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[hunnibee26]

Taiwan now allows cross national same-sex couples to register their marriage in Taiwan, even if one partner is a national of a country that doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage.

Previously, to register a same-sex marriage in Taiwan, both partners had to be Taiwanese, but this new policy reversal effectively stopped this practice that was deemed discriminatory. Now, any same-sex marriage can be registered in Taiwan as long as one partner is Taiwanese. No matter the country that the non-Taiwanese partner has citizenship in, the marriage can be registered. The only exception is for couples where one partner is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China.

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[lgbtally4ever]

I’LL TELL YOU ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE—bosungjun

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[mapsontheweb]

Legality of same-sex unions as of July 2022.

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[midnightfunk]

#same sex unions #japan #discrimination #lgbtq issues

[thoughtlessarse]

As the target of constant homophobic abuse as a teenager, Rimas Prokopovicius rarely heard anything positive about gay people when he was growing up in a provincial city in northern Lithuania.

Like many young LGBT+ people in the Baltic state, a member of the European Union since 2004, he blames the country's "gay propaganda" law.

While the 2009 legislation has not been enforced in recent years, LGBT+ rights campaigners say it legitimises homophobic attitudes, curbs free speech and is hampering their fight for same-sex civil partnerships to be legalised.

"I'd really like to see the law (overturned) ... Because, thinking about myself as a child, it was extremely hard to live with parents that don't really accept you, then going to a school that is very intolerant," said Prokopovicius, 21.

"It was pretty rough. I was bullied a lot," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in the capital, Vilnius, where he studies molecular biology.

Dubbed the "gay propaganda" law by critics, the Lithuanian legislation bans sharing information with under-18s that "expresses contempt for family values (or) encourages ... entry into a marriage and creation of a family other than stipulated in the Constitution".

Supporters of the measure say it helps protect traditional family values.

Despite an outcry over similar legislation implemented recently in Hungary, the law has not received the same global attention.

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#lithuania #homophobia #gay propaganda law #lgbt+ rights #same sex unions #discrimination

[helloiamausacresfan]

Twitter: "World news-3 hours ago-Pope Francis calls for civil unions for same-sex couples-Photo via @JoeMyGodThe pope endorsed same-sex civil union laws in a documentary released on Wednesday, adding that "They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable because of it." 

Well, this is huge.

#pope francis #same sex #same sex unions #vatican #catholic #catholiscism #civil unions #2020 #2020 is wild

[galleryyuhself]

~Galleryyuhself~ Barbados recognizes same sex union in the age of covid-19.

#Galleryyuhself/Barbados #Galleryyuhself/Tourism #galleryyuhself/covid-19 #Same sex unions #marriage #tourism #LGBTQI rights #human rights #covid-19

[a-queer-seminarian]

mlm marriage in 1578

The following is a passage from the article “Is This Love? Same-Sex Marriages in Renaissance Rome” by Giuseppe Marcocci (2015).

Content warning for violent homophobia and the execution of queer people. The fact that these men seeking to unite in marriage before God and their community were brutally murdered for it is painful. However, the fact that such a marriage existed at all in the 1500s is something that fills me with love and pride for my LGBTQA+ ancestors. We truly have lived and loved in ever time and place.

Compare their public marriage as described below to the private marriage of Anne Lister and Ann Walker in 19th century England; these two women also held a ceremony for themselves in a church, exchanging rings and taking communion. They did so secretly, and lived out the rest of their shared life united. How many others have married each other in public or in private, in places that acknowledged their unions and places that denied and vilified them? Our history is long and complex.

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At first light on 13 August 1578, eight men were hanged on the bridge in front of Castel Sant’Angelo in the center of Rome. Their bodies were then burned at the Porta Latina, in the southeast of the Renaissance city, an unusual place for a stake. Six of them were Spanish, one Portuguese, and another Slavic. Their names are reported in a selective list of condemned men in early modern Rome, published about one century ago by the liberal scholar Domenico Orano: the Albanian boatman Battista, the Catalan Antonio de Vélez, Francisco Herrera from Toledo, Bernardino de Alfaro from Seville, Alfonso de Robles from Madrid, the Portuguese Marcos Pinto from Viana do Alentejo, Jerónimo de Paz from Toledo, and Gaspar Martín de Vitoria.

The execution of so many people at once was exceptional. It shocked the city and remained in its memory, together with the crime for which they were convicted.

Three years later, Michel de Montaigne visited Rome. On Saturday, 18 March 1581, he noted rumors still surrounding the basilica at the Porta Latina in his Travel Journal:

“On my return from Saint Peter’s I met a man who informed me humorously [plesammant] of two things: that the Portuguese made obeisance in Passion week; and then, that on this same day the Station [of the Cross] was at San Giovanni [a] Porta Latina, in which church a few years before certain Portuguese had entered into a strange brotherhood [étrange confrérie]. They married one another, male to male, at Mass, with the same ceremonies with which we perform our marriages, [took communion together,] read the same marriage Gospel service, and then went to bed and lived together. The Roman wits [esprits romains] said that because in the other conjunction, of male and female, this circumstance of marriage alone makes it legitimate, it had seemed to these sharp [people] [fines gens] that this other action would become equally legitimate if they authorized it with the ceremonies and mysteries of the church. Eight or nine Portuguese of this fine sect were burned.”

#lgbt history #homophobia #same sex unions #jstor #essays #readings #summer 2019

[thoughtlessarse]

Bolivia’s civil registry authorised for the first time a same-sex civil union following a two-year legal battle, a decision activists in the Andean nation hope will pave the way for an overhaul of the country’s marriage laws.

David Aruquipa, a 48-year-old businessman, and Guido Montano, a 45-year-old lawyer, were initially denied the right to register their union in 2018 by authorities in Bolivia, who said the country’s laws did not allow same-sex marriage.

The couple, together for more than 11 years, took their case to court.

While the Bolivian Constitution still does not permit same-sex unions, Montano and Aruquipa argued successfully the prohibition violated international human rights standards and constituted discrimination under Bolivian law.

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Congratulations Bolivia!

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