Historic referendum that led Ireland to be the first country to legalize gay marriage by popular vote has encouraged outpouring of support and celebration.
Members of the Hong Kong business community wants the High Court to overthrow a decision by the Government not to recognize same-sex partnerships so they can recruit the best talent.
While all such weddings can now take place without the threat of censure, the government will still not officially recognize same-sex marriages or provide related legal protections.
A former South African Constitutional Court judge who was in Taiwan recently to receive the country’s top Tang Prize for rule of law said Taiwan could become a leader in openness if it were to the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
A lesbian couple in Taiwan is petitioning the local courts in an attempt to rectify laws which currently bar one of the women from claiming two of their children as her own.
The mayor of a northeastern Thai city has officiated at a wedding between two men even though Thailand does not legally recognize marriages of same-sex couples.
Come May, Vietnam’s National Assembly will have concluded two years of deliberation on amendments to the Law on Marriage and Family and in all likelihood end its current ban on marriage between same-sex couples.
Vietnam's move to legislate marriage equality is a ruse to make it look "cool" and promote its new face of modernity for the government has failed to educate the nation's conservative base that recognizes same sex relations as taboo, says a Vietnamese gay activist.
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