On May 17, Taiwan beme the first Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Many hope this will further the gay rights movement across Asia.
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- SGAPORE REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- ELECTN OF GAY LAWMAKER JAPAN SPURS HOP FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
- WILL VIETNAM BEE FIRST ASIAN NATN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?
- TAIWAN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIRST PLACE ASIA TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. THEN THGS GOT PLITED.
SGAPORE REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay upl. * asian countries that legalized gay marriage *
REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File PhotoLIMA, July 21 (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated.
Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay. However, 61% disapproved of gay people public Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years.
ELECTN OF GAY LAWMAKER JAPAN SPURS HOP FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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The move at a moment of change for LGBTQ rights Asia: even as natns like India–whose Supreme Court crimalized homosexualy 2018–have expand rights, others cludg Malaysia, Indonia and Bnei have cracked down. ) The social scuffle me amid a wave of censorship of LGBTQ subjects on social media Cha, where homosexualy is legal but same-sex marriag are not. REUTERS/Fele Lim/File PhotoSINGAPORE, Nov 29 (Rters) - Sgapore's parliament on Tuday crimalised sex between men, but, a blow to the LGBT muny, also amend the nstutn to prevent urt challeng that other untri have led to the legalisatn of same-sex mov e as other parts of Asia, cludg Taiwan, Thailand and India are regnisg more rights for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny.
WILL VIETNAM BEE FIRST ASIAN NATN TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?
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"We will try and mata a uphold a stable society wh tradnal, heterosexual fay valu, but wh space for homosexuals to live their liv and ntribute to society, " Home Affairs Mister K. MANILA- If love is possible outsi marriage, then why is the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) muny still seekg the legalizatn of same-sex marriage? Falcis, who had scribed himself as "an open and self-intified homosexual, ” was behd the petn seekg legal regnn for same-sex marriage, argug that parts of the Fay Co vlate homosexuals' right "to found a fay" as protected unr the 1987 Constutn.
Acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign, a US-based LGBTQ advocy group, only 32 untri around the world regnise gay marriage. Gay marriage was regnised by a urt lg only 10 untri.
TAIWAN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIRST PLACE ASIA TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE. THEN THGS GOT PLITED.
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UNITED STATES: In 2015, the US Supreme Court a 5:4 lg regnised gay marriage.
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Thirty-two stat had already regnised gay marriage before the lg. Even before a natnal law was passed, several ci and lol uns had allowed civil unns for gay upl.
(Photo by Rodrigo Rey Mar/AFLO) TOKYO (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Japan’s first openly gay male lawmaker said on Tuday he believed the untry would legalize same-sex marriage, months after Taiwan beme the first place Asia to allow gay Ishikawa, 45, was elected to parliament’s upper hoe on Sunday, on a platform llg for marriage equaly, wh the ma opposn Constutnal Democratic Party, also the party of Japan’s first openly LGBT+ lawmaker, elected 2013.
A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay upl. * asian countries that legalized gay marriage *
”Japan’s laws on LGBT+ issu are relatively liberal pared wh many Asian untri, wh homosexual sex legal sce 1880, but beg openly gay remas largely marriage is illegal and Japan’s prime mister, Shzo Abe, has opposed efforts to legalize marriage is legal 27 untri, as well as Taiwan, which Cha regards as a wayward provce. “We now have an openly gay guy parliament, but at the same time we still have the strongt party which is...