Joyce Teng remembers the day when Taiwan’s parliament passed the same-sex marriage bill in 2019, making it the first country in Asia to recognise such a union. Thousands of supporters erupted in joy outside the parliament building in the capital.
“It was raining in the morning, but eventually we saw the sunlight in the afternoon when the law was finally read and passed. We could see the rainbow in the sky. It was an amazing day,” she said.
In 2017, the island’s constitutional court ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry, giving parliament two…
