{"id":45148,"date":"2022-06-04T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/bangkok-pride-parade-new-hope-lgbt-rights"},"modified":"2022-06-04T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T20:00:19","slug":"like-a-bridge-that-connects-us-pride-parade-comes-to-bangkok-amid-new-hope-for-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45148","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like a bridge that connects us\u2019: Pride parade comes to Bangkok amid new hope for LGBT rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Event returns for first time in many years on Sunday as city appoints governor vocal in supporting LGBT community<\/p>\n<p>Kath Khangpiboon has seen many joyful Pride parades abroad. She has watched in Spain and Canada as young people and families joined celebrations under the rainbow flag. Now, she is looking forward to seeing Pride in her city: Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel so much pride that an activity like this is happening,\u201d says Kath, who is a lecturer at Thammasat University and a trans activist. Bangkok Naruemit Pride on 5 June \u2013 believed to be the first official Pride parade in the Silom area of Thailand\u2019s capital for more than 15 years \u2013 comes as the city appoints its new governor, Chadchart Sittipunt, an independent politician who has been vocal in his support for LGBT rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/03\/bangkok-pride-parade-new-hope-lgbt-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event returns for first time in many years on Sunday as city appoints governor vocal in supporting LGBT communityKath Khangpiboon has seen many joyful Pride parades abroad. She has watched in Spain and Canada as young people and families joined celebra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,72,93,572,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbt-rights","category-thailand","category-transgender","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45149,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148\/revisions\/45149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}