The law, which was approved by the Senate in June, will come into force on 22 January next year.

Thailand’s king has signed a marriage equality bill into law, making the country the first in South East Asia to recognise same-sex unions. The bill cleared the Senate in June but required royal endorsement to become law. It was published in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday and will come into effect on 22 January next year.

    • @HonoraryMancunianEnglish
      6•2 months ago

      The yellow on that map looks different to the yellow on the key

      • TheTechnician27English
        8•2 months ago

        There are three yellows: one for unenforced prison for intercourse, one for just general but unenforced restrictions on expression, and one for countries that resrict association like Russia and a few neighboring states (slightly orange). I can check later to see if the key matches the map, but it seems to my untrained eye like it does.

        • @HonoraryMancunianEnglish
          5•2 months ago

          Just checked in a different browser — turns out my default one with dark mode screws up the colours

  • JaggedRobotPubesEnglish
    38•2 months ago

    It’s so baffling that this is still an issue anywhere.

    I know widespread acceptance is very recent but I stand by my bafflement.

    • @ABCDEOP
      29•2 months ago

      It depends how old you are, and your perception of time. If you were born after 2000 and in a relatively liberal democracy, it’s all you’ve ever know and can consider to be normal. If you were born in the 80s, you may have experienced being called “gay” or “homo” at school and seen LGBT people as perhaps bad, or felt shame for your own inclinations. If you were born a few decades earlier, you will very possibly have been against the concept of changing marriage as it had always existed as one thing, and changing it would be akin to changing the constitution which you’ve stood by your whole life.

      • Flying Squid
        17•2 months ago

        Yep. I was born in 1977. To my shame, I used to use words like ‘gay’ (or worse) as an insult when I was a kid.

  • @[email protected]English
    19•2 months ago

    Wow good on Thailand! I’m shocked not sooner considering all the lady-boy stuff going on lol. Think they’d be down for that kinda stuff.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 months ago

    Was he in Thailand for that? From what I hear, he spends most of his time in Bavaria, Germany.

    • @ABCDEOP
      10•2 months ago

      I think he just swans back when it’s convenient to keep up appearances.

  • @xc2215x
    7•2 months ago

    Good move from the Thai king.