Nepal’s Maya Gurung (R) and Surendra Panday wear traditional attire as they take part in a gay Pride parade in Kathmandu, Nepal, in August. On Wednesday, their marriage became the first officially ...

Image by Todd Franson Subscribe free to Metro Weekly’s digital magazine for the stories that matter most. A battle six years in the making was finally won as Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandley’s ...

Experiencing a Nepali marriage reveals a rich cultural world that many outsiders rarely get to see. From the rituals to the interactions between families, every moment reflects values rooted in ...

At the end of November, Nepal’s government recognized a marriage between Nepalis of the same legal gender for the first time. But while the jubilant celebration undoubtedly deserves attention, various ...

The Nepal Supreme Court’s June 28 ruling requiring the government to register same-sex relationships follows an arduous struggle to achieve marriage equality in the South Asian nation. This historic ...

Same-sex couple Surendra Pandey, right, and Maya Gurung in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha “We are going to fight until the very end!” said Surendra ...

Lamjung’s Dordi Rural Municipality on Wednesday became the first local government to register and recognise same-sex marriages in Nepal. Authorities of Ward-2 od Dordi Rural Municipality registered ...

Experiencing a Nepali marriage opened my eyes to a depth of culture and tradition I never expected. Every moment carried ...

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 ...

The Constitution of Nepal, adopted in 2015, explicitly states that there can be no discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Five months after the Supreme Court legalised it, Nepal on ...

The marriage between 36-year-old Ram Bahadur (Maya) Gurung, who was born male but identifies as female, and Surendra Pandey, 26, who was born and identifies as male, was formally registered at the ...