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Hands held tight and dressed in matching gray business suits, Lu Yin-Jen and his Japanese husband Eizaburo Ariyoshi walk out of the Taiwan High Administrative Court having just left the first hearing in a two-year legal battle to have their marriage registered with the Ministry of the Interior.
Human rights and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups on Wednesday urged the government to expedite a proposed amendment to allow all transnational same-sex couples to register their marriage in Taiwan.
Although Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage in 2019, the Ministry of the Interior has over the past two years followed a directive that prohibits same-sex couples from registering when one partner is from a country or jurisdiction where same-sex marriage is illegal.
The directive cites as its legal basis Article 46 of the Act Governing the Choice of Law in Civil Matters Involving Foreign Elements (涉外民事法律適用法), which stipulates that the formation of a marriage is
Taipei, May 4 (CNA) Several LGBTQ and human right groups called on the government on Wednesday to expedite a proposed law amendment to enable all cross-national same-sex couples to register their marriage in Taiwan.
Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) Human rights groups in Taiwan and Japan have called on the government to change its stance of only allowing mixed-nationality same-sex couples to marry in Taiwan if they come from a country that also recognizes same-sex marriage.