{"id":66436,"date":"2024-08-28T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/taiwan-china-same-sex-gay-marriage-rules"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T00:27:42","slug":"ryan-and-righ-want-to-get-married-in-taiwan-they-cant-because-of-chinas-same-sex-marriage-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66436","title":{"rendered":"Ryan and Righ want to get married in Taiwan \u2013 they can\u2019t because of China\u2019s same-sex marriage ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-strait couples are required to marry in China, but with gay marriage still impossible on the mainland, many couples are left in limbo<\/p>\n<p>Ryan and Righ like to compare their relationship to a Shakespearean drama. The two met when Righ, originally from China, visited Ryan\u2019s Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung in 2016. A brief conversation next to the city\u2019s \u201cLove River\u201d soon developed into a romance that defied the long-running cross-strait tensions between their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Although Righ returned to the Chinese capital of Beijing, and Ryan, who runs a guesthouse, stayed in Taiwan, the couple entered a long-distance relationship for years before deciding they wanted to get married.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/taiwan-china-same-sex-gay-marriage-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-strait couples are required to marry in China, but with gay marriage still impossible on the mainland, many couples are left in limboRyan and Righ like to compare their relationship to a Shakespearean drama. The two met when Righ, originally from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4390,"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":[41,2729,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbtq-rights","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436","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\/4390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66437,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436\/revisions\/66437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}