Communist Nepal 👍
Fun fact: They executed their king in 2001. They are the most recent monarchy to have been overthrown and destroyed in fact.
What? That’s not at all what happened.
The crown prince shot 9 other members of the royal family during a party and shot himself after.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_royal_massacre
Later in 2009 after protest, the king stood down and they formed a republic.
Speak to some Nepalese about it, nobody believes it the government explanation of the event.
Either way the event directly led to the end of the monarchy.
Congratulations to Nepal. Though this ruling isn’t perfect, it sets up a road to eventual full marriage equality, which is a really good thing. Hopefully other nations in the region soon follow, I’m happy to see news like this even as other nations backslide into more extreme conservatism.
Yeah, it’s great news. Unfortunately they are already getting some pushback/refusal from judges but hopefully it will get ironed out when they come to make the legislation.
W but go further
test
“test” but written backwards
This is a W. It started with different registers here in Austria as well (“registered partnership” vs “marriage”) until our supreme court ordered it was unconstitutional to make that distinction.
Now all marriages are equal before the law. As they should be.
It may be a W, but it’s still pretty sad that it’s 2023, and this is the first South Asian country to do so.
Everybody had to start somewhere
India when?
Under the bjp fascists? Never. You’d need a revolution first.
its not just the bjp fascists, most of the judiciary too is insanely regressive.
Hence revolution. You can not replace the institutions with new ones without one.
Educate! Organize!! Agitate!!!
OP is a China shill. Review his post and comment history. He’s spamming all the news communities with stuff like this.
Nepal is a part of China? TIL.
Or is it that we shouldn’t praise when South Asian LGBT+ news hits like this?
Um, unless Taiwan is not part of “south asia”, they have been allowing non-heterosexual marriage for a well. Recently they are also planning to open Child adoption for non-heterosexual partners, but I did not follow up on how it went.
I’d love to know who considers Taiwan as part of South Asia, because it isn’t
I always image south asia just the whole southern part of asia. I guess Taiwan is probably south east Asia according to the typical characterization.
It’s not the location that’s the issue with Taiwan but the country status thing, with the autonomous mainland provinces refusing to declare independence and everything.
Let me guess, an American?
I am Chinese, but thanks for asking.
What’s considered South Asia is basically the Indian subcontinent. So India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, The Maldives, and sometimes Afghanistan depending on who you ask.
The Himalayas separate South Asia from what’s broadly considered East Asia, which is what Taiwan is a part of, given its historic ties to China.
If you want to make a conservative Chinese person’s head explode, congratulate them on being the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. When they look at you confused and say that China didn’t, say, “Oh, I was under the impression that Taiwan was part of China.”
China when?
When they overthrow their dictator and reestablish their government from that tiny island on the coast.
Isn’t a separate register kind of Shady?
Not really. It’s a separate, temporary, register until a more permanent solution can be found, which given the way Nepalese politics has been since the overthrow of the monarchy in 2006, this is how everything has worked. Constant gridlock has created perpetually delayed “permanent solutions” for damn near everything. So this isn’t any different in that respect.
It is kind of strange, but hey progress is progress. People are probably just happy to get anything at this point.
Yeah, you are right
