Thailand is set to become the first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage after the country’s House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill yesterday. The legislation was passed by 400 of the 415 lawmakers present, with only 10 voting against it, according to Reuters. The decade-long Thai campaign for same-sex marriage has … Read more
Story highlights Opposition parties say no to a national vote on same-sex marriage Australia is one of the last Western countries without same-sex marriage TheStarsHub — Australia’s parliament is almost certain to vote down a national referendum on same-sex marriage, potentially delaying marriage equality in the country for years. Though it backs same-sex marriage, the … Read more
International IDEA’s latest Global State of Democracy report found something somewhat unexpected about democratic trends in Asia and the Pacific: the broad democratic decline of recent years across the region had mostly come to a halt. This does not mean that the trend has reversed. The overlapping crises of inflation, high sovereign debt levels, and … Read more
Advertisement Ten months ago, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the city-state would do away with Section 377A, a colonial-era law prohibiting same-sex relations between consenting men. Since then, queer people have had to navigate an uneasy new reality in which male homosexuality is no longer a crime, while public discourse and mainstream media … Read more