What Nepal’s ministry rename means for the queer community—and what it doesn’t

By renaming a federal ministry to include ‘gender and sexual minorities,’ Nepal has made a historic symbolic shift. But citizenship, marriage and discrimination hurdles persist.

When Resham Neupane came across the news, they couldn’t believe it. A photo of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen’s new name—explicitly including the words ‘Gender and Sexual Minorities’—had popped up when they were lazily scrolling their Facebook feed one day earlier this month.