Activists from the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights pose during a press conference in support of same-sex marriage in Taipei on Tuesday (Jan 21). Rights groups and gay couples called on Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen on to cement the island's reputation as a bastion of LGBT rights by recognising international same-sex marriages. - AFP
TAIPEH: Rights groups and gay couples called on Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday (Jan 21) to cement the island's reputation as a bastion of LGBT rights by recognising international same-sex marriages following her landslide re-election victory.
Taiwan is at the vanguard of the burgeoning gay rights movement in Asia and became the first place in the region to legalise gay marriages last year after a bruising political fight.
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