Love Won in the Rain: Taiwan, First in Asia (2019)
Rainbow umbrellas in the rain. Sixty-six votes. A question 33 years old, finally answered.
Tonight: how Taiwan became the first place in Asia where same-sex couples could marry. It begins in 1986, when Chi Chia-wei came out on national television, asked a court to notarize his marriage, and was detained for it under martial law. It ends on May 24, 2019, in a registration office beneath Taipei 101, with rainbow-colored forms on the counter and more than five hundred couples signing their names across the island.
Along the way: the soft roar of Taipei scooters, night-market steam and temple…
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