Mark your Calendars! PRIDE MONTH is here, but It shouldn’t just be in JUNE; it’s PRIDE ALL YEAR!
We’re proud to announce the Second PRIDE edition of Nerd Nite HK. Join us for an evening of engaging, thought-provoking talks covering gender, sex, and relationships. We aim to bring people together, challenge assumptions, and break taboos within the LGBTQIA+ community and beyond. Everyone is welcome.
Date: 16 July, 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Location: 13 Old Bailey Street, Central
Entry Fee: 150 at presale, 180 at the door (includes a welcome drink)
Link here for tickets: https://www.thepontiac.com/_paylink/AZ70Mwxz
Speaker 1: Small Luk
Instagram: @small.luk
Topic: Will you stand with Intersex?
Bio: Small Luk is an Intersex person from Hong Kong; she was born gender-ambiguous. She has suffered numerous painful surgeries and unwilling gender identity from non-consensual treatment and discrimination from a binary gender society.
During her childhood, doctors performed surgeries on her genitals over 20 times. When she was 36 years old, doctors found she is an Intersex with Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Small founded “Beyond the boundary-knowing and concerns Intersex” since 2010, asking society stop the genital-normalizing surgeries on intersex children, stop violence to Intersex, and educate the public know about intersex people.
Speaker 2: Shawn P Griffin
Instagram: @thebussybuilder and @shawnpgriffin
Visit: http://www.bussybuilder.com
Topic: Queering the Marketplace: How to Start a Gay-Forward Adult Brand
Bio: Shawn P Griffin is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and Board Certified Sexologist with 5 years of experience in the intimacy education space. He recently founded The Bussybuilder, and intimacy product and coaching company aimed at designing products for people with prostates.
He is also known as drag queen Poise’n Grace, a Nerd Nite alumnus who has performed in and produced drag shows since 2016, and is currently the Chair of Culture for the Federation of Gay Games.
Speaker 3: Brenton Surgenor
Topic: From Bad Boyfriend to Good Husband: what bad therapy, many trainings, and dozens of books taught me about love
Instagram: @brenton_surgenor
Substack: https://substack.com/@brentonsurgenor
Bio: Brenton Surgenor is a relationship coach, psychotherapist and certified sexologist who helps people explore relationship dynamics, intimacy and identity. His work brings together therapeutic training, practical experience and a grounded curiosity about how humans connect, miscommunicate and grow. In this talk, Brenton shares what bad therapy, many trainings and dozens of books have taught him about love — moving from being a bad boyfriend to becoming a better husband.