is lgbtq friendly, but it has legal obstacles that has to be overcome for full equality. obstacles that has to be overcome forfull equality. 0ne obstacles that has to be overcome forfull equality. one of obstacles that has to be overcome for full equality. one of the slogans they are using here about this march is that it is a gate to an equal asia because the situation is not the same in many of thailand s neighbours, countries like malaysia, indonesia, nothing like malaysia, indonesia, nothing like as many opportunities or as much recognition of the rights of lgbtq people and i think they are hoping spectacular events like this will push the agendas in those countries and perhaps the reason for a lot of the excitement you see here is this extraordinary election result we saw earlier this month, in the middle of last month, a young progressive party, move forward party, did spectacularly well including and its raft of wide reaching reform policy is a commitment to equal marriage and e