For all of Thailand's general tolerance of LGBT people, getting equal rights, including marriage, required a determined campaign to change attitudes in Thai officialdom and society. And attitudes ...
Hundreds of same-sex couples in Thailand tied the knot on Thursday as a landmark legislation took effect, making it the first nation in Southeast Asia to recognise marriage equality. Thailand’s ...
Pastors prioritize personal relationships and talking directly with LGBTQ people who show up at their churches.
Thailand's long-awaited same-sex marriage law came into effect, with more than a thousand couples thought to have officially tied the knot already. The legislation comes after years of campaigning, ...
Thailand joins Nepal and Taiwan as the only Asian nations to legalise LGBT unions, amid repressive regimes and religious traditions ...
But with neighboring Thailand’s same-sex marriage law coming into force last month, that dream suddenly feels within reach.
Once signed into law by the King, Thailand will become the third Asian country to recognize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal. Once the law is approved by the Senate and the King ...
Thailand is famously open to and accepting of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people "It has been a long fight full of tears for us." That is how Ann "Waaddao" Chumaporn describes the years that ...
Buddhist beliefs, followed by more than 90% of Thais, don't forbid LGBT lifestyles. Surely, then, equal marriage was inevitable. Except it wasn't. "It was not easy," says Ms Waaddao, who organises ...