Ten LGBTQ+ couples tie the knot in Hong Kong to mark Pride month

(25 Jun 2024)
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Hong Kong - 25 June 2024
1. Various of LGBTQ+ couples on stage at group ceremony with audience of families and friends
2. Wide of LGBTQ+ couples at ceremony with official celebrant on screen via zoom from Utah in US
3. Various of couples exchanging vows UPSOUND (English): “Yes I do”
4. Various of couples exchanging rings
5. Lucas Peng and partner walking into room
6. Peng and partner reading vows
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucas Peng, 66, Singaporean businessman living in Hong Kong:
"I hope one day that everybody would accept the fact that love is not just between a man and a woman. It’s between two people who love each other. It doesn’t matter whether you are man and man, woman and woman, it makes no difference. It’s just two humans who love each other. That’s the key. That’s the important part. And to be able to publicly declare our love for each other today is a very important step for us, definitely.”
8. Pan from audience to group photo of couples and organisers
9. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Kurt Tung, organiser of ceremony:
“I hope to send a message to the public that there’s a group of people who want to get married but in Hong Kong there’s not yet a way to go to a marriage registry to get married, but there’s still this way we can offer for them to realise their dreams of getting married.”
10. Various of couples toasting each other with glasses of champagne
STORYLINE:
Ten LGBTQ+ couples tied the knot in a group ceremony in Hong Kong on Tuesday to mark Pride Month.
While same-sex marriage is not currently legal in Hong Kong, the couples took part in an event organised by a company that sources a “registered officiant” from the American state of Utah, via zoom.
Rings, kisses and vows were exchanged.
“I hope to send a message to the public that there’s a group of people who want to get married but in Hong Kong there’s not yet a way to go to a marriage registry to get married, but there’s still this way we can offer for them to realise their dreams of getting married," said ceremony organiser Kurt Tung.
Currently, Hong Kong only recognises same-sex marriages for certain purposes such as taxation, civil service benefits and dependent visas.
Many of the government’s concessions were won through legal challenges in recent years.
AP video shot by: Alice Fung
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