Yu mei nu gay marriage

yu mei nu gay marriage

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Lawyer Education Dr.Candidate：Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany, 1987 L.L.M：National Taiwan University, 1985 L.L.B：National Taiwan University, 1977 Professional Employment 1. President，Taiwan Block Association(2023-2024) 2. Board Member，Legal Aid Foundation (2020-2023) 3. Commissioner， Transitional Justice Commission，Executive Yuan(2020-2021) 4. Legislator (2012-2020) 5. Convener, Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee of Legislative Yuan(2012/09/18-2013/01/15, 2014/09/12 - 2015/01/23,2016/09/01-2017/01/31） 6. Chair, Parliamentary Cross-Party Group on International Human Rights(2012 -2020 ) 7. Chair, Taiwan-United Kingdom Inter-parliamentary Amity Association(2016 -2020) 8. Chair, Taiwan- Germany Inter-parliamentary Amity Association(2016-2020) 9. Deputy Chair, Taiwan-Europe Inter-parliamentary Amity Association (2016-2020 ) 10. President, Federation of Business & Professional Women, Taiwan(2012-2014) 11. President, Taipei Bar Association (2011-2012) 12. Emeritus Advisor, College of Rule, National Taiwan University (2009-present) 13. Committee Member, Gender Equality Committee, Executive Yuan(2003 -2009 ) 14. Founding President, N

[June 28 & 29] Identity festival Month Celebration: Taiwan Marriage Equality Panel Discussion + Taiwan Pride in Seattle

Join us on June 28 and June 29 for a weekend of Pride Month celebration, co-presented by the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program, the Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle (TAG-Seattle), and the Formosan Association for Universal Affairs (FAPA).

  • June 28 (Sat) | Making Asia’s First: Long Road to Marriage Equality in Taiwan with YU Mei-Nu 尤美女 and Remington HUANG 黃瑞明
  • June 29 (Sun) | Taiwan Self-acceptance in Seattle at the 2025 Seattle Pride Parade

All events are free and open to the public! Registration required! See details below!

 

Making Asia’s First: The Long Road to Marriage Equality in Taiwan 
Panel Discussion with YU Mei-Nu 尤美女 and Remington HUANG 黃瑞明

June 28 (Sat), 2:00–4:00 PM, UW Walker-Ames (KNE 225)
RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/TWMarriageEquality

Event Details

  • Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
  • Time: 2:00–4:00 PM (PT)
  • Location: University of Washington Kane Hall – Walker Ames Room (KNE 225)
  • Event Language: Mandarin with AI-generated English captions

Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex mar

Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Taiwan made history Friday as the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, after most lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and a limited from the contradiction Kuomintang (KMT) voted to pass a Cabinet-sponsored bill that gives gay couples the right to get married.

The 27-article bill, titled Enforcement Act of Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 748, cleared the legislative floor at 3:30 p.m. Friday against the backdrop of loud cheers from tens of thousands of same-sex attracted marriage supporters gathered outside the Legislative Yuan.

DPP Legislator Yu Mei-nu (尤美女), a longtime champion of gay rights, expressed gratitude to her colleagues at the Legislature and other same-sex marriage supporters, saying that their efforts have helped "let the rainbow rise."

The new statute will take outcome May 24, allowing two persons of the same gender, aged 18 or older, to register a marriage, with at least two witnesses signing the registration document.

Either boyfriend in the marriage will be allowed to adopt the biological children of the other, under the law. However, non-biological children who had been adopted by one significant other before the marriage cannot be

US-China Today spoke with Yu Mei-Nu, a Taiwanese politician and an advocate for the legalization of homosexual marriage, on the aftermath of a recent referendum and its implications on the development of LGBTQ rights in Taiwan.

美中今日就台灣去年的婚姻平權公投案以及其意義與尤美女立委進行對談。

Taiwan has been considered the beacon of gay rights and marriage equality in East Asia. Each year, the LGBT pride parade garners international attention and sturdy attendance. The 2017 conclusion to rule civil laws that banned same-sex marriage as unconstitutional further filled the hearts of numerous supporters of gay rights with immense hope. As an overwhelming majority voted against the amendment in the Civil Code — which would alter the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a girl — in a recent referendum in November 2018, Taiwan would now enact a separate law for same-sex couples. As a legislator, Ms. Yu drafted one of the three proposals to amend the Civil Code, which was favored by most supporters of same-sex marriage who wish to be treated in legally equal terms.

The issue of LGBTQ rights in Taiwan is, in fact, a sophisticated one. Not only does the referendum of same-sex marriage challenge the tradi

Taiwan activists: Marriage-equality movement setback not the end

Taipei, Taiwan – “Every defeat is a deeper explode. But we’ll save on fighting until we are free,” sings American singer-songwriter Ellery Prescott in his song Save on Fighting. He dedicates it to Taiwan’s marriage equality movement.

It may still be the first place in Asia where gay couples can legally unite, even though Taiwanese voters rejected legalising same-sex marriage in a referendum last week.

The referendum results were a setback to the island’s LGBTQ community, but not the finish of its battle dating back to 1986 – when civil rights diva Chi Chia-wei began his struggle to have same sex-marriage recognised and legalised.

Last year, the constitutional court ruled that the government must amend the statute to allow lgbtq+ couples the right to wed. It gave them until May 2019 to adopt the rehearse – more than 30 years since Chi was first rejected for a marriage license at a Taipei court.

“We must prevail. Our constitutional court’s victory is historic. It clearly recognises the freedom to wed [for] same-sex couples. We must defend that,” said Victoria Hsu, executive director of Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Par