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Hong Kong Pride 2025
Date: Nov 23, 2025 (Sun)
Venue: 8/F, The Wave, Kwun Tong
Time: 12nn to 7pm
Activity: Rainbow Market
Free Admission
Theme Introduction
This year’s Hong Kong Pride theme is “No Frame for Love.”
Humanity weaves frameworks to comprehend our world, sorting all existence into neat categories. Yet the world pulses with diversity, overflowing with exceptions that our finite wisdom cannot capture. To mistake our constructed frameworks for absolute truth is the height of arrogance and prejudice.
Humanity weaves frameworks to comprehend our world, sorting all existence into neat categories. Yet the world pulses with diversity, overflowing with exceptions that our finite wisdom cannot capture. To mistake our constructed frameworks for absolute truth is the height of arrogance and prejudice.
We are beings sculpted by emotions, and our connections bloom in infinite varieties: the tender bonds of family, the warmth of friendship, the deep connection between kindred souls. Through history’s long arc, love has flourished between women and men, between women, between men, embracing transgender hearts and those who transcend gender boundaries. There is no frame for love.
Hong Kong Pride 2025 embraces “No Frame for Love” to inspire each soul to release rigid frameworks, cast aside prejudice, and witness love’s magnificent spectrum.
May every form of love find recognition and celebration. May we all stand proud in love’s embrace.
Key Visual
Frameworks can illuminate understanding or forge invisible prisons. Humanity’s story unfolds through the eternal dance of building and breaking boundaries. Our visual soars with astronauts—dreamers who shattered the framework of earthbound existence to touch the stars.
Human essence holds boundless possibility, yet society’s frameworks cage our imagination and stunt our authentic growth. The visual breathes life into diverse souls—different genders, ages, loves, and origins—astronauts piercing the heavens, angels dancing between dimensions. We invite you to discover yourself within this tapestry, to define your own truth through the power of imagination.
Hong Kong cradles our vision: her embracing harbor, the golden warmth of public housing towers, gleaming commercial spires—all painting our city’s rich complexity and evolutionary journey. From humble fishing boats through industrial transformation to our modern metropolis—each chapter written by generations bold enough to break confining frameworks. A cargo vessel reminds us that Hong Kong transformed from a secluded fishing village into a cosmopolitan crossroads of cultures.
May our Hong Kong shatter frameworks around human rights, celebrate diversity, liberate love, and walk hand-in-hand with global progress.
About the Illustrator
Kaden LH
The author works as a consultant in engineering and Digital(Modelling and AI) field. For many years she has also been passionate about volunteering in LGBTQ+ performing arts and graphic design, hoping to help promote diversity in her own way.
Kaden has participated in the Lgbtlovefree drama and their web series “Rebound”, the Pridelab Gaming series, as well as designing key visual, poster and souvenirs for various pride events. Her works are known for a style that combines clean but powerful colors and shapes, presenting deep stories and core themes in the most intuitive way.
For example, in this piece, Kaden uses the inspiration from Michelangelo’s classic fresco “The Creation of Adam”, while preserving elements of the original background, she reinterpreted it through a new era and diverse perspectives, thereby expressing the idea that love can no longer be confined by old frameworks.
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Highlight of the Year - Same-Sex Partner End-of-Life Issues
Regardless of gender or orientation, who doesn’t dream of forever when beginning a serious relationship? No one enters love expecting it to end.
Japanese films romanticise “dating with marriage in mind,” yet Hong Kong’s same-sex couples cannot even aspire to such dreams, denied not only marriage, but even partnership registration. This extends far beyond romantic ideals; it strikes at the heart of fundamental livelihood security.
Death brings humanity’s deepest pain. Beyond overwhelming grief lies a maze of harsh realities: retrieving loved ones’ remains, arranging final ceremonies, navigating burial permits, settling estates. For legally recognised couples, one document opens every necessary door.
For same-sex partners in Hong Kong? Proving their relationship becomes an ordeal. Even with a will in hand, surviving partners face complex legal battles over inheritance. Families often challenge what the law refuses to acknowledge.
Death arrives without warning. Who plans for such a tragedy while immersed in love’s joy? Heterosexual couples gain automatic legal protection through a marriage ceremony. Same-sex couples must love while knowing they remain legally invisible.
Beyond life’s final chapter, living together presents countless obstacles. In medical emergencies, can partners visit or make critical decisions? Can they designate organ donations to each other?
Can working-class couples share medical vouchers in later years? If one faces imprisonment, do they receive spousal visitation rights?
Can couples who want to live together jointly apply for public or subsidised housing? Can they apply together as partners to benefit from housing policies like the “Starter Homes Project for Hong Kong Residents”?
Different government departments may impose different requirements for proving relationships. Without partnership registration frameworks, same-sex couples encounter administrative barriers at every turn. While individual policy changes help, they create inconsistent, privacy-invading obstacles.
Comprehensive legal recognition protecting same-sex couples’ dignity remains essential.
Hong Kong Pride 2025 spotlights “Same-Sex Partner End-of-Life Issues”, which highlights the urgent gap between love’s reality and legal protection, from death’s threshold to daily life’s challenges.
Love knows no gender. Protection should know no difference. Together, we march toward equality.