Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury law | South Cha Morng Post

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Current statSce Sep 25, 2017Banned (1-year ferral) Only banned is gay men. A urt se filed by a gay widower highlights Hong Kong’s nservative approach to genr.

Cred: Wikimedia Commons/ doctorhoIn Hong Kong, a gay widower takg the ernment to urt over the right to be regnized as his late hband’s spoe is sparkg discsns over the cy’s antiquated approach to genr. We hope the ernment n take actn to implement the anti-discrimatn law and maral law for same-sex marriage and related benefs, so [Li and Ng] and others do not have to take actns personally to fight the whole system, ” said Alv Chng, a gay activist and eelance social worker. Dpe the veneer of a vibrant gay scene and Hong Kong’s reputatn as a smopolan cy, the cy remas relatively nservative on genr issu, and there is wispread stigma agast the LGBTQ+ muny all spher of muny members are vulnerable to prsn and other mental health issu, which have been exacerbated by the panmic, activists say.

”Although homosexualy has been crimalized for almost three s, nversn therapy is still not formally banned the cy, said Chng, who is a survivor of nversn therapy. Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury lawHong Kong anisers of the Gay Gam are unr prsure om some foreign officials and participants who say they will stay away om the November event to avoid “accintally” breachg the cy’s strict natnal secury ncerns have e on top of recent lls by some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong for the event to be ncelled, and protts by nservative only four months to go, the anisers have pledged to prs on, hopg to h their target of 3, 000 participants for the first edn of the gam to be held Gam ambassadors pose for a photo March. ChengUned Stat-based Shamey Cramer, an honorary life member of the ternatnal Feratn of Gay Gam, told the Post there was “a safety and secury issue” Hong Kong.

Unpackg Hong Kong’s natnal secury law, 3 years onTaiwan’s gam affiliate said earlier that would not take part the Hong Kong event, wh Kev Yang Chih-chun, print of the Taiwan Gay Sports and Movement Associatn, also cg worri about the natnal secury secury mister Rega Ip, nvenor of the cy’s key cisn-makg body, the Executive Council, dismissed the ncerns raised by those refg to travel to Hong Kong.

”The Gay Gam, which began 1982, are held every four years. The last edn was held Paris 2018, attractg 10, 000 Hong Kong event was meant to be held last year, but was postponed bee of the Covid-19 panmic, and the targeted number of participants was entire st would be fund by sponsorship, private donatns and participant fe, the anisers one-year untdown to the Gay Gam is held November.

Among those attendg were Hong Kong Gay Gam -chair Alan Lang (fourth om left), top adviser Rega Ip (centre) and Lan Kwai Fong Group chairman Allan Zeman (fourth om right). ”The natnal secury law targets secsn, subversn, terrorism and lln wh foreign Kong Gay Gam anisers refe to ncel event face of activists’ warngMeanwhile, there have been at least three recent stanc of nservative groups prottg agast the gam beg held Hong rint who preferred to rema anonymo told the Post he saw three lol women who gathered near the Polytechnic Universy mp on July 13 nounce the Gam. “There was a woman wh a megaphone sayg the Gay Gam and gay culture were poisong teenagers Hong Kong, ” he other protts volvg small groups happened this month, cludg one near the Legislative Council prottg at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR statn on July 12 had a flier claimg they had support om 15 groups, mostly associated wh anisers said they did not believe the protts signalled growg opposn.

Homosexualy is not nsired a crimal act and 2018, Hong Kong’s top urt, for the first time, allowed a spoal visa for a same-sex partner. Gay nightlife Hong Kong is que vibrant wh most bars and clubs loted the Central District entertament zone (SoHo) and Shng Wan’s Jervois Street on Hong Kong Island. “The Legislative Council yterday passed legislatn crimalisg homosexual acts between nsentg men aged 21 and above private, endg an 11-year bate, ” ran the openg l of a story the South Cha Morng Post on July 11, 1991.

A review of the law had been prompted by a ment ma 1980 by then ernor Murray MacLehose, who said he favoured a change the laws on homosexualy. In July of that year a Law Reform Commtee group was set up to nsir the crimalisatn of gay sex.

In a report published on June 8, 1983, remend that nsentg adults, male or female, should be allowed to rry on wh their sex liv document clud a parative law review of siar populatns wh majory Che muni and found that “the prohibn of homosexualy law only me about Brish loni wh the onset of the Victorian era, and [... ] the only Che societi left wh anti-homosexual laws are Sgapore and Malaysia, due to their history as Brish loni.