RECOGNIZING SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS IN THAILAND

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ABSTRACT

        Scholars writing on South, Southeast and East Asia generally find, over time, more tolerance of sex and gender variation than in the West.  This tolerance or acceptance was countered by colonialism, with anti-homosexual criminal laws enacted for all British colonies, and new German sexology accepted as modern science.  Most of the time there was no aggressive enforcement of the criminal laws, but we have scattered reports of police harassment.  Equality and non-discrimination features in a few laws and judicial decisions in the region, including two decisions in Chiang Mai relating to transsexuals participating in public parades and festivals.  Gradually Western legal systems have given some legal recognition to same-sex relationships, whether by ascription, systems of registration or the opening of marriage.  Some progress in considering such reforms has been occurring in China, Taiwan, Nepal, Vietnam and Thailand.  

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14456/cmujlss.2013.8