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HOMOSEXUALITY AND GAY LIFE IN THAILAND
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Predatg the Rattanakos era (1782 AD – prent), var temple murals pict homosexualy among Thai men and women acrdg to Chagmai-based Dutch journalist Sjon Hser’s observatns Transsexualy Northern Thailand Historil Not.
GAYS THAILAND: IS A LGBT IENDLY UNTRY FOR TOURISM?
“Whether or not Buddhism has been stmental fluencg the velopment of the popular Thai notn [of กะเทย “kathoey”, the Thai term monly ed wh, but is not limed to, transwomen, tersex dividuals, and effimate gay men], a very siar mixg of physil and psychologil sex, genr behavurs and sexualy occurs both the Pali terms [sic] pandaka and the Thai term kathoey. The book Queer Dharma: Voic of Gay Thailand transned om an absolute to a nstutnal monarchy 1932, the state propagated natnal culture by implementg tradnal ncepts of genr as one of the tools to tablish social orr as observed by St Barme, a visg fellow at the History Rearch School of Pacific and Asian Studi at the Atralian Natnal Universy his book Luang Wich Wathakan and the Creatn of a Thai Inty; and renowned Thai scholar Thongchai Wichakul his book Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Natn.