Government framework to recognise ‘core rights’ said to barely reach minimum ordered by court ruling
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.
“I was a student and he was a doctor, so it helped a lot,” laughs Wong, now a clinical psychologist.