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16 Geo. J. Int'l Aff. 154 (2015)
Colors of Rainbow, Shades of Family: The Road to Marriage Equality and Democratization of Intimacy in Taiwan

handle is hein.journals/geojaf16 and id is 402 raw text is: Law&Ethics Colors of Rainbow, Shades of Family The Road to Marriage Equality and Democratization ofIntimacy in Taiwan Victoria Hsiu-wen Hsu As of today, no country in Asia has passed marriage equality laws (same-sex marriage) or has provided same-sex partner- ships with the same legal rights and status as heterosexual married couples. Most countries in the world that have struggled for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) family rights have placed a particular emphasis on marriage. In this respect, Taiwan's legislative attempts and societal debates concerning diverse families (including, but not limited to, marriage equality/same-sex marriage) can be a source of inspiration for other legal jurisdictions wishing to develop similar movements. Moreover, Taiwan's Diverse Families Movement (which focuses on three different types of family and is not marriage-centric) is different from sim- ilar movements and discourses in Europe and the Americas that focus mainly on same-sex marriage. The uniqueness of the Diverse Families Movement in Taiwan is worth noting for this reason. This article will first provide a background to the Taiwan Diverse Families Movement, and then explain the three bills of Diverse Families proposed by the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR). In short, the Diverse Families Movement insists that separate Victoria Hsiu-wen Hsu is the co-founder and CEO of Taiwan Alliance to Pro- mote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR). She is Attorney-at-Law (admit- ted in Taiwan in 1999) and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at Univer- sit6 Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense (France). She has two Master of Law degrees from the Universi- te Strasbourg III (France) and from National Taipei University (Taiwan). [1541

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