More than 1,600 guests attend collective same-sex wedding banquet

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/25
By Stacy Hsu 
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) More than 1,600 people gathered Saturday evening on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei for a wedding banquet for several same-sex couples, as part of the LGBT community’s celebration of Taiwan’s legalization of same-sex marriage the previous day.

Organized by the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR), the outdoor banquet consisted of 160 tables at which nine traditional Taiwanese courses were served.

According to TAPCPR co-founder and Executive Director Victoria Hsu (許秀雯), the original plan was to have 120 tables, but the seats sold out within a week and the number of tables was increased to 160.    [FULL  STORY]