The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the government to register same-sex marriages on Wednesday, June 28, making the Himalayan nation of 30 million people the second country in Asia where same-sex marriage is legal. The order is the culmination of a fifteen-year-long battle for equal marriage that began shortly after the country transitioned to democracy in 2007. That year, laws criminalizing sodomy were repealed, and the Supreme Court ordered the new government to change all laws that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. #LGBTQ+ Civil Rights