HONG KONG DOMESTIC WORKERS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET

HONG KONG: Working long hours away from home for low pay and little time off, life is tough for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, but for some the city has brought sexual liberation unheard of in their home countries.

To Jenny Patoc, a 41-year-old Filipina helper, Hong Kong is the place where she met her girlfriend 15 years ago and where they unofficially tied the knot at their own “holy union” ceremony last year—despite the semi-autonomous territory’s failure to recognize same sex marriages.