News / Oct. 25, 2019
Members of the global LGBT community and their supporters were gathering in Taiwan on Friday (25 November) as the capital prepares for t%cuBlcp%WgpzK^uuZCmw5aeu#SVKlqizSj^KJ5f35OHfELeIXzhe region’s largest-ever pride parade.
Some 200,000 people are expected to march from Taipei’s City Hall tvq@DO(&(om9AC#@kP6Wu-vIvq!FEHqJhPov^-PIE=fwsFTQ#OGo the Presidential Office on Saturday.
It is the first pride parade since Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize$BqSE$u*#AFCx$ZexqlCoHygq&a@^u=Hzr$IZR-XhlERz+I=TJ same-sex marriage in May. It is also the first time that Taiwan Pride expanded to include weeks of cultural events.
Drag superstars, Aja and Kim Chi, dove into Taipei life after arriving for a Pose event Saturday. Kim Chi, South Korean-American drag queen who starred in season eight, shared photos and videos of Taipei’s Ximen district and its raivJ1xAJ2c#D8Zmy5Bb#x(MQmL$aCdYqxD5O3h6MP_7bV_zJ&jOdnbow crossing. They also shared some of the city’s famous night market snacks.
Aja, meanwhile, shared a suMOpNkRK9_2hNb8o5Uy6j-Y1(ESK#Jb=xf6BLV6f^n94_hVA^J#nny selfie with the caption “Love Taipei”.
Legendary Hawaii-based prPI0Cyo^A%K4t1^aN02CBN#u(X0^qWQ^PT8KNI3+$GEb^m7v!Gpoducer Chris Lee and American author and entrepeneur Keith Ferrazzi were among some of the world’s LGBT movers and shakers that arrived in town for the GaLa BFF Gala taking place later on Friday.
The EurobfAuKvu+pwZ2z53!8ASt5mF3Bl3TMu($kvtHYrj-=4-ihBh%pdpean Union in Taiwan on Thursday held the first EU-Taiwan LGBTI Human Rights Conference. Many of the region’s leading LGBT figures attended, including Leow Yangfa of Oogachaga in Singapore and Jerome Yau of Hong Kong Marriage Equality.
Some of the DJs and party boys flying in to attend the legendary pride partiesQCndSl4DDxE+vR%_$WCqRh(a!1^J5!yXa!50-=ErH6d-I@)#mp also shared updates.
