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A 2025 study commissioned by travel company Agoda projected that the Marriage Equality Act will create 152,000 full-time jobs and increase Thailand's GDP by 0.3%. [15] The law is projected to attract an additional 4 million tourists annually and generate approximately $2 billion in revenue.
Thailand is the third in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage after Taiwan in 2019 and Nepal four years later. A gay couple makes a toast during a mass wedding banquet in front of the Presidential ...
Thailand has long been known as a haven for LGBTQ+ communities. It is only the third place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, behind Taiwan in 2019 and Nepal in 2023. Meet the first couples to ...
On 18 June 2024, Thailand passed the same-sex marriage bill with the approval of 130 of the 152 members of the Senate in attendance, with 4 voting against it and 18 abstaining. Thailand was the first Asian UN member state to approve a comprehensive same-sex marriage law, as well as the first in Southeast Asia and the 37th in the world.
In May 1928, Thai media reported the story of a marriage between two women in Bangkok. One of the spouses was shot dead a month later. [35] In September 2011, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Sexual Diversity Network proposed draft legislation on same-sex marriage and called on the Thai Government to support its legalisation.
Thailand will become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after the kingdom’s Senate approved a marriage equality bill on Tuesday, with supporters calling it a ...
Hundreds of LGBT+ couples in Thailand began making their wedded status legal Thursday, 23 January, the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples. The ...
Recognition of same-sex unions in Thailand → Same-sex marriage in Thailand – Consistency with other same-sex marriage articles. Panda2024 20:01, 7 October 2024 (UTC) Support Because a comprehensive same-sex marriage law was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of the legislature. It received royal assent from the King and was published in ...