{"id":72803,"date":"2025-07-09T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/09\/hong-kong-same-sex-lgbtq-marriage-equality-registration"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:00:42","slug":"creating-inequality-hong-kongs-same-sex-marriage-registration-proposal-criticised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72803","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Creating inequality\u2019: Hong Kong\u2019s same-sex marriage registration proposal criticised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government framework to recognise \u2018core rights\u2019 said to barely reach minimum  ordered by court ruling<\/p>\n<p>Dino Wong and Geoffrey Yu count themselves among the lucky ones. The Hong Kong couple were married in 2019, in a hastily arranged trip to the US Pacific territory of Guam. The couple, who had been together for about five years and wanted to marry, were spurred to take advantage of amended tax-exemption laws that finally recognised same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a student and he was a doctor, so it helped a lot,\u201d laughs Wong, now a clinical psychologist.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/09\/hong-kong-same-sex-lgbtq-marriage-equality-registration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government framework to recognise \u2018core rights\u2019 said to barely reach minimum  ordered by court rulingDino Wong and Geoffrey Yu count themselves among the lucky ones. The Hong Kong couple were married in 2019, in a hastily arranged trip to the US Pacifi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73,1272,48,2729,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-equal-marriage","category-guam","category-hong-kong","category-lgbtq-rights","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72804,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72803\/revisions\/72804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}