LGBT Rights Movement in Hong Kong
See also: LGBT social movementsIn the early 1990s, the first two LGBT rights groups, HORIZONS and the Ten Percent Club, were established. Today, several organizations, most notably Rainbow Action and Tongzhi Culture Society exist to campaign for LGBT rights and to organize various public educational and social events.
The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau established in 2005 ,The Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Unit, to enhance the equal opportunities for people of different sexual orientation and transgendered persons.
Currently, as of August 2012, The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau have been sponsoring a series of Public Service Announcement broadcast through radio station about the need of equal treatment when employing anyone who is homosexual.
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