Earlier I posted some comments in the Singapore forum about Elton John’s recent visit – and his comment that the city state should “sort out its gay rights.” It started me thinking about Hong Kong. For a long time, both cities had the same Victorian-era laws on its statute books prohibiting men having sex with men. Even in the early 1980s, Hong Kong seemed set on maintaining the status quo, fearful that any change would alienate many in the fairly conservative Chinese population. And that got m