Senor Chang's "Ha, Gay!" | Know Your Meme

Contents:

• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED TAIWAN, BUT CHALLENG REMA FOR FULL EQUALY
• SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
• SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"
• JOE CHENG B: EX-GIRLIEND ARIEL L, WIFE, MARRIED, MILARY SERVICE, GAY, DATG

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

In the week that Taiwan’s hight urt ma history by approvg same-sex marriage, we look back at five films wh lbian, gay or bisexual them Che language cema + FOLLOW. Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda.

“One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man. The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. Taiwan is now the first untry Asia to legalize gay marriage.

Wh three petg versns of the gay marriage bill discsed this week, marriage equaly advot lled for two ralli to take place. However, cross-uc nsultatns broke down relatively quickly, wh KMT legislator Lai Shyh-bao, who proposed the versn of the bill often viewed as least favorable to gay marriage attemptg to exclu same-sex upl om the fn of marriage, leavg the ssn. Speakers clud legislators supportive of gay marriage om the DPP and NPP.

GAY MARRIAGE LEGALIZED TAIWAN, BUT CHALLENG REMA FOR FULL EQUALY

Sam Yang of die rock band Fire EX attend, sgg a song supportive of gay marriage, as did Taiwane New Wave filmmaker Tsai Mg-liang, who gave a short speech. Relig thori supportive of gay marriage, such as reprentativ of the Tong-Kwang Light Hoe Prbyterian Church, and Reverend Joseph Chang, Taiwan’s first openly gay pastor, too, were prent. A memorial ceremony was also held for ceased members of the LGBTQ muny, such as Yeh Yung-chih, who killed himself 2000 at the age of fifteen bee he was bullied for beg gay.

SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT

Wh the livtream of the legislative ssn playg the background, durg the le by le review of the bill, when monstrators cheered when legislators supportive of gay marriage took the stage, such Huang Kuo-chang or Freddy Lim of the NPP, and booed when legislators opposed to gay marriage gave speech, such as Lai Shyh-bao of the KMT.

SENOR CHANG'S "HA, GAY!"

Jason Hsu of the KMT received a mixed rponse, given growg views that spe lip service paid to gay marriage by Hsu, he has primarily voted wh his party. The first was sponsored by legislator Lai Shyh-bao of the KMT, as backed by the Happs of the Next Generatn Alliance, a key force anizg agast gay marriage last year durg the referendum. The bill was seen as possibly nyg gay upl the right to adoptn altogether, claimg that “a same-sex fay member should sign documents wh the other same-sex fay member to exercise the right to jot ctody, ” but avoidg discsn of adoptn.

JOE CHENG B: EX-GIRLIEND ARIEL L, WIFE, MARRIED, MILARY SERVICE, GAY, DATG

In the past two years, anti-gay groups have been adamant on this pot, wh the view that if same-sex unns are admted to the legal fn of marriage, this would be disptive of the stutn of the fay. Articl rporated to the fal bill om the Executive Yuan’s versn of the bill specified that gay upl would not be allowed to jotly adopt children unls they are the blogil children of one of the members of the uple.