Rainbow of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港彩虹, j=Hoeng1gong2 Coi2hung4) is a non-profit organisation advocating for

LGBT rights in Hong Kong Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people in Hong Kong (a special administrative region of China) may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. History After the 1967 decriminalisation of homosexuality in the ...

. It was founded on 1 December 1991 and registered as a charity in 2011.

History

Rainbow of Hong Kong was originally based in

Mong Kok Mong Kok (Chinese language, Chinese: 旺角), also spelled Mongkok, often abbreviated as MK, is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward, Hong Kong, Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok. As one of the major sho ...

, but after one year of operation it moved its headquarters due to financial problems. Until 2007, the organisation received funding from the AIDS Trust Fund Council in the suburb of

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

, with much of the money going towards the development of Hong Kong's first social services centre for members of the LGBT community, which opened on 30 July 2007. The centre provides counselling, volunteer training, and LGBT awareness classes. p. 3

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* LGBTQ organisations based in Hong Kong LGBTQ political advocacy groups in Hong Kong Non-profit organisations based in Hong Kong Hong Kong voluntary organisations Charities based in Hong Kong 1991 establishments in Hong Kong {{HongKong-stub