{"id":64990,"date":"2024-06-18T08:32:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/thailand-same-sex-marriage-equality-vote-bill-legislation"},"modified":"2024-06-18T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T08:22:20","slug":"thailand-on-the-brink-of-legalising-same-sex-marriage-in-historic-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64990","title":{"rendered":"Thailand passes historic bill recognising marriage equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country on track to become third in Asia \u2013 after Taiwan and Nepal \u2013 to legalise same-sex marriage<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s senate has passed the final reading of a historic marriage equality bill, paving the way for the country to become the first in south-east Asia to recognise same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The bill gained the support of nearly all upper-house lawmakers and will be sent to the palace for the pro-forma endorsement by King Maha Vajiralongkorn. The law will come into force 120 days after it is published in the royal gazette.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/thailand-same-sex-marriage-equality-vote-bill-legislation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country on track to become third in Asia \u2013 after Taiwan and Nepal \u2013 to legalise same-sex marriageThailand\u2019s senate has passed the final reading of a historic marriage equality bill, paving the way for the country to become the first in south-east Asia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,53,86,2729,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-law","category-lgbtq-rights","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65023,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990\/revisions\/65023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}