The first Gay Games in Asia are fostering hopes for wider LGBTQ inclusion.
HONG KONG — Soccer 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 moving to Hong Kong from Britain in 2016, Benjamin, 33, met her true love in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city. But local laws, recognizing only heterosexual marriages, forced the couple to travel to the British Embassy in Vietnam to get married in August.
acceptance in Asia is still lower than in the rest of the world and that it’s important to make sexual minorities visible in the community. “Biases come from misunderstanding or stereotypes,” Lam said. “Bringing different people together, you are able to break down stereotypes.” But organizers have faced various challenges since winning the bid to host the games in 2017.
activism is a rare spot that is still making considerable progress in Hong Kong under a government crackdown on its civil society. 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.
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