Posts tagged parent

Keyboard Warrior | Politics dividing generations. We keep wasting time — whose fault is it?

Keyboard Warrior is a post-80s HongKonger who became a fulltime housewife in June 2019. Due to the anti-extradition movement, her relationship with her family changed drastically. Her husband has very different values and she reconsiders whether she should have children under the current situation in Hong Kong.

Barry | My mom would ask me if I have a girlfriend, and if I have a boyfriend.

Barry is in his 50s, and is working in public relations for an international brand. He married his husband, Fred, in Canada 10 years ago and they have been together for over 20 years. They own a gay bar in SOHO, Hong Kong. Barry has come out to his family, friends and colleagues with one regret. Find out why he regrets not coming out to his mom before she passed away in 2002.

Family, Identity, LoveWe Are HKers25 March 2020gay, LGBTQ+, comingout, parent, mother, motherandson, sexuality, identity, regrets, spirit, vision, relationshipComment

Candy | A single mother - “As a mother, of course I am very worried; but as a Hongkonger, I have to let him go out.”

He was once soaked in blue dye from the water cannon. I was miserable. That’s my son! I don’t want him to get hurt. Yet I know that I can’t stop him from heading out just because he is my son. What about someone else’s son?

Family, PoliticsWe Are HKers24 November 2019candy, tangerine, christy, single, mother, son, parent, love, family, christian, australia Comment