Anthony Wong

Hong Kong pop star comes out..... Hong Kong pop singer Anthony Wong has come out as gay – making him the only second openly gay high profile singer in the territory after the late Leslie Cheung to do so. After years of public speculation, Hong Kong pop singer Anthony Wong Yiu Ming (黃耀明) has officially come out as gay. He made the announcement during the last night of his four-night concert series as the lead singer of Tat Ming Pair (达明一派) on Monday. The duo first starting performing in the 1980s and was popular throughout the 1990s. Anthony Wong Wong’s declaration has made him the first high profile Hong Kong artist to come out in publicly since the late pop superstar Leslie Cheung who came out in a documentary Yang ± Yin in 1996. Cheung was 46 when he committed suicide in 2003. On the first night of his concert series at the Hong Kong Coliseum, the 49-year-old is said to have hinted about his sexual orientation when he played a video in which he was seen caressing a man. It asked: “Is Anthony Wong a tongzhi?” When the media asked him about his sexuality after the first night, Wong denied he was a tongzhi (同志). Read more at Fridae.asia