{"id":1154,"date":"2014-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/essay-democracy-and-sexual-minorities-from-society-to-church-in-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:54:12","slug":"essay-democracy-and-sexual-minorities-from-society-to-church-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/essay-democracy-and-sexual-minorities-from-society-to-church-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"\uff3bEssay\uff3dDemocracy and Sexual Minorities &#8211; From Society to Church in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, 'Century gothic', sans-serif;\">KUC Anniversary Forum: Democracy and Social Minorities (May 30, 2014)<br \/>A Paper presented by Pearl WONG, Executive Secretary of Queer Theology Academy<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, 'Century gothic', sans-serif;\">Democracy and Sexual Minorities &#8211; From Society to Church in Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, 'Century gothic', sans-serif;\">This paper examines the challenges of sexual minorities in Hong Kong, and argues that the rights of social minorities will be better protected through a more democratic political system in our community. The struggles of sexual minority Christians in Hong Kong will also be addressed, and finally, how these Christians are participating in the local movement for democracy will be presented.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, 'Century gothic', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, 'Century gothic', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/qtj3\/images\/May-30-KUC-Forum-Presentation-Paper.pdf\">Full text here<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, 'Century gothic', sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\">\n\t    <span>Tags: <\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/qtj3\/index.php\/en\/component\/tags\/tag\/pearl-wong\" class=\"\" rel=\"tag\">Pearl Wong<\/a>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/qtj3\/index.php\/en\/component\/tags\/tag\/kowloon-union-church\" class=\"\" rel=\"tag\">Kowloon Union Church<\/a>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/qtj3\/index.php\/en\/component\/tags\/tag\/kuc\" class=\"\" rel=\"tag\">KUC<\/a>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/qtj3\/index.php\/en\/component\/tags\/tag\/sexual-minorities\" class=\"\" rel=\"tag\">Sexual Minorities<\/a>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/qtj3\/index.php\/en\/component\/tags\/tag\/church\" class=\"\" rel=\"tag\">church<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUC Anniversary Forum: Democracy and Social Minorities (May 30, 2014)A Paper presented by Pearl WONG, Executive Secretary of Queer Theology Academy Democracy and Sexual Minorities &#8211; From Society to Church in Hong Kong This paper examines the challenges of sexual minorities in Hong Kong, and argues that the rights of social minorities will be better&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/essay-democracy-and-sexual-minorities-from-society-to-church-in-hong-kong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qtacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}