Since the Netherlands became the first to enjoy same-sex organizations in 2001, more than 30 nations around the world have legalized relationship for all.
Last month, India’s highest court delayed a decision on the matter to parliament, and the highest court in Hong Kong came close to granting full relationship right.
LONG STRUGGLE
For more than ten years, Thai protesters have been fighting for same-sex unions, but their efforts have failed in a nation where uprisings and mass street demonstrations often upend politics.
Transgender activists held a pull show in Bangkok on Friday to show their support for the law’s implementation.
Apiwat Apiwatsayree, a well-known number in Thailand’s LGBTQ community, and his companion Sappanyoo Panatkool, who have been together for 17 times, are among those who have been waiting for the law to move so they can eventually marry.
” We’ve been waiting for a long time”, Apiwat, 49, told AFP on Friday.
” As soon as it becomes law, we may get file our relationship”.
Former prime minister Srettha Thavisin, who was outspoken about his support for the Gay group, helped push the bill through congress.
He stated to investigators last year that he believed the change would improve family structures and made wedding justice a hot topic.
In an morality event in August, Srettha was ordered to step down as prime minister by a court order to be replaced by Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of questionable ex-prime secretary Thaksin Shinawatra.