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Tintrlvr
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« on: October 05, 2017, 12:57:05 AM »
« edited: October 05, 2017, 01:01:07 AM by Tintrlvr »

I still don't understand why Japan and South Korea aren't going to join the Free World. Undecided

Korea is full of homophobic evangelical Christians (thank the US military for that!). Japan is way too knee-jerk conservative on literally everything (can't even get their house in order enough to make women able to inherit the throne) to think about something like this.

Unclear to me how high it is on the list of priorities in Taiwan (and I know Tsai has become rather unpopular so doesn't have the political capital to spend on it), but I would still say Taiwan is by far the best bet for same-sex marriage in east Asia sometime soon, and the courts have in theory guaranteed that it will happen in 2019 if not sooner. Chinese culture generally is much more liberal/permissive than the very traditional Korea and especially Japan, and China overall would likely be a lively liberal society today if things had gone somewhat differently at a variety of different potential junctures in the first half of the 20th century.
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Tintrlvr
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2017, 01:09:25 AM »

1 more down, plenty more to go. Still, almost all countries outside of central/western Europe, the Americas, and Oceania still have it illegal.



I checked the map that includes penalties in Wikipedia and India has an "imprisonment up to life". This is mad, I never thought their laws were homophobic to that degree.

The story is somewhat complicated. The law banning homosexual activity was declared unconstitutional in 2009, but then reinstated by a different court in 2013. There is currently a rehearing of the decision that reinstated the law pending.
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