LGBT Online Media, Marketing and Advertising

As part of our 2018 Hong Kong LGBT+ Inclusion Awards, Community Business is delighted to announce the finalists of our LGBT+ Public Champion Award. This Award aims to recognise a public figure (eg. politician, entertainer, athlete, government official, etc.) who has used their influence to promote LGBT+ inclusion in Hong Kong. Winner of this Award will be the one that receives the most votes from the general public in Hong Kong.

China's Spring Festival, which celebrates the lunar New Year, is the ultimate test for fledgling romances. A partner's invitation to meet family signals commitment; but for China's LGBT population, the holiday creates disproportionate stress. Only 5 percent of them have come out of the closet, and they are, as a group, under remarkable pressure to get married to someone of the opposite sex.

While businesses in China are embracing the ‘pink economy’, their human resources policies aren’t embracing LGBT rights

Chinese company Beijing Kunlun Tech has announced on Tuesday that it will acquire remaining 38.47% stake in the world's largest gay social network app Grindr for $152m.

A new business model is coming to China as entrepreneurs begin developing products for the rapidly emerging market. 

Zhu Qiming, CEO of mobile game developer Star-G Technologies, foresees rosy prospects for China's emerging "pink economy", a new business model that caters mainly to the lifestyles and demands of the LGBT community.