Taiwan is now the first place in Asia to perform and legally recognize same-sex marriages. Here’s what you need to know to understand how these marriages were won and what it means for LGBT rights in Asia. In some countries, marriage reform comes with or because of huge generational shifts in public opinion. Similarly, in Australia’s nonbinding 2017 referendum, 61.6 percent of voters supported same-sex marriage; within two months, parliament passed a same-sex marriage law. Yet gay sex remains illegal in many Asian countriesAnd yet LGBT rights remain severely limited in Asia, where many countries still criminalize same-sex sexual intimacy.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2019 11:02 UTC