Activists will mark anniversary of French professor’s death on October 16
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/03
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Gay rights groups reacted with dismay Tuesday to a
Gay rights activists call for progress on same-sex marriage. (By Associated Press)
statement by Premier William Lai (賴清德) that the legalization of same-sex marriage was unlikely to occur during the current legislative session, while they said they would mark the anniversary of the death of a gay French professor with an event in front of the Presidential Office October 16.
The fall of Jacques Picoux from his apartment, widely believed to be suicide, came amid a depression over the death by cancer of his Taiwanese partner of 35 years.
The incident gave the movement for the approval of same-sex marriages a new impetus, culminating in a Council of Grand Justices decision last May to rule the limitation of marriage to person of different gender invalid. [FULL STORY]