For the first time ever a municipality in Nepal has followed an interim order ... to form a committee to prepare a law legalizing same-sex marriage. In 2015 that committee recommended the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to have their same-sex marriage legally recognized. The Himalayan nation is one of the few in Asia to allow same ...

Voters supported legalizing same-sex marriage 62% to 38% in a nonbinding nationwide referendum. Second country in the world ...

“Majority of them still find same-sex marriage to be unnatural, but with this court order, Nepal took its first step toward legalising same-sex marriage,” he said. In May, the supreme court ...

Sunil Pant, who was previously Nepal’s first openly gay member of parliament ... to form a committee to prepare a law legalizing same-sex marriage. In 2015 that committee recommended the ...

“It is historic,” said Pant, a former lawmaker, noting that it was the first ... same-sex marriage in Asia, where societies remain largely conservative. Hindu-majority Nepal has become ...

On November 29, Nepal registered its first same-sex marriage between Ram Bahadur (Maya) Gurung and Surendra Pandey. With this, the country has become the second in Asia — after Taiwan — to ...

AFP via Getty Images Nepal has registered its first same-sex marriage after years of legal wrangling. It is the first South Asian country to recognize a same-sex marriage. Maya Gurung, a ...

A gay couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it. "After 23 years of ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --Nepal on Wednesday became the first South Asian nation to officially recognize the legality of same-sex marriage when a 1997 marriage between a transgender woman and a gay man was ...

File Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA-EFE Nov. 29 (UPI) --Nepal on Wednesday became the first South Asian nation to officially recognize the legality of same-sex marriage when a 1997 marriage ...