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Thai parliament passes same-sex marriage bill
Thailand is set to become the first Southeast Asian nation to recognise equal marriage after politicians passed a same-sex marriage bill.
The lower house of parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of the bill, with 400 supporting its passage and just 10 against it in a final reading on Wednesday. Should the bill seize effect, Thailand would be just the third Asian country to legalise lgbtq+ marriage.
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end of listThe bill now requires approval from the country’s Senate, and finally endorsement from the king, before becoming law. More than a decade in the making, the legislation could take effect within 120 days of royal approval.
“I want to invite you all to make history,” said Danuphorn Punnakanta, chairman of the parliamentary committee, ahead of the vote. “We did this for all Thai people to reduce disparity in community and start creating equality.”
The legislation would change reference
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Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Australian National University
Abstract
Thailand is well known internationally for the size and vibrancy of its diverse and highly visible lgbtq+, lesbian and trans (kathoey) communities. In comparative studies of the histories of modern gay communities in Asian metropolises, such as Tokyo, Taipei and Bangkok, there has been considerable debate about whether local factors have been the driving forces in the rise of new lgbtq+ cultures or whether Asian societies have borrowed or imported these novel cultural forms from the West. In this article, we argue that in the later decades of the 20th century, Bangkok’s homosexual bars and magazines were significant local influences in the development of contemporary patterns of homoeroticism and gay culture in Thailand. We use Thailand’s first commercially successful gay magazine, Mithuna Junior, as a source of historical facts to understand the emergence of social and commercial connections between gay bars and urban middle-class male lover men in Bangkok during the 1980s and 1990s. As Thailand’s market economy gr
Thai king signs same-sex marriage bill into law
BBC News
Reporting fromSingapore
Thailand's king has signed a marriage equality bill into law, making the territory the first in South East Asia to recognise same-sex unions.
The bill cleared the Senate in June but required royal endorsement to become law. It was published in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday and will come into effect on 22 January next year.
Activists hailed the move as historic - it marks the conclusion of years of campaigning for marriage equality.
Thailand has long been seen as a relative haven for the LGBTQ+ community in a region where such attitudes are rare.
The unused law uses gender-neutral terms in place of "husbands", "wives", "men" and "women". And it grants gay couples adoption and inheritance rights.
“Today we’re not only getting to write our names in marriage certificates, but we are also writing a page in history... that tells us that love never put a condition of who we were born to be," Ann Chumaporn, a longtime LGBTQ+ activist and co-founder of the Bangkok Pride movement, told the BBC.
"It’s a triumph o
Gays in Thailand: Is it a LGBT friendly nation for tourism?
As in other countries, in Thailand’s LGTBI world good things coexist with bad things. And, like almost everything here, everything coexists with its contradictions, sometimes inescapable.
Homosexuality in Thailand and its contradictions
Yes, it is accurate that still today many Thais live in the closet, although I dare to estimate that they are a minority, especially among the younger generations. But transsexuals do not have any legal recognition regarding their sex convert. That is institutional discrimination, period. Egalitarian marriage does not yet exist. More institutional homophobia. These issues need urgent improvement in Thailand, and it is not clear when or how they will be solved.
…transsexuals do not have any legal recognition regarding their sex convert . That is institutional discrimination, period
However, this dark truths of the LGTBI planet gets quite relativized by the advantages of the day to day animation in Thailand.
The tolerance of Thai society means that gays, lesbians and trans -men and women alike- have a relatively free life to inhabit and express themselves as they are. Yes, I h
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