{"id":60255,"date":"2023-12-01T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/01\/we-can-have-a-beautiful-future-now-nepals-first-legally-married-same-sex-couple-celebrates"},"modified":"2023-12-01T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T12:59:56","slug":"we-can-have-a-beautiful-future-now-nepals-first-legally-married-same-sex-couple-celebrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60255","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We can have a beautiful future now\u2019: Nepal\u2019s first legally married same-sex couple celebrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of legal challenges Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey registered their marriage, giving hope to other same-sex couples in the south Asian country<\/p>\n<p>The dancing continued until the early hours. Family and friends \u2013 and Suru the dog \u2013 gathered in western Nepal to mark the joyful end to what had been a historic day for Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey. On Wednesday, they became the first same-sex couple in south Asia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/30\/lgbtq-couple-nepal-first-south-asia-to-be-legally-married\">to have their marriage legally recognised<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Finally, we are completely together, finally we are completely each other\u2019s, finally we can perform each other\u2019s funeral if we die tomorrow,\u201d Gurung, 37, a transgender woman, says as the couple sit in the register office in rural Dordi municipality, where she was born.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/dec\/01\/we-can-have-a-beautiful-future-now-nepals-first-legally-married-same-sex-couple-celebrates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of legal challenges Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandey registered their marriage, giving hope to other same-sex couples in the south Asian countryThe dancing continued until the early hours. Family and friends \u2013 and Suru the dog \u2013 gathered in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4052,"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":[646,59,2729,241,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-global-development","category-lgbtq-rights","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","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\/60255","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\/4052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60256,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60255\/revisions\/60256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}