Taiwan hosted it’s biggest LGBT Pride Parade ever! Over 30,000 visitors from countries all over Asia came out to show their support for Taiwan’s ninth annual LGBT parade.
The event, which was started in 2001, drew a couple of hundred people during its first year. Back then, there was only one LGBT parade in Taiwan. This year, parades took place in Taipei, Taichung, Kaoshiung and Hualien.
Homosexuality is legal in Taiwan and it has been illegal to discriminate against sexual orientation since 2007. Nevertheless, a strong social taboo still exists, and a number of parade-goers still wear masks.
Here are some of my favorite images from the day:
Canadian expat Carrie Kellenberger has kept a home base with her husband in Asia since 2003. A prolific traveler, Carrie has funded her travels primarily as a writer, editor, travel blogger and photographer, but she has also worked as an educator, voice over artist, model and nightclub singer. She draws upon her 15+ years of travel experience to write about travel-related issues and the countries she has visited on her award-winning web site, My Several Worlds.
Her photography and travel articles have appeared in both print and online publications around the world, including Travel and Leisure Asia, Unearthing Asia and Hip Compass Escapes.
