New Delhi, June 15 -- Hundreds of members of Nepal's LGBTQ+ community and their supporters took to the streets of Kathmandu on Saturday to celebrate Pride Month.

Nepal has a growing LTGTQ+ community and has made significant gains for the rights of sexual minorities in the past few years.

The government elected in March under Prime Minister Balendra Shah has formed the Ministry of Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security, the first time a department has been dedicated to deal with the issues of women and sexual minorities.

Nepal became one of the first in Asia to allow same-sex marriage. The 2015 constitution explicitly states there can be no discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

A 2007 court decis...