Taiwan Pride

2025 Taiwan Pride Controversy Deepens, Further Doubts Raised Over TWRCAA’s Stance on Transgender and Sexual Rights

Yo-Ling Chen
With the 23rd Taiwan LGBT+ Pride parade set to take place in Taipei this Saturday, new developments have cast further doubts as to whether the Taiwan Rainbow Civil Action Association (TWRCAA, 臺灣彩虹公民行動協會), Taiwan Pride’s main organizer, truly supports transgender and sexual rights...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2025Social Movements15 min read

2025 Taiwan Pride Controversy Explained: 
LGBTQ+ Community Speaks Out Against Transphobia and Contempt for Sexual Rights

Yo-Ling Chen
This past week, controversy erupted throughout Taiwan’s LGBTQ+ community after it was discovered that the Administrative and Public Relations Director of this year’s Taiwan Pride march posted on her personal Threads account content that was deemed as transphobic, against sexual rights, and even contemptuous towards the work of previous Taiwan Pride organizers. This discovery sparked widespread outrage amongst Taiwan’s LGBTQ+ community, with multiple individuals and organizations criticizing Pride organizers and speaking up in support of transgender people and sexual rights...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2025Social Movements32 min read

Fourth Annual Trans March Brings Visibility as Taiwan’s Trans Rights Movement Gains Momentum and Draws Opposition

Yo-Ling Chen
Over 3,000 people gathered in Ximending this evening to participate in the fourth annual Taiwan Trans March organized by the Taiwan Tongzhi (LGBTQ+) Hotline Association. This year’s march is the first in-person Trans March since the historic gains in Taiwan’s trans rights movement last fall. At the same time, trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) have also mobilized, almost exclusively online, against the trans rights movement in Taiwan. As trans issues continue to enter into public discourse and legal reform proceeds at its own pace, visibility and support for Taiwan’s trans community has never been more crucial...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2022Social Movements10 min read

140,000 March For 2018 Taiwan Pride, But Challenges Still Remain For Efforts To Realize Marriage Equality

Brian Hioe
The 16th annual pride parade took place today in Taipei, drawing an claimed 140,000 participants, which would be a new record. This year’s pride parade would be a politically charged event, seeing as a referendum on gay marriage is set to take place next month during elections on November 24th, and this question loomed over the event...
EnglishGender/SexualityOctober 2018Social Movements9 min read