same sex unions

Thai same-sex marriage Bill passes first Senate reading

Thailand’s same-sex marriage bill on Tuesday (Apr 2) passed the first reading in the Senate, taking the kingdom another step closer to becoming the first South-east Asian nation to recognise LGBTQ mar...

Participants at the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade (top). The debate whether Japan’s laws against same-sex marriage are unconstitutional has split lower courts, with one district court holding the bar to be constitutional but others saying it is unconstitutional in varying degrees.

Japan high court says same-sex marriage bar is unconstitutional

Japan’s bar on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, the high court in the northern region of Sapporo said on Thursday (Mar 14), the first such ruling by an appeals court on a matter that has divided...