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Taiwan's Constitutional Court made a landmark ruling in 2017 to legalize gay marriage and ruled its decision must be implemented within two years.Ĭonservative and religious groups mobilized to oppose amending the Civil Code and comfortably won a series of referendums last November in which voters rejected defining marriage as anything other than a union between a man and a woman. Organizers estimated at least 170,000 people attended Saturday's festivities.īut the issue of same-sex equality has deeply polarized society. In the last decade Taiwan has become increasingly progressive on gay rights with Taipei home to a thriving LGBT community and increasingly large pride marches. I feel very proud we are the first in Asia to do so," he added. "Taiwan made huge progress in legalizing same-sex marriages. "I support marriage equality because it is a basic human right," Henry Wu, a heterosexual teacher who brought his five-year-old son to the march, told AFP. "I am very moved that people around the world are joining us," the 31-year-old said.īehind him passed a stready stream of color, from dancers with gym-honed bodies, to unicorn floats and rainbow balloon arches. "I am very excited because it's the first pride parade after same-sex marriages are recognized and I got married," said Shane Lin, who became one of the first to wed his partner in the days after the new law came in. Over 2,000 couples have since wed, many of them taking part in Saturday's festival.