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Thousands Join Pride Parade in Taiwan as Country Remains Corona-free for Over 200 Days
News 18Taiwan is at the vanguard of the burgeoning gay rights movement in Asia and became the first place in the region to allow same-sex marriage in May 2019 after a bruising political fight. “I was hoping to be able to attend all of my friends’ wedding banquets and that’s why I am dressed like a wedding banquet.” Saturday’s parade came a day after two same-sex couples joined a mass wedding hosted by the military for the first time in another gay rights landmark in Asia. Over 4,000 gay couples have registered their marriages since the law change took effect last year when Taiwan became the first place in the region to allow same-sex nuptials. “Taiwan is Asia’s first, which means most of our neighbouring countries do not recognise same-sex marriages,” Chien Chi-chieh, the secretary-general of the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights, told AFP.
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