Taiwan has legalised same-sex marriage, making it the first Asian jurisdiction to allow the unions.
Taiwanese lawmakers backed a bill on Friday allowing same-sex couples to form “intimate, exclusive, permanent relationships” and to register marriages with the government.
The vote followed a ruling by Taiwan’s constitutional court in May 2017 that existing laws stipulating that a marriage must be between a man and a woman were unconstitutional. Parliament had two years to bring in a change to the law.
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