{"id":193,"date":"2008-12-20T14:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-12-20T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T19:01:37","slug":"hong-kongs-1st-official-gay-pride-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/20\/hong-kongs-1st-official-gay-pride-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s 1st Official Gay Pride Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-194\" title=\"hk_gay_1212\" src=\"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hk_gay_1212-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hk_gay_1212-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hk_gay_1212-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hk_gay_1212.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From fridae.com<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At last it has happened. Hong Kong&#8217;s first gay pride parade processed through the crowded streets of Hong Kong Island on the afternoon of Saturday 13 December. And it was a huge success. Some 1,200 men and women, young and old, mostly gay but with some straight friends too, marched for just under two hours from the assembly point outside the Causeway Bay MTR entrance in Great George Street, one of the most congested places on the face of the planet, straight along the major East-West thoroughfare of Hennessy Road to its final destination in the public Southern Playground near Wanchai\u2019s station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fridae.com\/newsfeatures\/article.php?articleid=2354&amp;viewarticle=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or the related article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1866308,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine&#8217;s site<\/a>. Also : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com.hk\/gay-lesbian\/features\/17293\/gay-pride-parade-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Out Hong Kong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fridae.com At last it has happened. Hong Kong&#8217;s first gay pride parade processed through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-news","category-gay-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}