Author: Benita Chick

Benita Chick is a “slash worker” and a firm believer in diversity and inclusion. She works on youth policy-to-stakeholder engagement during the day, and in her spare time runs her first-of-its-kind LGBT in the City Tour, as well as LGBT campaigns on homophobia as the Director of Pink Alliance’s IDAHOT (International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia) campaign.
Dispatches

A Tour of Lesbian Hong Kong

Benita Chick

Names, places, and the stories behind them – Benita Chick

The alley is dark and a bit creepy, and it doesn’t look like it leads to anywhere. Concealed within it is a secret spot that is largely unknown to both locals and foreigners: T:ME Bar.

Probably my favorite spot in Hong Kong’s Central district, right off Hollywood Road and next to Club 71 in Pak Tsz Lane Park, the bar is a hidden gay sanctuary that makes for a particularly enlightening pit stop. In my experience, four out of five Hong Kongers don’t know it exists, or that it relates closely to Chinese history.