Thailand has held its first official pride parade ahead of an important parliament vote on same-sex unions. Read more here:
Thailand's capital saw an explosion of glamour, gilt, and glitter on Sunday as the country's LGBTIQ+ community celebrated their first Pride parade in almost 16 years — but attendees warned true equality was still distant.
Allies and people of all genders, including drag artists, sex workers, feminists and even a few furries — people who are interested in or dress up as animal characters with human personalities — bounded down one of the megalopolis's main throughways for the first official parade since 2006."I feel so happy," said grinning drag queen Johnnie Phurikorn, who had paired his red lipstick with an exuberant scarlet ruffled dress for his first Pride.
While the Southeast Asian nation has a highly visible LGBTIQ+ community, many still face major hurdles and discrimination in the conservative Buddhist-majority kingdom. "We don't want more rights than other genders, we only want basic rights," she said, noting how the community still faced daily discrimination.
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