"Beg LGBT Asia” is a ground-breakg, first-of-s-kd iative to support Asia’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people. It works to bolster basic LGBT rights across the ntent and specific foc untri cludg Cha, Indonia, the Philipp and Thailand. In 2014, the Embassy of Swen Bangkok, through the sectn for Regnal Development Cooperatn, joed the U.S. Agency for Internatnal Development (USAID) and the Uned Natns Development Programme (UNDP) as a lead fundg partner, raisg the profile of regnal anizatns and stutns addrsg LGBT rights issu. The program will be implemented through 2017.
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Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * lgbt asia *
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The LGBT legal x measur the current legal stat of 13 different issu rangg om the legal stat of homosexualy, same-sex marriage, transgenr rights, LGBT discrimatn protectns, LGBT censorship laws, and more. Each topic is assigned a "total possible sre" and a "sre" is assigned based the stat of the law g a ratg sle that rang om 0% to 100% (for example, if homosexualy is legal, would would receive a sre of 100, but if 's illegal, would receve a sre of 0. Homosexual activy100Legal×1.
00Lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people banned×0.
Beg LGBT Asia’ Thailand Country Report – a jot analysis by the Uned Natns Development Programme (UNDP) and the U.S. Agency for Internatnal Development (USAID) – highlights a ntradictn between Thailand’s public face of tolerance toward LGBT muni and the realy of discrimatn toward them. The report found that while the tourism thory actively promot Thailand as a gay-iendly tourist statn, acceptance of non-tradnal sexuali society is still perceived to be low. * lgbt asia *
Especially more nservative regns, surveys are ually limed to homosexualy or same-sex marriage. Recent stanc of censorship suggt Cha’s LGBTQ muny will face more explic official homophobia the future. A recent directive to broadsters banned pictns of “sissy” men, soon after a polemic state-n media nounced effemate men as a sign of rpt Wtern fluence the entertament LGBTQ activists and homophobic bloggers view creased censorship as a sign the polil wds are shiftg to an actively anti-LGBTQ policy, triggerg more utn among activists and more aggrsive harassment om their opponents.
While Cha’s LGBTQ muny remas active and rilient, s already limed opportuni to create social and polil change have been sharply Korea: Harnsg Onle ActivismSouth Korea’s LGBTQ muny has faced heightened homophobia amid the panmic. In May 2020, the ernment’s ntact tracg app texted the public that a COVID-19 patient had vised a gay club Itaewon.
Asi om the privacy ncerns stemmg om the inty disclosure, the cint released a wave of homophobic sentiment. South Korean media foced on the patient’s sexual orientatn, fuelg public stigma agast the LGBTQ muny as “disease-spreadg gays. A Korean LGBTQ activist group publicly nounced homophobic ments on LGBTQ people a statement sayg, “[A] person’s disease do not jtify hatred and discrimatn agast one’s sexual orientatn.
Beg LGBTI Asia is a first-of-s-kd iative to support Asia’s lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people. It works to bolster basic LGBTI rights across the regn and specific foc untri cludg Cha, the Philipp, Thailand and Vietnam. In 2014, the Embassy of Swen Bangkok, through the sectn for Regnal Development * lgbt asia *
Sce nservative policians mostly secure vot om church-based muni, they are prsured to nform to tradnalist Christians’ re polil beliefs, cludg opposg pro-LGBTQ bills to halt “the spread” of homosexualy.
In July, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je me unr fire for llg “gay groups” a “problem” COVID-19 preventn efforts, whout offerg evince or explanatn. His ments served to perpetuate stigmatizatn of the LGBTQ muny and historil prejudice seeg gay people as “diseased.
But sce Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP took on the mantle of champns for same-sex marriage, LGBTQ rights has trend toward beg a partisan polil issue, wh nservative pro-KMT and often relig elements spreadg homophobic disrmatn durg electns 2018 and 2020. Explaed: gay rights, LGBTQ and same-sex marriage Asia.