Schwule und Lesben können in Thailand jetzt heiraten und sind gleichgestellt
In a love story spanning almost two decades, Thai couple Ploynaplus Chirasukon and Kwanporn Kongpetch have resisted family attempts to separate them, come through a life-or-death medical emergency and endured living in the shadows of a society that only half-heartedly accepted them.
That finally changed this week. Dressed in shimmering, traditional Thai silk costumes, Plus and Gaye, as they’re known to their friends, cried tears of joy as they carefully inked their signatures on a marriage certificate that officially pronounced them spouses.
The graphic designer and the pastry chef, both in their early 30s, were among almost two thousand same-sex couples across the country who registered their unions on Thursday as legislation passed last year came into effect. Thailand joins roughly three dozen countries around the world in guaranteeing equal marital rights. It is the first to do so in Southeast Asia, where there has been little progress in recognizing the rights of the LGBTQ community.
LGBTQ activists fought for more than a decade for the same marital rights as heterosexual couples, even after legislation protecting the community from most kinds of discrimination was passed in 2015.
The new law recognizes marriage registrations of same-sex partners aged 18 and above, along with their rights to tax allowances, to inherit each other’s assets, to jointly adopt a child and to provide consent for medical treatments. It formally changes the definition of a marriage, from between “a man and a woman” to a union of “two individuals,” and swaps “husband and wife” for “spouses.”
Hier die ganze Story bei Bloomberg.
Man vergisst das schnell: Vor 25 Jahren war es für homosexuelle Menschen in keinem einzigen (!) Land der Welt möglich, zu heiraten. Von Our World in Data:
