The slow fight for same-sex marriage in Asia

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“It has been a long fight full of tears for us.” So said Ann “Waaddao” Chumaporn, the organiser of Bangkok Pride March, after Thailand finally began recognising same-sex marriages last week.

But while “hundreds of couples” celebrate the enactment of the bill by tying the knot, others are asking “the same question” that was heard “throughout the long campaign to get the equal marriage law passed”, reported the BBC. “Why Thailand? Why nowhere else, aside from Taiwan and Nepal, in Asia?”

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