Introductn In recent years, a “bs se” has emerged to argue that social polici and practic that exclu sexual mori are not only socially unjt but also enomilly stly for an anizatn and the society. This paper asks: an era of globally uneven sexual landspe, what are the nsequenc of non-clive polici and practic for the retament or attrn of sexual mory talents? Methods An onle survey wh 920 lbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people, one of the largt of s kd Hong Kong, was nducted 2016. Rults It was found that 52.5% had nsired leavg bee of the lack of LGB-relevant social polici. It was also found that LGB people who showed a sire and a need to accs LGB-relevant social polici, those who perceived LGB-relevant social polici as important, and those who were on higher e levels were more likely to have nsired emigratn. The top four untri that were named as sired migratn statns by the LGB people were Canada, Taiwan, the USA, and the UK. Conclns This paper s the term “gay bra dra” to nnect the rearch lerature on LGB-related social polici, sexual migratn, and bra dra. Policy implitns Differential treatment towards sexual mori is not only socially unjt but also means that the society would lose out on attractg and retag the bt homegrown talents.
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- “GAY BRA DRA”: HONG KONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE’S CONSIRATN OF EMIGRATN BEE OF NON-CLIVE SOCIAL POLICI
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- “GAY BRA DRA”: HONG KONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE’S CONSIRATN OF EMIGRATN BEE OF NON-CLIVE SOCIAL POLICI
“GAY BRA DRA”: HONG KONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE’S CONSIRATN OF EMIGRATN BEE OF NON-CLIVE SOCIAL POLICI
Not RWA uncl, but Indian lennials‘Gay bra dra’. Furthermore, Indian society is highly discrimatory when to the LGBTQIA+ muny and this has virtually ntributed to a new variant of bra dra famoly scribed as the ‘gay bra dra’. Members of this muny, owg to the homophobic treatment that is meted out to them, are often forced to choose a reer path that would take them out of the untry.
A study nducted by the Office of the Uned Natns High Commissner for Human Rights stated that people who intify as homosexual are four tim more likely to ntemplate or attempt suici while transgenr people are ten tim more likely to do so. A term that has been gag populary amia is ‘gay bra-dra’. Khav Suri; the executive director of Lal Hotels, is openly gay and has been a long-term monogamo relatnship wh a French bsman.
It also seeks to ntribute to the body of rearch on gay and lbian migratn by studyg a non-Wtern ntext.
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Such a human rights ame broans discsns about lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people out to a wir humanarian ncern and nnects the cln of LGB people society wh the cln of other socially margalized groups such as women and people livg wh disabili, among others, whose rights have also been vlated. Buildg on such a mol and employg a fixed effects regrsn approach and a newly created dataset—Global Inx on Legal Regnn of Homosexual Orientatn (GILRHO)—Badgett, Waaldijk, and van r Rodgers (2019) found that an addnal pot on the 8-pot GILRHO sle of legal rights for LGB people is associated wh an crease real GDP per pa of approximately US$2000. Much of the earlier work the geography of sexuali rearch lerature foced on how gay and lbian people often moved om ral areas to the margal neighborhoods the urban re bee of the perceptn that g out and inty velopment would be ma easier (Hubbard, 2008; Knopp, 2004; Wton, 1995), rultg urban gay and lbian rintial neighborhoods ci (e.
More recently, rearch has found that gay and lbian people do not only move unidirectnally om ral to urban areas search of perceived sexual eedom, but they also unvered the diversy the lived experienc of sexual mori ral areas (Ann & Redl, 2012; Gorman-Murray, 2009; Gorman-Murray, 2007; Lewis, 2012; Wat, Jsop, & Gorman-Murray, 2011). It has also been shown that the draw of lbian and gay people to the ci n be more readily found among sgl as pared wh those who have a partner and cid to move together (Wimark & Östh, 2014).
However, a major limatn is that most prev nceptualizatns of gay and lbian migratns have been veloped Wtern untri, as poted out by Knopp (2004), Gorman-Murray (2007), and Mole (2018). As Wimark (2016) noted:The studi have ntributed nsirably to knowledge on gay and lbian migratn but have only placed dividuals the historil and geographil ntext of the Wtern, gay-liberated world.
“GAY BRA DRA”: HONG KONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE’S CONSIRATN OF EMIGRATN BEE OF NON-CLIVE SOCIAL POLICI
Ls is known of the migratn of gay men and lbians other ntexts where fay formatn (e. Through same-sex marriage, adoptn and assisted fertilisatn) rema unavailable to gay men and lbians (p. Some exampl of such rearch clu those that studied LGB people who had migrated om plac such as Iran, Pakistan, and Nepal to the Persian Gulf (Mahdavi, 2019): LGB people who had moved om Asia to Atralia (Yue, 2016), Che gay men who were transnatnally mobile (Kong, 2011), lbians who had moved om Cha to Atralia and other Wtern untri (Kam, 2019), and a small number of Indian migrants Sgapore who intified as gay (Baas, 2019).
Send, seeks to ntribute to the body of rearch on gay and lbian migratn by studyg a non-Wtern ntext. In Hong Kong, homosexual acts private between two nsentg male adults over the age of 21 were crimalized 1991.
The age of nsent was equalized between heterosexuals and homosexuals 2006.