A same-sex couple hold hands during an event to raise awareness of gay rights in Hong Kong on May 25, 2019. Philip Fong/AFP/Getty Images Hong Kong —

With their home city Hong Kong unable to honor their wish to get married, Dino Wong and his boyfriend Geoffrey Yu flew more than 2,000 miles across the ocean to Guam to tie the knot in 2019.

The trip wasn’t cheap – $5,000 just for the return flights, two nights of accommodation and the registration fee – but it was the best option they could find, with Hong Kong not recognizing same-sex marriage.

It wasn’t their dream wedding – they exchanged vows in the corridor of a nondescript government building on the western Pacific island, without the presence of parents and guests.

There was a post-wedding party later in Hong Kong, but the

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