Taiwan Pride: We’re “Marching For The World”
Taiwan is one of the few Pride marches to be held this year, after more than 500 Pride events have been cancelled around the globe because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Just a year after Taiwan became the first place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, more than 200 people filled Liberty Square in Taipei in celebration of Pride, stating that they were “marching for the world”.
Although Taiwan usually holds its Pride parade in October, they have brought it forward this year to replace the hundreds of marches which have been canceled around the world.
Organiser Darien Chen said: “The whole world is facing the height of the pandemic. So Taiwan won’t give in, and we must continue with this flame of hope and stand up for the world.”
As ‘BBC’ reports, a French drag artist named Cookie, who has been living in Taiwan for six years, said: “I’m here to march for France. Since the rest of the world cannot march or even go out, we have the opportunity to march for the rest of the world.”
Taiwan’s coronavirus statistics are impressively good: it has recorded just over 440 coronavirus infections and only seven deaths. It has not seen any local transmissions for more than two months.
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