Voters rejected Prayuth Chan-ocha in favour of parties promising reform, including greater LGBTQ+ rights and equal marriage
Voters rejected Prayuth Chan-ocha in favour of parties promising reform, including greater LGBTQ+ rights such as equal marriageWhen rainbow colours cover one of Bangkok’s main thoroughfares on Sunday, crowds joining the city’s pride celebrations may feel a little more optimistic about the future., a former coup-maker who has ruled the country for nine years, in favour of opposition parties promising reform, including greater LGBTQ+ rights such as equal marriage.
Nahmmoei, 28, was kicked out of her family home when she told her parents she had a girlfriend. She began posting videos about her relationship on social media, “to show we have a normal life and that if you are lesbian, if you love girls, it doesn’t mean you have an unstable love”, she says. She developed a big online following, and uses her platform to also address wider LGBTQ+ issues, including the need for legal reform.
“There are so many subtle things obstructing LGBT people from getting equal access to any kind of welfare, or rights in this country. I cannot really call it paradise,” says Tinnaphop Sinsomboonthong, a queer scholar and assistant professor at Thammasat University’s faculty of sociology and anthropology. “But I don’t want to call it hell, as well. It’s not hell.”
While the main activist leaders primarily called for reforms to the country’s powerful military and monarchy, smaller protest groups emerged, demanding greater gender and LGBTQ+ equality including in schools and other areas of life.
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