Homosexuality was decriminalised in 1991. It is now legal for two Gay men over the age of 21 to have consensual sex, in private. This follows British law. It is not,, and never has been, illegal for two women to have sex.
As far as is known there are no specific laws preventing anyone with AIDS or HIV from travelling to Hong Kong.
Contacts Magazine Island Publishing Co Ltd., G.P.O. Box 13427, Hong Kong Tel.: 2817-9447 Fax : 2817-9120 E-Mail BandT@HK.Super.Net.Launched in February 1993, this A4-size monthly publication is the only title being issued by the newly-emergent gay community. Published on the 15th of each month with, at present, 32 pages of local and international gay news, reviews,stories, features a nd personal advertisements. Annual 12-issues subscription costs HK$300 for local residents and US$70 for overseas residents, including airmail postage.
AIDS Concern Service Centre, Block F 17B 3, Lok Man Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Tel.: 2898 4411. Hotline Tel.: 2898 4422 (19:00-22:00 Thursday and Saturday for Cantonese and English enquiries).Founded in 1990 by volunteers, this organisation favours direct action (such as handing out free condoms) to alert people to the dangers of unsafe sex. Their booklet, Family Guide to HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong is published in English and Cantonese, the group is presently making a documentary film about AIDS in the Territory.
AIDS Counselling & Health Education Service Tel. : 2780-2211 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Monday-Friday for Cantonese and English enquiries).A branch of the government's Medical & Health Department which gives counselling, runs a Social Hygiene Clinic, and offers anonymous and confidential HIV and AIDS tests. Recent free pamphlets include should I do something about an HIV test? and Use condoms for safer sex.
H.K. AIDS Foundation 5/F Shaukiwan Jockey Club Centre 8, Chai Wan Road, Shaukiwan, Hong Kong Fax: 2560 4154 Tel.: 2560-8528. Hotline Tel.: 2513-0513 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday for Cantonese and some English enquiries.
AIDS Hotline Tel.: 170-222-171 (free 24-hour infoline)An English-language AIDS information and advice telephone service.
Horizons G.P.O.Box 6837 Hong Kong Mon-Thu, 7:30-10:30 Tel.: 852-2815-9268Switchboard type service run by volunteers, which offers advice and counselling to local and visiting gays, lesbians and bisexuals on topics ranging from coming out and personal relationships to health awareness, safe sex and coping with career and family problems. Holds a Tea Dance 1st Sunday of the month at Club 97.
Long Yang Club - Hong Kong
Queer Sister Hotline: 2314-4348 open every Thursday 7:30pm-10:00pm Queer Sister is working towards the following goals: 1. promote visibility of queer women in Hong Kong. 2. provide service catered to their needs, no matter what their social,economic or religious status, such as Telephone Hotline, Counselling, educational workshops, consciousness rasing, etc.. 3. advocate equal legal and social treatment of queer women. 4. encourage the creation of new cultral and societal values which allow humans of all sexual identites to pursue their full potential, and 5. raise the awareness in society regarding the extreme stigmatism and destructive ostracism queer women face on a daily basis
Satsanga
Satsanga Hotline: (852)2314 1921
Fax: (852)2735 8881
Correspondence Address: PO Box 92128 TST Hong Kong
Founded in 1993, was registered in 1994 as a non-profit-making
organization dedicated to serving lesbians and gay men. The organization
is funded by public donations.
Ten Per Cent Club P.O.Box 72207 Central Post office Kowloon Tel.: 852-2314-8726 Only answered between 7:30-9:30 pm on Wednesdays.A voluntary group consisting of only Chinese speakers. Organises some outdoor events for members. Does some political lobbying.
