The News Lens
Date: 2017/12/11
By: Jay Lin

Taiwan’s LGBT community has an easier time than many, but more needs to be done for

Photo Credit: Shih-Shiuan Kao@Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

such progress to receive international recognition.

Taiwan, with its commitment to be the first Asian country to legalize gay marriage, should have been the star of the 2017 ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) Asia conference in Phnom Penh. In reality, it was hardly a blip on the radar.

A previous speaker at the 2015 Taipei conference, I came as a participant to find possible partners to ally with for our GagaOOLala [LGBT streaming movie] service and to research which subjects we might use for an upcoming documentary web series. The issues that were explored – 23 sessions concerning 25 nations – were a bit daunting and overwhelming, but there are three observations that I would like to share:
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