Maggie and Ching Yun in their bedroom, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2019 ‘Those days when you were crying are not the doomsday. You have to believe you can live the way you like, can be in a healthy relationship. Thank you very much for your courage.’ Maggie Maggie (right) and Ching Yun have been together for two years, and moved together almost right after they met. Maggie works in the movie industry and is from Taichung. She had a girlfriend there and her family was shocked about it. Everybody got hurt. So Maggie left for Taipei, the big city, to be able to be herself. There’s a big gap between the Taipei bubble and other cities in Taiwan. She’s still in contact with her family but they never talked about her sexual orientation again. Even if Ching Yun looks boyish, her family still expects her to marry a man. They think her and Maggie are flatmates. Her mother doesn’t know but during the referendum about same sex marriage Chin Yun tried to persuade her to vote yes. She’s been waiting for the right timing to come out to her mother. The legalization in May doesn’t mean much to her because people still think it’s something special to do. So even if they can get married after May, the media will report it as something unusual. For her it’s still unfair, people talk about it as it’s different or special. She wants to get married when she will be comfortable to do so, when it’s not seen as different anymore. They do want to get married but for them it’s more important to get support from their family and friends and how society sees them is secondary. Photo by Su Cassiano/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM