Today, Taiwan celebrates the first same-sex weddings in Asia. As of 10 am local time, 166 same-sex couples had already registered their marriages
As of 10am, 166 same-sex couples had already registered their marriages across Taiwan, according to the island's Interior Ministry.But just kilometers away, in the city's outer suburbs, emboldened opponents of marriage equality announced to the press that they would create a new political party to fight for a ban on same-sex marriage at the 2020 election.
He signed the first Xinyi same-sex couples' marriage registration as a witness, with the same pen Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen used to sign the marriage equality bill just one week ago. Tsai gifted it to Chi with a handwritten note."May love unite everyone on this land," the president wrote.Friday was technically Wang's third"wedding" to her wife, Huang.
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