Sytuacja par homoseksualnych na Tajwanie - Abaca

Po Cheng in his one room apartment, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2019 Po Cheng is 29 years old activist for LGBTQIA+ rights. He grew up in Miaoli, a more conservative part of Taiwan. He tried to come out to his mother when he was twelve but she asked him if he needed to see a doctor, being considered as sick. As a child, his parents would not prevent him to do things considered girly, but his mother would tell him ‘you can do girly things but you can’t be gay’. ‘I tried to laugh about it. People in Miaoli are not exposed to LGBTQIA+ community, so it’s very new to them.Then we didn’t talk about it for many years. When I was twenty I talked to my family again. I told my mother and two sisters that I liked boys. But I didn’t dare to come out to my father. Surprisingly my mother told him and he just said that it was ok. But still my grandparents don’t know, because my parents refuse to talk to them. As we say I came out but my parents are still in the closet. Everyone says it’s open for gay people in Taiwan. But just last week a boy in high school jumped out of the window because someone laughed at him because of his sexual orientation, saying that the boy’s parents had HIV. The boy tried to talk to his teacher many times about being bullied but the teacher said he couldn’t fix the situation. So he tried to kill himself by jumping out the window in his school. The kid is around sixteen. So is that this open in Taiwan? Many people still say that gay marriage is an evil thing.I do many things because I know we have to fight more.’ Po Cheng Photo by Su Cassiano/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM