Thailand
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ’10s ACROSS THE BORDERS’ documentary about the ballroom scenes in The Phillipines & Thailand
New York’s legendary ballroom scene continues to make an impact around the world. Ball culture was famously immortalised in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, which examined the mid-to-late 80s African-American, LatinX, queer, and trans-led scene, which was founded by Crystal LaBeija in 1968. Madonna then came calling with Vogue, and more recently, Ryan Murphy’s 2018 drama…
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THAILAND has allocated millions to the National Health Security Office to provide health services for its 200,000 transgender citizens
On the heels of all the major cuts that Trumps administration has made to the trans community as part of their campaign to destroy it completely, there is at least good news from the other side of the world in a country is intent on helping those in need. Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has…
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Love Is Love: Thailand celebrates with one enormous wedding of 300 Same Sex Couples.
Today, in Thailand, February 23, same sex marriages are now legal to be registered due to Thailand’s move toward full marriage equality, and QUEERGURU was on site in the person of Paul Overdijk, co-chair advisory board at Workplace Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands, who sent us these wonderful pictures he took at the mass wedding…
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Queerguru’s man-in-Thailand Glenn John is getting ready to celebrate Marriage Equality (and maybe witness a new Guinness World Record)
On January 22, Thailand Adopts “True” Marriage Equality Historically, Thailand has always been incredibly more tolerant of LGBTQ persons. So much so, that it probably hampered any big rush legislatively or among the populace to codify “gay” rights here such as same sex marriage. The tolerance and acceptance of gays is ingrained — especially if…
