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

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• GAY GAM REGISTRATN AT HISTORIC-LOW LEVELS, STG DOUBT ON EVENT’S FUTURE
• GAY GAM 11 HONG KONG 2023 MARKS ONE-YEAR UNTDOWN TO NEXT YEAR'S GRAND EVENT
• GAY GAM NAME MEXI A SEND HOST FOR 2023 WHILE STICKG WH HONG KONG

GAY GAM REGISTRATN AT HISTORIC-LOW LEVELS, STG DOUBT ON EVENT’S FUTURE

Gay Gam is Hong Kong’s chance to show the cy’s clivy – will regnise same-sex unns and legislate to protect LGBT rights?

Hong Kong is set to be the first Gay Gam host cy whout legal regnn for same-sex unns; lawyers fightg for LGBT rights believe hostg the gam will spur change, if for no other reason than that money talks Published: 7:15pm, 26 Apr, 2018 Updated: 4:22pm, 1 Jun, 2018 The rabow flag for the LGBT muny will be seen flyg durg the 2022 Gay Gam Hong Kong. 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.

GAY GAM 11 HONG KONG 2023 MARKS ONE-YEAR UNTDOWN TO NEXT YEAR'S GRAND EVENT

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 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. Hong Kong Gay Gam anisers refe to ncel event face of activists’ warng that anyone cricisg Beijg or cy uld be arrtedThe Hong Kong anisers of the Gay Gam have rejected lls to ncel the ne-day event schled for the tumn after five human rights activists acced the team of “aligng wh pro-thorarian figur persecutg” gam, to be held Hong Kong om November 3 to 11, will be the first Asia.

GAY GAM NAME MEXI A SEND HOST FOR 2023 WHILE STICKG WH HONG KONG

“We are eply sadned by unfound slurs ma about the tegry of the Gay Gam Hong Kong Team, and totally reject any lls to ncel the Gam, ” the anisers said on their webse on Monday. ”The statement followed a mentary published on a sports news webse last Wednday, which five human rights activists ma their ll for the event Hong Kong to be ncelled bee “human rights ncerns are too great” Chan, Clark Lng, Lorrae Pan, Adam Nelson and Samuel Bickett, who lled themselv LGBTQ Hong Kong human rights activists, warned the mentary that the implementatn of the natnal secury law meant that anyone who cricised Beijg or Hong Kong and attend the event would risk arrt as soon as they entered the Kong’s Gay Gam anisers optimistic about turnout after Covid curbs lifted“This means that many LGBTQ athlet, cludg an untold number of LGBTQ Che, Taiwane and Hong Kong dissints, uld not even nsir attendg the Gam, ” they Taiwan Gay Gam affiliate had already pulled out of the event cg fears for athlet’ safety, they also acced the Game’s learship team of havg “aligned themselv wh pro-thorarian figur rponsible for wispread persecutn agast the people of Hong Kong”.

”Gay Gam Hong Kong (GGHK) said: “In Asia, there are not as many opportuni for the LGBTQ+ muny to e together on such a sle, and participate an ternatnal event that celebrat the spectm of inti not always accepted broar society. ”Gay Gam ‘will brg out Hong Kong’ thanks to sponsors after no public fundg“This is the reason why our 200+ strong passnate and missn-driven team of volunteers are workg so hard to brg a succsful Gam to Hong Kong. “LGBTQ+ people Hong Kong, while not havg some of the rights that other untri and regns have implemented such as gay marriage, are able to live openly and thentilly public and there are no safety ncerns for LGBTQ+ tourists beg themselv while visg the cy.

”Lam and GGHK’s director of marketg and public relatns, David Gao Zhan-peng, said they had been munitn wh many dividuals Taiwan who had exprsed tert takg part the vehement opposn to the Gay Gam, ol heads mt prevail“It’s a shame that the group Taiwan feel that they nnot jo, ” Lam said. 2022 Gay Gam: Hong Kong anisers strs need for more ernment support and venue bookg flexibilyWh 499 days to the 2022 Gay Gam Hong Kong – the first to be held Asia – anisers strsed the need for unyieldg solidary om the cy’s ernment and service provirs.

(From left) Gay Gam Hong Kong -chair Lisa Lam Mun-wai, founr and -chair Dennis Philipse, and Che Universy of Hong Kong assistant profsor of the Genr Studi programme and foundg director of the sexuali rearch programme Suen the 56 lotns blueprted, anisers have secured 21 private venu, wh the remag 35 Leisure and Culture Servic Department (LCSD) public venu still unnfirmed. “Those 21 venu clu for example the [Hong Kong] Rugby Unn which has Kg’s Park available; the sailg will take place Hebe Haven and Victoria Harbour; there will be nng lotns Sai Kung, Tai Po and The Peak, ” said event founr and -chair Dennis Philipse at a prs nference markg 500 days to Kong won the bid to hold the 2022 Gay Gam after applyg Lisa Lam Mun-wai said the openg ceremony will be at Hong Kong Stadium So Kon Po and the closg ceremony will be held at s arts and culture-promotg Ftival Village. “Then we’ll have a one-year untdown November, rec our 3, 000 on-se volunteers January and prepare to wele the Gay Gam November, 2022.

Photo: Handout“While we do have the support of many natnal sports associatns, we me to a ltle b of a tricky suatn when askg them to book the venu their name for the Gay Gam, which is not an event hosted by them. Asia has two-thirds of the world’s populatn, so if we say 5 or 6 per cent of them are LGBTQ+ dividuals, that roughly translat to 293 ln people – Hong Kong alone you’re talkg about 481, 000, ” Lam Hong Kong reprentative team legatn at the openg ceremony of the 2018 Gay Gam Paris.