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LGBT community vows to push harder in 2021

A file photo shows a Pride Parade in the Silom area of Bangkok on Nov 7 last year. photos by Apichit Jinakul

As street protests came back last year pointing out pressing issues needing change in the country, the LGBT community joined the movement calling for more progress on gender equality too. And although 2021 is not a year to expect any leaps of progress, activism for the cause will continue.

In the wake of a day celebrating love, The Bangkok Post looks at how far the legal and social movement on gender issues has come, and how far it still has to go before LGBT relationships have the same status as heterosexual ones in Thailand.

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