{"id":62887,"date":"2024-03-27T20:10:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/thailand-poised-legalise-same-sex-marriage-parliament-passes-bill"},"modified":"2024-03-27T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:10:49","slug":"thailand-poised-to-legalise-same-sex-marriage-after-parliament-passes-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62887","title":{"rendered":"Thailand poised to legalise same-sex marriage after parliament passes bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to make country the first in south-east Asia to recognise same-sex unions<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in Thailand\u2019s lower house of parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill that would make the country the first in south-east Asia to legalise equal rights for marriage partners of any gender.<\/p>\n<p>Four hundred of 415 lawmakers present voted for the bill on Wednesday and footage from inside parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PheuThaiParty\/status\/1772915194777538833?s=20\">showed<\/a> people standing and applauding afterwards.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/thailand-poised-legalise-same-sex-marriage-parliament-passes-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to make country the first in south-east Asia to recognise same-sex unionsLawmakers in Thailand\u2019s lower house of parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill that would make the country the first in sout&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4180,"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":[41,2729,76,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-lgbtq-rights","category-marriage","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\/62887","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\/4180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62888,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62887\/revisions\/62888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}