All photos from the Opening Ceremony at Gay Games 2018 Paris
Regina Ip, the smart as a fox Executive Councillor who demolishes opponents without mercy, is showing a softer side. She is promoting Gay Games 2022, saying it will be good for Hong Kong*.
The city will host the 11th Gay Games in November next year if the virus crisis has ebbed. The last such games bringing LGBT competitors and performers together took over much of Paris three years ago. The Gay Games, begun 40 years ago as the Gay Olympics, will stage 36 sporting events with a festival of arts and culture plugged in. There will be a gala concert, LBGT art shows, six nights of performances on the Festival Village’s main stage, a media arts expo, International Rainbow Memorial Medley, presentation of a Names Memorial Quilt and a moving memorial service by Hong Kong’s Aids Concern, a spectacular opening ceremony featuring local and international artists with performances, lights and music at the Hong Kong Stadium, plus nightly cabaret shows and junk partying tours of Hong Kong harbour.
The organisers are seeking performers to come forward with the prospect of starring in the Gay Games Festival. You don’t have to be LGBT. They want drag queens, burlesque and boylesque dancers and performers who can light up a room by exotic pole dancing. Singers and musicians are asked to apply to join the Choir and Instrumental Ensemble. Also wanted are practitioners of ballet, hip hop, Chinese opera, martial arts and rhythmic movement story telling.
You can find out more by emailing hello@gghk2022.com or looking up the gghk2022 website or the Gay Games promoters social media pages. Also contact Pink Alliance Hong Kong, which is chaired by journalist Reggie Ho and headed by communicator Jerome Yau. Alliance company secretary is Gurkha Colonel Nigel Collett, author of one of the most explosive books published in the city, A Death in Hong Kong, which chronicled homosexuality and paedophilia at the highest levels of society in the 1980s.
*Sadly, Ms Ip’s more antediluvian colleagues in Legco weren’t so supportive. Prisclla Leung and Junius Ho, the two social inclusiveness dinosaurs, told the government to not support the Games in any way. Ho stated that Hong Kong should not accept the gay “dirty money”. On the other hand the Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, Ricky Chu Man-kin has urged people not to stigmatise the Games.
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