Judgment applied strictly to immigration, Chief Executive Carrie Lam adds, as she challenges openly gay lawmaker to prove city is ready for more change
The HRC Foundation’s Coming Home series is designed to help LGBTQ people live fully in their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and live fully in their religious, spiritual and cultural traditions.
By the time a modicum of acceptance by the outside world starts to arrive, we are visited with a plague. It is a plague of disease, and with our new president it continues to be a plague of hate.
They were wrong because they undermined the very essence of Pride; the freedom to be yourself, to identify how you want, to be respected and included like anyone else. They claimed to be speaking for lesbians, but they do not, they speak only for themselves.”
“As a barrister, I heard and uttered those terms without knowing what they truly meant, until I experienced countries where the rule of law does not exist, and the judiciary lacks the power or inclination to protect their own citizens equally.”
