As the Tokyo Olympics draw to a close, the gay sporting world will be keeping its eyes firmly on East Asia when the Gay Games 2022 head to Hong Kong next year.As sports fans from across the globe tune into the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the organisers of the 11th Gay Games, scheduled to open in November 2022 in Hong Kong, are hustling to ensure the event runs without a hitch.
However, fervent opposition from some Hong Kong legislative members as well as pro-democracy activists, is making the mission of staging the first Gay Games in Asia an increasingly challenging task.Within Hong Kong itself, the Games have become a lightening rod for the homophobic rhetoric of some Legislative Council members such as Junius Ho, long a divisive figure in.