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WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
Expert travel advice for travelers on LGBT Rights Taiwan and the gay-iendly environment gay travellers will enunter Taipei, Kaohsug and more... * taiwan accept lgbt *
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A survey by the nonprof Taiwan Equaly Campaign found that 60 percent of parents say they would accept their children beg gay, up om 42 percent last, who 2015 beme the first psychiatrist Taiwan to provi unselg for LGBTQ dividuals and their fai a public hospal, said he has been amazed by the shiftg attus toward sexual early ssns, “when parents heard the word ‘gay, ’ they would go nuts, ” he said. The Taiwan Equaly Campaign, which talli gay-iendly ndidat, unted more than 200 ndidat out of 1, 700 who have publicly exprsed support for LGBTQ rights. While Taiwan 2019 beme the first jurisdictn the regn to legalize same-sex marriage, the legal change stopped short of grantg full rights of adoptn to homosexual upl.
Wh such a liberal society, Taiwan mt be a good place for gay travellers, right? It’s te that is the most gay iendly natn Asia. The Legal Suatn In Gay Taiwan.
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Intertgly, homosexualy has technilly never been illegal Taiwan. The age of nsent is the same for both homosexual and heterosexual upl (16). The bate over same-sex marriage has been gog on sce 2003 when the executive branch of the ernment started to prepare legislatn to allow gay marriage.
Meanwhile, the movement support of gay marriage was growg Taiwan wh publicy events like the biggt same-sex weddg party ever 2011.
Taiwan’s lawmakers have passed a same-sex marriage bill, makg the first place Asia to brg gay marriage. * taiwan accept lgbt *
The panel of judg gave the ernment 2 years to legalize same-sex marriage, which would make the first untry Asia to legalise gay marriage. The good news is, acrdg to a 2016 study, tolerance towards homosexualy Taiwan creased 132% between 1995 and 2012 and Taiwan’s reputatn as the most gay-iendly untry Asia is certaly more than jtified by this and s thrivg gay muny. However another study showed that Taiwane people were ls likely to be tolerant of gay members of their own fay wh 38.
7% sayg they uldn’t accept a homosexual fay member. This shows that there are still some graed prejudic and a certa amount of misunrstandgs about the gay muny – sadly somethg reflected the 2018 referendum rult. So What Do This Mean For Gay Travellers?
Although there are challeng for LGBT cizens, gay travellers to the untry n feel nfint that they’ll fd a warm wele, some great gay nights out and the biggt gay scene all of Asia. It’s been this way for years, to be hont, but only recently has bee an ternatnal LGBT travel statn and gay travellers should feel enuraged to vis and lend support.