Xiaomingxiong (traditional Chinese: 小明雄)(1954–?) is the pen name of Wu XiaoMing (Ng Siuming, 吳小明), also known as Samshasha, is a veteran Hong Kong gay right activist and one of the first authors to study the history of homosexuality in China. Biography Xiaomingxiong was born in 1954 in Hong Kong to Chinese parents emigrated from the mainland. His father owned a wood cutting factory but went bankrupt during the second world war when the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. At a young age, Xiaomingxiong was exposed to a variety of political, cultural, and religious identities, being interested in Christianity and colonial Britain while also reading books on Communism and Socialism that were banned in Hong Kong at the time. Xiaomingxiong finished high school at the age of sixteen and went to the United States for university education in 1971. His arrival at Louisiana and later Austin, Texas at the University of Texas at Austin coincided with the advance of the Sexual Revolution throughout the Western world. It was there that he met fellow students who self-labeled themselves as gay and came across the first wave of gay liberation writings. Though Xiaomingxiong read about gay life through books, it wouldn't be until after graduation in 1975 during a brief stay in Hong Kong that he began exploring his sexuality. In 1976, Xiaomingxiong went to New York to pursue a graduate study in geology, in hopes of returning to China and finding oil. His attention was, however, quickly diverted to the vibrant post-Stonewall New York City. In the years that followed, he explored first hand various aspects of the new urban gay lifestyle, interviewing first generations of gay bookshop owners, gay parents, homosexuals from different races, etc. In 1978, Xiaomingxiong met with Daniel Tsang in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They later recorded the first interview in Cantonese on gay liberation in 1979. In June 1979, Xiaomingxiong travelled to the White House along with Third World gay and lesbian delegates, representing Asian Americans. There, he met with Midge Costanza, Assistant to the President for Public Liaison of President Jimmy Carter, pushing for anti-discrimination legislation and raising concerns regarding the United States immigration procedures. At the end of 1979, Xiaomingxiong returned to British colonial Hong Kong, where homosexual acts were still illegal and punishable by life imprisonment. He was quick to discover the one and only local underground gay bar at the time, the Dateline, through the then