India, June 14 -- By Binod Prasad Adhikari

Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 (ANI): As the annual Pride parade commenced, hundreds of members of the LGBTQIA+ community took to the streets of Nepal's capital, celebrating the renaming of a ministry that now includes the term "sexual minorities" in its title. Following the election of Nepal's first transgender lawmaker and the latest recognition through the ministry's new name, the community is now eyeing the formation of laws which they have been demanding for a long time.

The annual pride parade, first since the formation of the new government under Balendra Shah after the Gen-Z protest, celebrated the formation of the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Securit...