Hong Kong Gay Games Becomes City’s Latest Covid-Zero Casualty

The organizers of the 2023 Gay Games in Hong Kong will likely move events away from the city, where the government’s adherence to strict quarantines and travel bans has strangled the tourism industry.

Guadalajara, Mexico, will now be “presumptive co-host” of the games, the Federation of Gay Games and the Hong Kong organizing committee said in a statement. “Faced with continued challenges brought on by the Covid pandemic, with the desire to ensure more participants can join the Games regardless of their locations, GGHK recently proposed the concept of a co-hosted event to the FGG,” Lisa Lam, co-chair of Gay Games 11 Hong Kong 2023, said in the statement.