Same-sex couple Chen Ying-hsuan (right) and Li Li-chen take part in a mass wedding hosted by the Taiwanese military.
TAOYUAN, Taiwan: Waving rainbow flags and shedding tears of joy, two Taiwanese same-sex couples tied the knot on Friday at a mass wedding hosted by the military in another landmark for Asia’s LGBT community.
Taiwan is at the vanguard of the burgeoning gay rights movement in Asia and became the first place in the region to allow same-sex marriage in May 2019 after a bruising political fight.
Nearly 200 couples paraded at an army base in northern Taoyuan county before exchanging vows at an outdoor ceremony.
Among them were two Taiwanese female soldiers and their civilian same-sex partners, a first for the island’s armed forces which regularly hosts mass weddings for…
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