Huge crowd turns out for LGBT march in Taiwan

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Huge Crowd Turns Out For Lgbt March In Taiwan
Taiwan LGBTQ Parade, © AP/Press Association Images
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By Associated Press Reporters

A huge and festive crowd marched in Taiwan’s capital on Saturday in the annual LGBT Pride event.

Turnout was down from last year, but organisers said it still topped 100,000 on a mostly sunny day in Taipei.

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Taiwan LGBTQ Parade
Participants march through a street during the Pride parade in Taipei (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

Many participants did not wear protective masks, but others did, some in rainbow colours.

While many Pride events elsewhere moved online this year because of Covid-19, Taiwan has largely kept the pandemic at bay.

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The self-governing island of 24 million people has recorded 555 cases of coronavirus and has not had a locally spread case in more than 200 days.


Taiwan LGBTQ Parade
Many participants did not wear protective masks (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

“While the rest of the world is stuck in the pandemic, we can still organise such a massive event,” said Zoe Tsao, who works in digital marketing. “This, I think, is great and very precious.”

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However, international travel restrictions did reduce the number of participants coming from abroad this year.

Taiwan became the first and only place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage last year.


Taiwan Military LGBT Marriage
Lesbian couple Yi Wang and Yumi Meng tied the know during a military mass wedding ceremony in Taoyuan city, northern Taiwan (Chiang Ying-ying/AP)

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Two lesbian couples tied the knot in a mass wedding held by Taiwan’s military on Friday.

The mass wedding with 188 couples was the first time same-sex couples have been wed and celebrated at a military ceremony.

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