Hong Kong Pride · 香港同志遊行

Pride 2025 was held on Sunday 23 November as a Rainbow Market, from noon to seven in the evening, at The Wave, a co-working space in Kwun Tong (4 Hing Yip Street), under the theme "No Frame for Love" and with nearly 40 stalls from LGBTI associations and businesses, and talks. It was Pride's first event after the Legislative Council rejected the same-sex partnership registry in September. It wasn't the plan. The Hong Kong Pride Committee had wanted to go back outdoors with a festival on the Kwun Tong promenade, planned for 29 November, but the venue operator told it the site was unavailable due to urgent construction work required by the Buildings Department; the department later clarified that no such work was scheduled that day, the operator spoke of a "misunderstanding" and, after weeks without a reply to its request to postpone, the committee cancelled it and stayed indoors, as in 2024, when Pride was also a market under the theme "Our Voice, Our Rainbow". The last street parade was in 2018, with 12,000 people according to the organisers. In 2019 the police did not authorise the march and a rally was held; 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic. Volunteers quoted by The Young Reporter, of Hong Kong Baptist University, summed up the climate: with the event indoors and coverage lasting only a few days, "there's no longer a platform in the public discourse to speak to society about LGBTQ affairs".