Football enthusiast Gina Benjamin is not just training for victory in the upcoming Gay Games in Hong Kong, but she's also on a mission to help push for legal reform for samesex marriage.After moving to Hong Kong from Britain in 2016, Benjamin, 33, met her true love in the...
HONG KONG — Football enthusiast Gina Benjamin is not just training for victory in the upcoming Gay Games in Hong Kong, but she's also on a mission to help push for legal reform for same-sex marriage.
After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, the nine-day event will host about 2,400 participants from some 40 territories. They will compete in a range of games, from tennis and swimming to culturally rich activities like dragon boat racing and mahjong. The scale of the event also falls short of the organizers' original goals set in 2016. They had aimed to attract 15,000 participants and inject 1 billion Hong Kong dollars into the economy.
Others are hesitant to visit due to the risks posed by a Beijing-imposed national security law that has jailed and silenced many activists following 2019 pro-democracy protests. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, will not send a national delegation to Hong Kong out of safety concerns. Over the past year, the city's courts have ruled that full sex reassignment surgery should not be a prerequisite for transgender people to have their gender changed on their official identity cards and backed the granting of equal housing and inheritance rights for same-sex couples married overseas. Hong Kong is now moving toward a framework for recognizing same-sex partnerships following a landmark ruling in September.
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