Hong Kong lawmakers have objected to government facilitation of the organisation of Gay Games Hong Kong (GGHK), which was set to be held in the city next year. Pro-establishment lawmakers Priscilla Leung and Junius Ho said on Wednesday that the government should not help the organiser of GGHK in securing venues for the games’ sporting events.
Junius Ho certainly has a lot to say about “dirty money”, when he can barely make a statement without insulting public dignity. Why is he still in office again? If this is him “respecting one’s sexual orientation”, then he needs a refresh on what is respect and how to utilize it. By all means, personally don’t profit a cent off the Gay Games in Hong Kong, please, I’m sure the organizers will be glad of it too.
Priscilla Leung’s statement is just plain confused:
“The public support for the government is already low enough, if the government supports such controversial events, I believe the majority of Hong Kong society will protect the heterosexual marriage system.”
What. Marriage and relationship recognition equality, low public opinion for what is currently a primarily unelected, extended term government, and a sporting event that’d be a tourism boost. They have very little to do with each other at all except in this fantasy of a beseiged conservative stance. Yet again, people use the concept of maintaining “neutrality” when their intentions are anything but.
LGBTQ people aren’t going to get married in HK en masse during the event unless something dramatic happens in the next year. The only reason why people would demonstrate for equity while there is because the SAR government and judicial system continues to explicitly move at a glacial pace; dragging itself through legal precedent by design, like so many things, out of fear of overstepping some political red line when the growing majority of the population is supportive of legal recognition.
Again, a daily reminder for people and especially this sort of social conservative to stop thinking about or publicly expounding on the consensual sex and relationships that don’t involve them.
