Posted on 01/23/2025 9:54:37 AM PST by nickcarraway
A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on Thursday (Jan 23) as the kingdom's same-sex marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so. Thai actors Apiwat "Porsch" Apiwatsayree, 49 - who was in tears - and Sappanyoo "Arm" Panatkool, 38, in matching beige suits, were handed their pink-bordered marriage certificates at a registry office in Bangkok.
"We fought for it for decades and today is a remarkable day that love is love," said Arm. The milestone sees Thailand become by far the biggest place in Asia to recognise equal marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal.
The law on marriage now uses gender-neutral terms in place of "men", "women", "husbands" and "wives", also clearing the way for transgender people to marry, and grants adoption and inheritance rights to all married couples.
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Once again, the West is forcing their ways on the world.
Double barf
Not the way I want to Thai the knot.
Thailand?
Thailand has never been colonized. Western influence though is a possible explanation, however.
100’s selfishly pulling their country down the crapper and into a godless society devoid of God’s blessings because they have twisted sexual desires that are abominations
🤢
More probable than possible. We Americans have many fine qualities, but aspects of our modern crude popular culture that is picked up by other peoples is not one of them.
Maybe those mentioned in the ‘sermon’ the other day,that fear for their lives (?), should head to Thailand and seek assylum.
Unlike the great wave of soldiers from WW2 finding girls upon their return home, this will not result in any spike in childbirth.
I see what you did their. Knotty knotty.
A massive Thai freak show. I wonder if Tammy Duckworth will be presiding.
ballon knots are going to get destroyed
David Carradine could Thai a knot.
But smoking is prohibited in most public places and many private ones; and you have to be real careful about even chewing gum.
and you have to be real careful about even chewing gum.
“I hope you brought enough for everybody!”
I must be getting old. Can remember the epic Thailand?? responses, but not the name of the scumbag that they caught there.
“The evils of colonialism....”Once again, the West is forcing their ways on the world.”
Nonsense. Gays were known historically in Thailand before any western period. They were not usually plentiful but existed and even noted in royal murals. Thailand actually, initially, became more sexually conservative due to rising influence of westerners from Europe.
Thailand has been this way for years; it’s where the original “ladyboys” were from.
It’s also been a child prostitution mecca for the longest time.
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