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20000 March in Taipei for Gay Rights
Times of India, 10/31/2009
More than 20,000 people marched in Taipei on Saturday to demand equal rights for gays and the legalisation of homosexual marriage.
The Campaign for Open Minds, launched by a group of LGBT and human rights activists, public health specialists and support group members, seeks to generate public discussion and debate on the very harsh reality of homophobia.
Editorial - Years of legal and public awareness campaigns by women`s and rights groups, the rape law was finally amended to punish marital rape and to expand protection to homosexuals.
Opinion: Sanitsuda Ekachai - Ask any transsexual in Thailand what happened to him on military conscription day, and he will painfully tell you how he had to bear with humiliation, ridicule, and - quite often - sexual harassment.
The council moved recently to strictly control sex change operations and require that transgender people consult a psychiatrist, live as a woman for a year and receive hormone therapy before being such an operation is allowed.
