Why Do People Need To Promote The Federation Of Gay Games?

The Gay Games was hosted for the first time by San Francisco in 1982. The purpose of it is to increase the self respect and confidence of the people of different sexual orientations, and to promote and earn respect from others. (Federation of Gay Games, Purpose and mission statement) Every four years, thousands of athletes from around the world participate in the Olympic Games, to achieve their goals of representing their countries. People from a variety of backgrounds are gathered in a place ready to compete and are welcomed, regardless of their skin colour, gender and sexual orientation, if so, why did people feel the need to separate some and promote the Federation of Gay Games? If equality is what they really want, isn’t separation quite
Hong Kong was nominated to host the 2022 “Gay Olympics” It was one of the cities they wanted to host it at, as they felt “it could ultimately choose the Asian city in a bid to shine a light on its poor same-sex rights record.” It is also the first and only Asian city to be nominated to host the competition. Hong Kong people believe that ‘the Gay Games needs to come here because we need to improve LGBT rights’. This was supported by Out in HK, an LGBT community based around athletic activities, it was founded in 2014 by Dennis Philipse, who believes the games would be of great benefit to the city. “LGBT issues in Asia are still a bit of a challenge legally, it is not on the same level compared to other places in the world. The gay games are a great opportunity for Hong Kong - it might change the city and the perception Hongkongers have towards the LGBT community.” Some Hongkongers clearly believe that the Gay Games would open people’s minds and acceptance towards gay people and make them feel included rather than feeling unaccepted. (South China Morning Post, Danny Lee) As Hong Kong is a part of china, and the 1 country and 2 systems still stands, china must have something to say about Hong Kong being nominated for the 2022 Gay Games. I believe that whatever hong kongers would feel towards this situation, positive/negative, we all speak for China, as Hong Kong is a part of
Everyone has their own reasons as to why they think they’re a victim of homophobia, but it's mostly because of religious beliefs, homosexuality isn’t the only issue, directed towards lesbians, lesbophobia, biphobia targets bisexuality and transphobia targets transgenders. These problems were rapidly increasing in the past few years, mostly in Asia. The Federation of Gay Games’ main targets is also to change these people’s minds about being gay, one of their main aims is also to make them truly believe that homosexuals aren’t bad people and that they are good human beings who are good at what they do and deserve the love and support from everyone, in order to feel better about themselves, homophobia has caused gay people to struggle opening up to their loved ones, and to be themselves. This could then lead to depression and anxiety. The Federation Of Gay Games has been a solution to these problems, it has changed people’s perspective and the way they see