Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/16
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Oct. 16 (CNA) LGBT rights activists on Monday urged President Tsai Ing-wen

LGBT activists demand President Tsai make good on her campaign promise at a rally commemorating the death of Professor Jacques Picoux.

(蔡英文) to deliver on her promise, as they staged a rally to commemorate Jacques Picoux (畢安生), a French professor whose suicide last year put the issue of legalizing same-sex marriage in the spotlight.

The activists made two demands to the Tsai government. First, they said, same-sex marriage should be legalized by amending the Civil Code which currently states marriage is between a man and a woman. The activists are opposed to introducing a separate bill to address the inequality.

Second, they demanded that the Civil Code be amended before the legislative session goes into recess, expected to be by the end of this year or early next year.
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