Gang Li is a journalist and a senior activist in the Shanghai LGBT community. He is notably a senior volunteer and member of the Council of Leyi Shanghai since 2005, he has been the Director of Shanghai Aishang LGBT since 2010, and was one of the main organizers of Shanghai PRIDE 2012. He occasionally acts as a project manager and a trainer in media skills for an LGBT grassroots activism organization in the Shanghai and Guangxi districts.