News / Oct. 25, 2019
At least 2,025 same-sex couples have got married in the five months since Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage, a cabinet spokesperson 6Kb+PVVRBp4Rhsjeg9nuiFZQx(TIAZ5306f(*0AAVnI(7IvU6*said on Friday.
It comes as Taipei prepares for tKhcNAMd-EN1Gni0g5cH!95=eXxdL*Ms9zmOY)#)-AoS@cf^%Dlhe largest-ever LGBT pride parade in Asia.
Some 200,00ZS^7tD8Jhf(c8Qv#-h=iVybtS-*tkn&se%CG)Sd)gg+0z#H(-C0 people are expected to march from Taipei’s City Hall to the Presidential Office on Saturday.
It is the first pride parade since Taiwan became the first coun*@jm03pvkwHhdQ@%f37JZ$Tps*MDN05jazfF9W%N5KL0nVMaPhtry in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in May. It is also the first time that Taiwan Pride expanded to include weeks of cultural events.
For the first time, the parade will start from Taipei City Hall Pl2^-dD2Tj6RjiuieAlZRhlrZs5)dZ*4GRH@sM00r5R8q8vQ*%Hoaza and travel across the city to the Presidential Palace at Ketagalan Boulevard.
A newly-installed rainbow crossing has proved popular with Taipei citizens, with people sharing photos and selfies of the crossing on social med%qe(J=0FzezsbFCv_d&L7Fe3g8cEI2PpueGGpic!GjM&dp1LL$ia.
Google this week updated the maps for the city to show the parade route in rainbow cofU&we44iP^eK435*qI4%QPvW2iZ(AJVPKBSg#!Vc$e9DI-wRRelors.
First in Asia
After court rulings, referendums, and drama !eADdVx)aA3sutUMAq&uWqA*ftKFI*nilP-7qMFkMs-%B*+!aEin parliament, Taiwan on 17 May finally enacted a bill that allowed same-sex couples to marry.
But, it does not afford them exactly the same rights as ss8BbDzrTLTlBFFhn#IQwrxmurVH$El=S@_tNYoOp(OH-SgZu+8ame-sex couples. For example, same-sex couples may only adopt a child if it is the biological child of one of the couple.
The bill also limits transnational marriages. For a foreign national to marry in Taiwan, same-sex marriage must be legal in their own countryKr8_mv764ggi%G^nJL1#0+YJW%cmTQ6FT)9Ro0QOzfT&12Q*=T.
Taiwan’s parliament approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage on Friday 17 May. It voted in favor of a government bill offering same-sex couples similar rights to opposite-sex couples after years of court rulings, referendums, and tussles in Ja@B5NEH6*@pCfC^9wRt4oPQw@x8)_Y#(mX#8d1tiYYxF2Ugujparliament.
The government bill, which largely avoids the term ‘marriage’, has been labeled a compromise by LGBTI rights campaigners.
In 2017, the country’s highest court ruled the Civil Code was unconstitutional for failing to recognize same-sex marriage.
But, in a bitterly-fought referendum, most Taiwanese citizens opted for a sepa+#$mmsy&p)o@Ace@)vH!lf!1%Z#guQI&W@knFtTxs2@x4&oyp&rate marriage law rather than changing the civil code which would have brought genuine equality.
LGBTI rights campaigners accus#MrnIo&Try5oxZSUesm%6fDo@4DdpB8zC#tH1a4%+wBdWJ=pGded conservative and Christian groups of running a well-funded campaign of hate and scare-mongering.
The crucial 4th line of the bill passed with 93 lALh)4W5GwUDYLN@evKF5BV#W(mjr*8dSb0qmwcUmxPTjmLbDldawmakers voting for the bill, 66 opposing, and 27 abstaining.
