{"id":55681,"date":"2023-06-03T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/optimism-is-high-for-bangkok-pride-after-thai-elections"},"modified":"2023-06-03T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T04:00:20","slug":"time-of-new-hope-optimism-is-high-for-bangkok-pride-after-thai-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55681","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time of new hope\u2019: Optimism is high for Bangkok Pride after Thai elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters rejected Prayuth Chan-ocha in favour of parties promising reform, including greater LGBTQ+ rights such as equal marriage<\/p>\n<p>When rainbow colours cover one of Bangkok\u2019s main thoroughfares on Sunday, crowds joining the city\u2019s pride celebrations may feel a little more optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n<p>In an election last month, Thai voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/thailand-election-2023-national-elections-opposition-parties-crushing-blow-military-rule-junta\">firmly rejected Prayuth Chan-ocha<\/a>, a former coup-maker who has ruled the country for nine years, in favour of opposition parties promising reform, including greater LGBTQ+ rights such as equal marriage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/03\/optimism-is-high-for-bangkok-pride-after-thai-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters rejected Prayuth Chan-ocha in favour of parties promising reform, including greater LGBTQ+ rights such as equal marriageWhen rainbow colours cover one of Bangkok\u2019s main thoroughfares on Sunday, crowds joining the city\u2019s pride celebrations may fe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"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":[41,2729,859,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbtq-rights","category-pride","category-thailand","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\/55681","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\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55682,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55681\/revisions\/55682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}