Contents:
- THE BTER TTH BEHD THAILAND'S GAY-IENDLY IMAGE
- HOMOSEXUALITY AND GAY LIFE IN THAILAND
- THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
THE BTER TTH BEHD THAILAND'S GAY-IENDLY IMAGE
Thailand wel lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) visors: s tourism thory targets the LGBT market, and Bangkok is often the only Asian cy clud on lists of gay-iendly tourist statns around the world. Among Thais between 15 and 24 years old, 56 per cent thk homosexualy is wrong, acrdg to recent rearch by Khon Thai Foundatn, a non-prof anisatn. By parison, more than 70 per cent of young people Japan, South Korea, the Philipp and wtern European untri thk that homosexualy should be accepted by society at large, acrdg to the Pew Rearch Centre, an Amerin thk-tank.
HOMOSEXUALITY AND GAY LIFE IN THAILAND
In a untry where nearly 95 per cent of people are Buddhists, many believe that gay or transgenr people suffer om bad karma for mtg adultery their past liv.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE GAY KGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND
“I fd surprisg that Thailand, beg one of the most gay-iendly untri [for foreigners], do not have laws that support and protect the LGBT muny, ” says L’Estrange, an Irish-Amerin who has lived here for almost 10 years.
The Anjaree Group, Thailand’s largt lbian and gay rights activist anisatn, has cricised the bill for not grantg homosexual upl the same rights as their heterosexual unterparts. “There are no openly gay people high-rankg offic who n fluence the change both law and attu, ” says Suppakorn Chudabala, a gay rights rearcher.
“The first step advotg for LGBT rights is to te people that beg homosexual or transsexual is not wrong, ” Suppakorn says.