Our interview video series — celebrating love and exploring the meaning of family in Thailand where same-sex marriage isn’t legal yet

Our interview video series — celebrating love and exploring the meaning of family in Thailand where same-sex marriage isn’t legal yet

Our interview video series — celebrating love and exploring the meaning of family in Thailand where same-sex marriage isn’t legal yet

‘To Dream The Impossible Dream’: Thai LGBTQ’s Life Journey and Self-Discovery Through Representations in Media

The first-ever LGBTQ Pride Parade, “Chiang Mai Pride 2019” in the north of Thailand

Our 3-day festival’s highlight & interview at the first Yangon Pride 2019 in Myanmar

How do Thai-Chinese deal with big family gathering during Chinese New Year?

There was a heat discussion on the topic, “Can LGBT be a teacher in Thailand?” (LGBT เป็นครูได้หรือไม่?) on Thai social media in January 2019. THE STANDARD interviews high school and university student on their views on the topic.

In July 2018, Seoul Queer Parade was held as a part of as a part of 19th Seoul Queer Culture Festival (2018 퀴어문화축제). More than 30,000 Korean LGBTQ and allies came out on streets to celebrate love, diversity and equality while living in conservative society.

Thailand’s ‘toms’ (as in tomboys) inhabit a unique place on the gender spectrum. They are girls who dress and act in a masculine way, typically sporting a uniform look of short hair, t-shirts and jeans. But toms don’t consider themselves trans or even lesbians, despite the fact that they date women (often girly ‘dees’ or other toms).

In this short documentary, we explore the world of tom culture and Thailand’s complex girl-girl relationships.

In Thailand, cover dancing is viewed a gender-free activity. The dance community offers a safe space for LGBT youth to freely express themselves. Such as this group who call themselves “ITEMx”.

This short film follows ITEMx to their first tryout for the Esplanade Cover Dance Season 3 competition and the love journey between Jam and Milk, members of ITEMx.