Babylon (AW) 5/F Kingspower Commercial Bldg 409413, Jaffe Road Wan Chai Tel: 2573 3978 8 00 p.m. 2 00 a.m. Large Karoake lounge CIRCUS CLUB GMW 11/F Ying Kong Mansion 2-6 Yee Woo Street Causeway Bay from ** Circus Club is located in a commercial building famous for attacks by gangs and it happened once when I was in HK but fortunately not on the day I went there; the club is in fact a Karaoke lounge and quite nice but just mainly for guys like to sing in front of the public and mainly Chinese. Club 97 (AW) 9, Lan Kwai Fong Central, Hong Kong Tel: 2810 9333 Only Gay on Friday evenings 6-9 p.m. and 1st Sunday of the month. (Tea Dance with Horizons.) A bar full of atmosphere and charm. Good attentive bar service. Dateline Cafe (AW) 3/F Chatham Centre 11-15 Chatham Road Tsim Sha Tsui Tel: 2316 2962 5.30 p.m. 2 00 a.m. Well appointed bar with loud music and expensive drinks. Especially popular with young Chinese crowd CE Top (AW) 9/F 37-43 Cochrane Street, Central, Hong Kong Tel: 2544 3581 7 00 p.m. 1 00 a.m. Well appointed bar with disco and separate Karoake room. Only go if you like really loud Karoake! H20 2/F Hop Yee Bldg; 474-476 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay Tel: 2834 6451 5.00 p.m. 3.00 a.m. Karoake bar with the tables so close together you can still hear whats being said at the table next to you! Mainly Chinese. Members Connection (GM) 3/F, 5 Lan Fong Road, Causeway Bay Tel.: 890-7731 7 00 p.m. 3 00 a.m. Very small and sleazy Karaoke bar in Causeway Bay. Mainly Chinese. Propaganda(AW) 30-32, Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong Tel: 2868 1316 Monday to Saturday. (Closed Sundays, except when Sunday is the eve of a public holiday). Happy Hours : 9.30 10:30 p.m.. Disco Hours 9:30-03:30 a.m. Entrance fee HK$60 weekends. Hong Kongs largest and best disco club. Packed at weekends. from ** Propaganda is a place I have been before; it is still the only 100% gay pub and disco in HK (others have only 1 gay night or so) and because of it it is quite expensive especially after 10.30pm on Fri and Sat nights; better be there early (start from 9.30pm) to enjoy the cheaper drinks during happy hours; I went there before the Dragon Boat Festival and it charged $100 for the entrance fee (included a drink) and I found it very unacceptable (the notice on the entrance counter for that fee was newly posted and it did appear beforehand). What can we do, there is no place to be a subtitute for it (very good for cruising :))??? Petticoat Lane (AW) 2, Tun Wo Lane, Central, Hong Kong Tel: 2973 0642 12 noon 3 p.m. 7 p.m. 2 am An intimate though small bar with a good choice of food and drinks. Members only but overseas visitors welcome. Wally Matt Lounge (AW) 9, Cornwall Avenue Tsim Sha Tsui Tel 2367 6874 6 00 p.m. 3 00 am. Wally Matt has been around for a long time; one glance will confirm that its a really dated, dirty and uncomfortable bar. Added to this is the quite obnoxious smell of greasy food. Despite or perhaps because of this it is still popular with locals and vi sitors. Be prepared for slow and slovenly service. Yin Yang Club (YY) (AW) 24-30 Ice House Street Central Tel: 2868 4066 10.00 p.m. 3 00 am Disco bar with separate Karoake room. Special theme nights every nightThursday is Gay night. Not very popular with the Gay crowd. Poor bar service. Baths, Gyms, Saunas AE (GM) 1/F Kwong Ah Bldg 114, Thomson Road Wan Chai, Hong Kong Tel: 2591 0500 2 00 p.m. 1 00 am. Uninspiring cheaply decorated place. Mainly Chinese. BA (GM) 1/F Flat D, Cheung Hong Mansion 25-33 Johnston Rd. Wanchai, Hong Kong Tel.: 527-7073 2. 