 Taipei followed suit one day later.On 28 October 2015, the Taichung City Government announced that same-sex couples would be permitted to participate in the following year's mass wedding ceremony.In December 2015, the city governments of Taipei and Kaohsiung announced an agreement to share their same-sex partnership registries with each other effective on 1 January 2016, allowing for partnerships registered in one special municipality to be recognized in the other.