LGBTQ+ advocacy groups at the second are turning to the opposition Pheu Thai Party for his or her support on attaining marriage equality in Thailand. This is approaching the heels of a serious Constitutional Court ruling that essentially upheld the ban on same-sex marriage in the country. These groups are campaigning to revise the Civil and Commercial Code, which in the intervening time only acknowledges marriage as being ‘between a man and a woman.’

A collective known as the Rainbow Fellows for Marriage Equality, which is a coalition of 58 totally different LGBTQ+ rights groups, sent an open letter to the leader of the Pheu Thai Party Cholnan Srikaew. The Rainbow Fellows hope that they can get a million signatures on a petition to redraft Section 1448, stories the Bangkok Post.
This is the statute of the Civil and Commercial Code that bans gay marriage. Specifically, the group needs the wording in part 1448 to be rewritten. They call for the words “husband” and “wife” to be switched to “spouse,” and they need the words “father” and “mother” to be modified to “parent.”

According to the Post, Cholnan helps the LGBTQ+ movement and the party means to current a draft amendment invoice to parliament. A earlier attempt to cross a civil partnership bill was shot down, according to the director of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department. โซล่าเซลล์ despatched the draft of the invoice again to supporters with the demand that they describe the exact variety of people that it would benefit. The director mentioned that ascertaining the exact number of LGBTQ+ people in Thailand was inconceivable and that the request was simply part of a political sport..