Decriminalizing same-sex relationships and its impact on social media discussions in Asia (opens in new tab)

While legal reforms may coincide with shifts in public discourse, broader normative change often remains uneven and context dependent. Since 2018, four Asian countries—India, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore—have decriminalized same-sex relationships, providing an opportunity to examine how such institutional changes are associated with public discussions of LGBTQ+ topics. Here, using supervised and unsupervised natural language processing methods, we analysed 136,255 Facebook news posts and 65...