🏳️‍🌈 Kaohsiung Asia Pride Games 🏳️‍🌈

Asia Pride Games 2026 Kaohsiung is a major international event that brings together sports, culture, and equality in action. Athletes, artists, scholars, and advocates from across Asia and around the world will gather in Kaohsiung to celebrate diversity through sport. By centering athletic competition, the Games respond to values of gender diversity, bodily autonomy, and human rights—creating a space where everyone can step onto the field with confidence and pride.

The Games span a wide range of programs, including multi-sport competitions, cultural performances, academic forums, and city-based travel experiences. Together, they showcase the vitality of LGBTQ+ sports in Asia while strengthening connections between the city and diverse communities. Inside the venues, competition is fair and spirited; beyond them, the Games open up spaces for dialogue, understanding, and inclusion.

As a key city in southern Taiwan, Kaohsiung embodies openness and action, shaped by its harbor-city character. Asia Pride Games 2026 Kaohsiung is more than a sporting event—it is a process through which pride is seen and put into practice. Here, sport becomes a language, the city becomes a partner, and the world is invited to release its energy, run toward pride, and take the field together.

💪 Organizer | Taiwan Gay Sports & Movement Association (TGSMA) 💪

TGSMA is dedicated to advancing gender equality and social dialogue through sport. The association has long focused on participation rights and visibility for LGBTQ+ and gender-diverse communities within sporting environments. Through organizing competitions, training programs, public forums, and cross-sector collaborations, TGSMA works to create safe, friendly, and inclusive spaces where people of all bodies, identities, and life experiences can participate freely. Starting from sport, the association continues to connect culture, education, and city-based action—ensuring that equality is not just a slogan, but something practiced and seen in everyday life.

🏙️ Co-organizer | Kaohsiung City Government 🌃

The Kaohsiung City Government has long advanced diversity and equality through concrete action. As one of the first cities in Taiwan to implement same-sex partnership registration, Kaohsiung has embedded gender friendliness into public policy and municipal governance from the ground up. From institutional innovation to everyday administration, the city continues to build an environment where people of all gender identities and ways of life can live with security and dignity. By co-hosting Asia Pride Games 2026 Kaohsiung, the city brings equality onto the playing field and onto the international stage—demonstrating Kaohsiung’s open spirit and commitment as a friendly city, where pride is not only welcomed, but actively supported and realized.