00 p.m. 2 00 am. One of the original saunas, clean and well run. from ** BA sauna is very bad, very dirty (in the toilet) and very small. Bobson Club (GM) 3rd Floor, Flat D, Ma's Building, 35-37 Hankow Road, Kowloon Tel: 2376 2208 3.30 p.m. 1 00 a.m. Small but very friendly, clean. Drinks and food available. Central Escalator (GM) 2/Fl., Cheung Hing Comm. Bldg., 37-43 Cochrane Street, Central, Hong Kong Tel.: 2581-9951 1 00 p.m. 1 00 am. Small friendly and very popular with locales and tourists, steam and sauna, Drinks and food available from ** Central Escalator is the best sauna among all those I visited; it has a lot of European clients and the place is immaculate and clean and I like the Karaoke rooms and it is very good. Game Boy's (GM) 2/F 324 Lockhart Rd., Wanchai, Tel: 574-3215 12 noon 2 00 am. The biggest steam/sauna in HK, reflected in the unfriendly attitude of the staff, has been raided numerous times by police so extra care needed when using "rest-rooms". Mainly Chinese. JJ Park(GM) 3/F Flat A, Fairview Mansion, 51, Paterson Street, Causeway Bay Tel: 2882 2399 3. 00 p.m. 1 00 am. Mainly Chinese but a few foreigners. from ** JJ Park is good and charges less after 9.30pm. KK (GM) 16/F, Block A, Fuk Kok Bldg., 19-21 Jordan Road, Kowloon Tel 2388 6138 2. 00 p.m. 2 00 am. Drinks and food available. Larger than usual sauna with Karoake room. Mainly Chinese. from ** KK is located on the top floor of a commercial building and you have to walk 1 floor up after taking the life to the top floor (that the lift can reach) and it is mainly pretty middle-age to old age Chinese and it is OK. Rome Club (GM) 2nd Floor, Chap Lee Commercial Building, 27 Ashely Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Tel.: 2376-0602 3 00 p.m. 12 00 midnight Unfriendly and to be avoided! Mainly Chinese. Yuk Tak Chee G/F 123, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon Tel: 2393 9505 12 noon 12 midnight Old, poorly decorated and dirty. Mainly Chinese. from ** there is another gay (or gay mixed ) pub at Wydham Street near to Propaganda and it is called Simm (or something like that) and it is mainly Europeans but not good for cruising because it is very bright inside. Hotels & Guest Houses Babylon Villa 29, Lower Cheung Sha Lantau Island Tel: 2980 2872 Any of the larger hotels will allow guests to entertain visitors in their rooms. from ** Babylon Villa is located at Lower Cheung Sha and is operated by a Beglian guy and he is very sincere in showing me the rooms (3 in total) and everyone has a different color scheme and the front room has got a spectacular ocean view and the place is small but immaculate and clean. I may go back next time to visit him. Shopping Fetish Fashion 1/F 5260 Lynhurst Terrace, Central Tel: 2546 5188 Leather and rubber clothing and accessories for women and man. Gear 4, Anton Street, Wan Chai Tel: 2527 1557 Overpriced and overrated beach and gym wear for man. Splash! 1/F Wah Fung Bldg; 245251, Lockhart Road, Wan Chai Difficult to find medicore mens wear shop.
Best times after 8.30 p.m and before closing. Pacific Place Shopping Mall, MTR Admiralty Times Square Shopping Mall, top floors. MTR Causeway Bay Oceon Terminal Shopping Centre 3rd Floor MTR Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon Park Swimming Pool MTR Tsim Sha Tsui Beaches Middle Bay South Bay Road, Hong Kong Mainly frequented by Gay men, especially at weekends. The rocks Middle Bay Area between Middle Bay and South Bay. Some nude sun-bathing (illegal) and action in the bushes (also illegal). Approach from South Bay Road. Steep path on the right-hand (sea side). South Bay South Bay Road, Hong Kong Clean, sandy beach. Good fro making contact. No action. Also used by straights. Cheung Sha Beach Lantau Island Middle Bay is now so well-known that it is dangerous. For safety's sake it is better to make the 1-hour trip to Lantau Island and walk to the rather remote Cheung Sha Beach. There are, in fact, two beaches - known as Upper and Lower Cheung Sha beaches t he most exciting cruisey spot is between the two, where there are few outsiders and where police patrols are rare and therefore unlikely to disturb nude sunbathers and Gay couples.
GM = Gay men only GMW = Gay men and women AW = All welcome G/S = Gay & straightThanks to Barrie Brandon (voices2@netvigator.com) who originally created this file and let me put it on this site.
Thanks also to Apple from HK and to John Pielsticker of Dallas who added some information.