https://www.scmp.com/rss/323232/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The government is in a bind. On October 30, the Federation of Gay Games selected Hong Kong to host in 2022. The organisers of Hong Kong’s successful bid beat Washington and Guadalajara to win the event. The Hong Kong team sweated blood to achieve this, against the backdrop of an official indifference that masked hostility. In Washington and Mexico’s Guadalajara, the city mayors turned out to welcome the visiting inspectors from the Gay Games, pledging facilities, money and public support. Not so... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2118755/gay-games-2022-will-see-hong-kong-values-put-test?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2118755/gay-games-2022-will-see-hong-kong-values-put-test?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:15:00 +0000 Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World by Taras Grescoe St Martin’s Press Shanghai in the late 1930s perhaps comes closest to the sci-fi dystopias beloved of Hollywood, full of gilded, sophisticated inhabitants cut off from wasted badlands, served by an abject underclass living as far from the light of day as it does from the consciousness of its masters. Inside the self-policed boundaries of Shanghai’s International Settlement and its French Concession lay... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2009484/book-review-shanghai-grand-doomed-dystopia-distilled?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2009484/book-review-shanghai-grand-doomed-dystopia-distilled?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:45 +0000 By signing international conventions on human rights, the government has accepted the case for protecting the rights of all, including sexual minorities, against discrimination. Yet, it has enacted no supporting legislation due to, it says, a lack of consensus among Hong Kong people. But is the prejudice more easily found within official ranks? The government's rejection of a transgender person's application to marry made this plain. The woman, W, took the government to court but the High... https://www.scmp.com/article/974711/governments-own-bias-should-not-guide-policy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/974711/governments-own-bias-should-not-guide-policy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:00 +0000