OBEC moves even more backwards
OBEC moves even more backwards
Education agency s latest blunder shows the disconnect between policymakers and the young generation when it comes to LGBTIs
published : 26 Jul 2021 at 04:30
EDUCATE YOURSELVES
What could go wrong when the Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) holds an online training session for its educational supervisors? Apparently, a lot of things.
In one part of the webinar, in a section titled Character Of True Friends , the speaker showed a picture of a group of effeminate schoolboys in an attempt to illustrate how social context can affect a person s character. Now, don t share this photo anywhere else because we didn t ask for [the students] permission [to use it], cautioned the speaker. And if we weren t already appalled that this came from someone who was training education staff, she went on to say: With kids, if their environment is like [in the photo], they can adjust to it. Maybe they re not likely
Mar 17, 2021
Thailand markets itself as a liberal destination for LGBTQ people and earns billions of tourist dollars from it, yet the nation still doesn’t recognize same-sex unions. That could change as soon as this year.
After nearly a decade, the country now has three potential paths toward recognizing same-sex partnerships, short of full marriage a same-sex-partnership bill that received the Cabinet’s nod in 2020, a proposed legal amendment that would allow same-sex marriage and a court ruling in April on the constitutionality of denying same-sex couples the right to marry.
These signs point to Thailand possibly becoming the next country in Asia to recognize gay partnerships, a significant move in a region that lags far behind Europe and the Americas in LGBTQ rights.
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Controversy amid camaraderie
Controversy amid camaraderie
Clubhouse is now a hit but academics said it s too soon to conclude if the audio application will become the next big social media platform
published : 3 Mar 2021 at 04:00 The social audio app Clubhouse is seen on a mobile phone. (Photo: Reuters)
In less than a year after its launch, Clubhouse is challenging the social media paradigm. From those old days when people tuned in to popular television and radio shows, now they can be invited by existing Clubhouse users to join virtual rooms where they can hear people speaking and raise hands to enter the discussion.
LGBT community vows to push harder in 2021
Covid-19 restrictions and further discrimination made last year a tough one, writes Nishrat Nakhata
published : 15 Feb 2021 at 04:30
135 A file photo shows a Pride Parade in the Silom area of Bangkok on Nov 7 last year. photos by Apichit Jinakul
As street protests came back last year pointing out pressing issues needing change in the country, the LGBT community joined the movement calling for more progress on gender equality too. And although 2021 is not a year to expect any leaps of progress, activism for the cause will continue.
In the wake of a day celebrating love, The Bangkok Post looks at how far the legal and social movement on gender issues has come, and how far it still has to go before LGBT relationships have the same status as heterosexual ones in Thailand.