Thailand’s senate voted by a wide margin to support a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Tuesday. This comes after its House of Representatives voted to approve the bill in March with near unanimity. Now, the bill must receive royal endorsement by King Maha Vajiralongkorn before entering into Thailand’s Royal Gazette as law.
The bill is an amendment to section 1448 of Thailand’s Civil and Commercial Code, which currently stipulates that marriage takes place between a “man and a woman.” The amendment uses gender-neutral language to allow for the possibility of recognizing…
