Lesbian Taiwan to swear in first openly gay lawmaker Tuesday

After overcoming anti-LGBTQ discrimination, skepticism about her age and criticism of her limited political experience, 31-year-old Huang Jie says her election to Taiwan's parliament as the island's first openly gay MP represents progress.

Democratic Taiwan is one of the most liberal societies in Asia and is hailed as a bastion for LGBTQ rights as the region's first to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019