By The Isaan Record
There may have been no one more surprised than the rally’s organizer himself, Pornsit Raksaasap, when protesters took to the stage waving a LGBT Pride flag and calling for equal gender rights at the city’s first protest on August 2.
It wasn’t surprising for him to see LGBT people organize publicly in Thailand—LGBT activists are quite visible in cities like Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Neither was it surprising for him to see the LGBT community being political. After all, Pornsit is a member of the sole political party, Move Forward, with openly LGBT individuals seated in parliament pushing for national policies to ensure gender and sexual orientation rights.
But what might have been surprising for Pornsit was seeing LGBT people speaking out at a rally in, of all places, his home province, Sisaket.
What might have been even more surprising was the troubling…
