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After a busy weekend for the global LGBT movement, reactions in countries throughout the region remain polarised

  In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court voted yesterday to guarantee same-sex marriage throughout the United States of America.

Six gay couples and one lesbian couple were married in West Hollywood, Los Angeles in a ceremony sponsored by Alibaba.

Historic referendum that led Ireland to be the first country to legalize gay marriage by popular vote has encouraged outpouring of support and celebration.

A Taipei government official has promised to do his utmost to include gay couples in the city's mass weddings. Up to 200 couples will marry in two ceremonies scheduled for 2015.

The Asahi Shimbun poll showed 52 percent of those surveyed approved the plan by Shibuya Ward to recognize same-sex couples as “equivalent” to those married.

  It has submitted to the government a list of recommendations that also includes adoption of children by gay couples and which is to be discussed in the cabinet ahead of a bill on the issue.

Given the cultural and political closeness of the two neighbors, the development in Vietnam creates a precedent that Cambodian authorities may be inclined to follow.

Fifty-nine percent of Chinese people say society should accept gay people and 40 percent of respondents supported marriage between same-sex couples.