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Hong Kong and the Early Gay Liberation Movement 香港與早期的同志解放運動

Date : 2019-01-23

Time : 12:30 - 14:00

Venue : Rm 109, Chen Kou Bun Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Daniel Tsang (Honourary Research Fellow, University of Hong Kong, and Former Fulbright Research Scholar, CUHK)

Registration: https://bit.ly/2V49s7t

Abstract:

Dan Tsang uncovers the little known early history of activists from Hong Kong active in gay liberation in post-Stonewall North America, notably Ng Siu-ming (who wrote under pen names). A Hong Kong native himself, Tsang would be an early advocate for gay rights in print in Hong Kong English-language media (the Star and Far Eastern Economic Review). He helped organize the Asian contingent at the first National March on Washington on Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979.Tsang suggests the Hong Kong connection actually goes back decades earlier, to early German sexual emancipationist Magnus Hirschfeld, whose life partner since the 1930s was a Hong Konger, Li Shiu-tong.Tsang situates the activism in historical context, while focusing on the coalition building that was essential in the early movement for sexual liberation.

Speaker's Biography: Daniel C. Tsang was a visiting Fulbright Research Scholar from 2017 to 2018 at Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, researching how protest culture in Hong Kong is being preserved. He is also an honorary research fellow at HKU's Public Opinion Programme. A Distinguished Librarian Emeritus at University of California, Irvine, he was there for over three decades, where he was also in charge of web archiving political literature, including the 2014 Umbrella Movement. His research has interrogated social science data as well as sexual liberation movements. A magazine he founded and edited, Gay Insurgent, was in 2018 featured in an NBC television documentary, ‘We’re Asians, Gay & Proud’. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Homosexuality and on the advisory board of Gale's Archives of Sexuality and Gender.