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Thailand Has Three Paths to Recognizing Same-Sex Partnerships

Photographer: Luke Duggleby/Bloomberg

Thailand markets itself as a liberal destination for LGBTQ people and earns billions of tourist dollars from it, yet the nation still doesn’t recognize same-sex unions. That could change as soon as this year.

After nearly a decade, the country now has three potential paths toward recognizing same-sex partnerships, short of full marriage — a same-sex-partnership bill that received the cabinet’s nod in 2020, a proposed legal amendment that would allow same-sex marriage and a court ruling in April on the constitutionality of denying same-sex couples the right to marry.

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