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Hong Kong moves forward
Advocate, The, Sept 27, 2005
China has been taking only small steps toward gay equality in recent years. So it came as quite a surprise to both gay rights activists and antigay conservatives when Hong Kong, over which China has administrative power, leaped forward when its second-highest court on August 24 struck down laws banning gay sex. Articles both lauding and condemning the move covered the front pages of prominent Hong Kong newspapers.
The ruling was "worth supporting and affirming" because gay people "aren't perverted," wrote the Apple Daily. But the Ming Pao Daily denounced the court's reasoning, saying its protection of a sexual minority could "quickly proceed to the stage when the court makes same-sex marriage legal."
* In a sign of increasing visibility, gays marched in Hong Kong earlier this year.
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