Thailand’s plan to legalize same-sex marriage will take another step toward realization sometime later this year, with the country’s lawmakers set to approve a draft bill next week. On Thursday of last week, Bloomberg reported, a committee set up by the House of Representatives approved a draft amendment to the country’s Civil and Commercial Code … Read more
As social changes drag foreign ministries the world over into the 21st century, highly visible lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) diplomats have made themselves known. In 2014, the British consul general to Hong Kong and Macao married his husband in one of the first same-gender marriages performed in the British Embassy in Beijing. … Read more
Advertisement Most of the time, foreign ambassadors are anonymous, at least to the general public in their host countries. But on rare occasions, they pop into the public discourse – as Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, has done since taking up the post last year. Since then, Emanuel has become a target of … Read more