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Drag in Hong Kong | 2019

Updated: Mar 17, 2021

"Drag" is about dressing up in opposite sex, is another identity of a person - the performer. Being an international city, Hong Kong is however still not so open to this subculture which is actually a pop culture in foreign countries like the US.

This documentary aims to raise awareness and introduce this group of minorities and sub-culture in Hong Kong. People usually misunderstand drag or even disgust about drag, but drag is a kind of art, performance, and representation of gender fluidity.

The topics of sexual orientation and gender identity have been much discussed in recent times. Most Western societies are now much more open to homosexuality than in the past. Due to the growing visibility of different lifestyle concepts in social media, the idea of a flexible identity spectrum for sexuality and gender is becoming more popular.


In 2015, the word of the year selected by the American Dialect Society is a singular gender-neutral pronoun, "they". This version of "they" is the one that a p