"Imagine I'm a gay man. I come to work every week on a Monday morning and, as is normal, my colleagues say 'how did you spend your weekend?' I say 'I had fun, I was with my friend'... [thus] every Monday for six years, I lie about my identity and lie about being gay," said Shalini Mahtani, founder of Community Business, a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) .