LGBT Pride Parade calls for gay-friendly policies

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Date Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:32:08 -0700

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November 1-7, 2010

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LGBT Pride Parade calls for gay-friendly policies



Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong

Written by Lydia Ma



This year’s Taiwan LGBT Pride Parade took place on the eve 

of Reformation Day, or October 30, 2010, in downtown 

Taipei. Supporters waved small paper fans bearing a logo 

usually associated with vote-casting to highlight this year’s 

“Out & Vote” theme. 



Organizers used the event to galvanize support and urge 

Taiwanese people to speak up in favor of implementing gay-

friendly policies that’d give Taiwan’s LGBT citizens the same 

rights as their heterosexual compatriots.



The parade was followed by an evening outdoor gala by 

Ketagalan Boulevard featuring several speakers and 

renowned pop star Chang Hui-mei, better known as A-mei, 

opened the night with a few songs.



As in previous years, Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian 

Church led the march on that day. But this year, they were 

accompanied by Jireh in Love Fellowship (a fellowship for 

gay Christians in Taichung) and Promise Giver Christian 

Action Network.



In a statement prepared for this event, Tong-Kwang Light 

House Presbyterian Church called on all Christian churches 

to ponder on the essence of Reformation Day, which they’d 

be celebrating the following day. It urged Christians to ask 

themselves whether demonizing gays and lesbians was 

contrary to the Bible’s command for Christians to “set the 

burdened and battered free”. It also blasted rhetoric that 

blamed gays and lesbians as the reason God had allowed 

natural disasters to engulf the world. 



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