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Friday, April 26, 2024

Equality still a dream

People join the Thailand Pride Parade 2022 on Silom Road. The event is organised by the Bangkok-based APCOM Foundation to promote the rights of the LGBTI community. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

In the lead-up to its second reading, the civil partnership draft bill marks a decade since its inception, dating back to a gay couple who were denied legal recognition in 2012 because the law limits marriage to a man and a woman. Given the conservatism of earlier decades, civil partnership was “the first brick” at a time when marriage equality was almost inconceivable. However, history is often ignored. Despite its long journey in conjunction with the new bill, the uphill push for marriage rights will remain an…

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