{"id":60241,"date":"2023-11-30T23:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/30\/lgbtq-couple-nepal-first-south-asia-to-be-legally-married"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:25:34","slug":"lgbtq-couple-in-nepal-are-first-in-south-asia-to-be-legally-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60241","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ couple in Nepal are first in south Asia to be legally married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights activists say marriage of Maya Gurung, a transgender woman, and Surendra Pandey is \u2018historic day\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An LGBTQ+ couple in Nepal have said they want to \u201cscream to the world that we are husband and wife at last\u201d after becoming the first in south Asia to have their marriage legally recognised.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Gurung, 38, a transgender woman, and Surendra Pandey, 27, were given a legal certificate in Nepal\u2019s Lamjung district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/30\/lgbtq-couple-nepal-first-south-asia-to-be-legally-married\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights activists say marriage of Maya Gurung, a transgender woman, and Surendra Pandey is \u2018historic day\u2019An LGBTQ+ couple in Nepal have said they want to \u201cscream to the world that we are husband and wife at last\u201d after becoming the first in south Asia t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2729,241,79,61,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq-rights","category-nepal","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60242,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60241\/revisions\/60242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}