The vote made Taiwan the first place in Asia with a comprehensive law both allowing and laying out the terms of same-sex marriage and followed two decades of campaigning. We took a big step toward true equality, and made Taiwan a better country.”On May 17th, 2019 in #Taiwan, #LoveWon. 🏳️‍🌈 — 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen (@iingwen) May 17, 2019At least 20 same-sex couples are planning a mass marriage registration in Taipei on May 24, a spokesman for the advocacy group Marriage Equality Coalition Taiwan said. Thousands of people, including same-sex couples, demonstrated on Friday morning in the rainy streets outside parliament before the vote. Mainland China, ruled by the authoritarian Communist Party, remains much more conservative and officials have repeatedly discouraged even the discussion of legalising same-sex marriage.

Source: Irish Independent May 18, 2019 01:41 UTC