In 2017, a urt had given the ernment two years to create a legal amework for gay marriage. On Friday, lawmakers passed the most progrsive of three bills.
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- 'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' ELUS TAIWAN, A YEAR AFTER ASIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG
- TAIWAN-MAU GAY UPLE MARRY AFTER LEGAL VICTORY
'HAPPILY EVER AFTER' ELUS TAIWAN, A YEAR AFTER ASIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG
Taiwan’s lawmakers have passed a same-sex marriage bill, makg the first place Asia to brg gay marriage. * taiwan gay marriage *
Lawmakers Taiwan have approved a bill legalizg same-sex marriage, a landmark cisn that mak the self-led island the first place Asia to pass gay marriage legislatn.
Although the island has a large gay muny and s annual gay pri para is the biggt Asia, the issue of marriage equaly has bterly divid Taiwane society. In recent months nservative groups have mpaigned agast same-sex marriage reform, phg for a law that would see gay marriag refed as somethg closer to same-sex unns. Wu Tzu-an, a 33-year-old gay artist om Taipei, was among the crowds outsi the parliament celebratg Friday.
TAIWAN-MAU GAY UPLE MARRY AFTER LEGAL VICTORY
When Taiwan beme the first place Asia to allow same-sex marriage last year, universy profsor Lois was among thoands of gay people who cheered and waved rabow flags on the streets of the pal Taipei. * taiwan gay marriage *
In 2015, veteran gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei – who has spent 30 years fightg for marriage equaly – filed a requt to the Constutnal Court askg for a lg on an article the island’s civil statg that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Taiwan’s gay marriage opponents seized the opportuny to put forward a referendum askg voters whether they agreed wh same-sex marriage. In maland Cha, where homosexualy is legal but prejudic and discrimatn agast LGBT people persist unr Communist Party le, an thor of same-sex erotic fictn was sent to jail for 10 years November. In April, the ler of the ty, oil-rich kgdom of Bnei announced he would troduce ath by stong for those nvicted of gay sex.
In Indonia, clg secularism has led to epeng discrimatn agast the untry’s gay, lbian and transgenr muni. Last year, two men acced of beg gay received 87 lash for gay sex the untry’s nservative Aceh provce.
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More than two dozen untri around the world allow gay marriage, acrdg to Pew Rearch. 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.
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Taiwan beme the first place Asia to allow same-sex marriage last year, universy profsor Lois was among thoands of gay people who cheered and waved rabow flags on the streets of the pal Taipei. A year on, she and her Che partner still have no right to legally wed, like hundreds of such upl who face rtrictns over ternatnal same-sex Taiwan marked a year sce passg s historic law a regn where gay rights progrs is slow, LGBT+ rights groups have lled for a full regnn of same-sex marriage to protect upl and fai. MISSING PIECE OF PUZZLESame-sex marriage beme legal Taiwan on May 24 last year, a week after s parliament passed a bill offerg siar protectns of marriage to gay people uld only marry foreigners om a untry where same-sex marriage is also legal, and adopt children blogilly related to at least one of ’s partner, who is om Cha where gay marriage is not regnised, had to give up her job 2017 and bee a stunt so she uld stay on the island and raise their three-year-old son.
I want - my wife, my son - to be regnised as a fay, ” Lois told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by phone om seen as a bean of liberalism Asia, Taiwan beme the first place the regn to allow gay marriage, although the move faced stiff opposn and divid the self-led than 3, 500 gay upl have married sce last year, official figur show.