In an interim ruling, Supreme Court judge Til Prasad Shrestha ordered the Nepalese government to immediately begin the registration of same-sex marriages and non-traditional heterosexual unions, while legislation is prepared to amend the law.
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I guess there’s something about Asian countries facing significant existential threats (Nepal global warming and Taiwan, well, more of a threat to way of life and govt) and being more open to LGBT groups? 
Good news all around however
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I think these kind of things generally comes with economic progress, but Nepal seems to be the last place anyone would expect to open up on same sex marriage… We would expect Japan, south Korea, or Thailand to…
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Well if the comes with economic progress assumption was correct, Japan and Korea would definitely have it too. I think I’d feel safe betting Thailand or Korea will be next though. That said idk how much influence the King of Thailand (PBUH 
) has over it
By Korea obviously mean the southern one, the northern one isn’t even really worth mentioning
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Japan has weird rules though even though they seem sexually open.
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I don’t even begin to understand the Japanese govts position on gay anything. It’s bizarre. It’s never really been criminalized (for a long period of time), it has broad but not complete support, but the party doesn’t like it, and recognition is refused to couples, but sex is ok, you can die for the country in the military, you can legally change gender, etc, but very few anti discrimination laws.
I suppose it is Japan. Gay Sex? Chill. You want to make a disgusting gay porno (not because it’s gay but because of what the Japanese do…)? Cool cool cool. Consent age of 16, same as rest of society? Of course. Change gender? We can fetishize that. Serve in the self defense force? Banzai brother. But God FORBID you try to get married.
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Congrats to Nepal. For a while it was leaning pretty heavily towards China. This seems like a break from China, since China is pretty firmly against same sex marriage.
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