dunno where to put this,
feel free to move if wrong board.
a little background, probably. in this little fisherman's island called hong kong, we don't talk much about lgbt. half of us don't know about it, and the remaining half is against it because of religious roots. after the us legalizing gay marriage, we've got a little burst in conversation but it still left out transgender.
i did some research related to my homework and found a news article about bullying of lgbt youths in hong kong and it made me really upset.
when my teacher asked who would be interested in doing a show for "teen time" on the radio for RTHK, i volunteered and managed to convince all the other girls that volunteered for it to use "LGBTQIA+ in Hong Kong Youths" as our topic. eventually we got picked among four other volunteers.
it's a good thing that i got to do a radio section for something i think everyone should not feel prejudice against, but something happened during that threw me off track. during the actual recording (it's a pre-recorded show. it's not even aired yet, it's airing in three days), the DJ asked me of my "personal experience going down this road".
i. i mean.
i'm not actually completely out yet, at least not to my family. they had to sign a reply slip to even let me go and they know i'm doing this program. i don't want them to listen to it and.
regardless of whether or not the DJ "outed" me, i wouldn't want my family to listen to it anyway. they're really against the community.
but this entire thing where i had to answer this question (it was directed to me especially) made me not want them to listen to it even more. i answered it vaguely but i would be more precise if i hadn't panicked and feared of my family.
but i'm proud i did it.
hong kong needs to open up its mind a little more.
