Prof. Travis Kong is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Media, Culture and Creative Cities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. He mainly teaches sexuality, queer theory, media and cultural studies. His research specializes in Chinese homosexuality and masculinity, prostitution in Hong Kong and China, social impacts of HIV/AIDS, and transnational Chinese sexuality.
Kong is the co-editor-in-chief of Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society, the world-leading international journal in the field of sexuality. He is the sole author of Chinese Male Homosexualities: Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy (Routledge, 2011) [Chinese version:《華人男同志跨地域研究》(香港中文大學出版社, 2018)], 《男男正傳: 香港年長男同志口述史》（進一步多媒體有限公司，2014） (English version: Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken and Unforgotten, The Hong Kong University Press, 2019), and Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China (Duke University Press, 2023). To date, his articles have appeared in books, encyclopedias and journals, e.g. Body & Society, Gender, Work & Organization, Culture, Health & Sexuality, British Journal of Criminology, The Sociological Review, Qualitative Research, Men & Masculinities, British Journal of Sociology, Lancet and AIDS Care. Kong was the recipient of the Prism Award from the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (2014) and LGBT+ Advocacy Award from Community Business (2020) to recognize his long-term service to and research on the LGBT+ community in Hong Kong. The multi-awarded film Suk Suk (directed by Ray Yeung, 2019) is based on《男男正傳》(Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong).
Kong is a board member of the Hong Kong Advisory Council on AIDS (2017-2023), AIDS Concern (2000-2004; 2019-2023 [2021-2023 as chair]), and the Principle Investigator of HIV/AIDS Response Indicator Survey (HARiS) 2019-2020. He is also the founder of Grey and Pride (previously Gay and Grey, 2014-), the only NGO that serves and looks after the well-being of older LGBT+ in Hong Kong.