Transnational gay couple files suit against MOI

A Taiwanese-Japanese same-sex couple yesterday filed an administrative suit against the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), urging it to amend laws to allow same-sex couples to be married in Taiwan regardless of laws in their countries of origin.
Constitutional Interpretation No. 748 has legalized same-sex marriage in Taiwan, and transnational same-sex couples can register their marriage under the Act for Judicial Yuan’s Implementation of Constitutional Interpretation No. 748 (司法院釋字第七四八號解釋施行法) if they are from a country that recognizes same-sex marriage, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights said yesterday.
The couple in question, Taiwanese A-shu (阿樹) and his Japanese partner, Eizaburo Ariyoshi,

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