TAIPEI -- "After the same-sex marriage bill was passed, we suddenly felt that we could be together for a lifetime," a gay ghost tells his human husband, a handsome and heavily muscled policeman, in the groundbreaking Taiwanese movie "Marry My Dead Body."
This is a line that could not have been delivered before 2019, when Taiwan became the first -- and until now, the only -- Asian government to legalize same-sex marriage. In January, sexual minority rights took another step forward when President Tsai Ing-wen's Democratic Progressive Party administration moved to recognize gay marriages between Taiwanese and non-Taiwanese partners, even when such unions are banned in the foreign partner's native country.
