Many nations have fun Pride in June, recognizing L.B.G.T.Q. individuals and their struggles for equality around the globe. But that struggle, and that celebration, look completely different in completely different locations.
In Asia and the Pacific, same-sex marriage is authorized solely in Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan, in response to the Human Rights Campaign. India’s Supreme Court heard arguments final month in a case to legalize homosexual marriage.
Many L.G.B.T.Q. individuals will have fun Pride in Asian cities this month, as they’ve carried out for years. But greater than a dozen nations throughout the area nonetheless criminalize consensual gay sex, together with Afghanistan, Pakistan and Brunei, in response to information from the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.
Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, drew criticism final month from the nation’s conservatives for supporting homosexual rights there. (Japan is the one Group of 7 nation the place same-sex unions should not authorized, although public help is robust.)
Now, as we look forward to June, we’d love to listen to from L.G.B.T.Q. readers throughout Asia and the Pacific. Do you’re feeling safer now than you probably did a number of years in the past? Have your worries modified? Have your joys? How do you have fun together with your group?
We might characteristic your response in a future version of the Asia Pacific Morning Briefing.
