ABSTRACT
On May 24, 2017, the world was impressed by the decision made by the justices of the constitutional court in Taiwan regarding the constitutionality of the legal ban on same sex marriages. both the opposing opinions in such debate have assumed that social activities view these two paths, the legislative and the court, as contradictory to each other. This paper thus argue that the marriage equality movement in Taiwan viewed these strategies, both legislation and litigation, as parallel, rather than mutually exclusive, paths to achive its goal.