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Celebrations marking the beginning of marriage equality in Thailand are underway at the Government House.
Source: Thai Enquirer
Wooooo congratulations Thailand 🎉🎉🥳🥳
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THIS IS SO GREAT IM SO HAPPY FOR EVERYONE THAT MANAGED TO GET THAT OPPORTUNITY!!!! LOVE WINS!!!!
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The state of Utah in the United States has no citizenship requirements for marriage licenses, and Utah County is the only place there that allows international couples to register their marriages online. Since the county rolled out virtual weddings during the Covid-19 pandemic, it became a wedding haven for same-sex couples who are not able to officially marry in their own countries.
As sexual minorities in China face suppression at home, Utah County is allowing them to officially marry and celebrate their love — all for around $100. Although the marriages aren’t recognized in China, some 200 same-sex couples from mainland China and Hong Kong have gotten married via the county’s digital marriage license system since 2021.
For authorities in Utah County, the influx of international couples came as a surprise. The Utah County and Auditor’s Office moved its marriage licensing service online, as part of a digitization initiative in 2019. At the start of the pandemic, a number of couples requested Zoom ceremonies, and the county made those available as well.
The service first attracted couples in Utah, followed by people from across the U.S., and later, from all over the world. From May 1 to September 20 this year, at least 77 same-sex couples with mainland Chinese addresses have been married there, said county deputy clerk Russ Rampton, who oversees marriage licensing, to Rest of World.
Although same-sex marriage remains illegal in Hong Kong, under a different set of laws to mainland China, residents who get married in other places are able to apply for dependent visas in the city for their partners. Married gay people are also able to mark themselves as married in tax filings.
In his vow, however, [one marriage certificate applicant] Zhu said he was looking forward to getting married a second time — in China. “If one day our country allows this, I hope we could get married again in this country,” Zhu said to his husband before they kissed.
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Marriage equality does not stop in the West.
Rb if your account is safe space for
-LGBTQ+
-People from every nation
-All religions
-Dark skin people
-Asian people
-Uyghur Turks and Muslims
-People with mental disorders
-People with illness
-Neurodivergent people
W H A T ??
reminder this pride month that disabled people in the US on SSI and SSDI do not have the same marriage equality as people not on SSI and SSDI. its called the marriage penalty.
by getting married, a disabled person can lose their income, benefits, and health insurance.
if a disabled person marries an able bodied person, and combined their assets are $3000 or over they will lose all benefits, including medicaid (health insurance).
if a disabled person marries a disabled person, their assistance is lowered 25%.
we don’t have marriage equality until all disabled marriages are equal.
sources x x x x
The Marriage Equality Law has been enacted in Thailand...
The news that His Majesty, the King has signed and approved the Marriage Equality Law was announced in the Royal Gazette today, September 24, 2024. This means that the law will officially come into effect on January 22, 2025!!!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
What new changes has the law brought into effect?
- Two individuals can marry regardless of gender
- The minimum age for marriage has been raised from 17 to 18 (You will still need parental consent to marry should you be under the age of 20, which is what Thailand considers a "legal adult")
- Thai citizens can register their foreign marriages under Thai Law (I am very happy to see this being specified as I wasn't sure it would be-- big excitement for someone who has a 'foreign' partner)
- Joint Adoptions are allowed
- Spouses have the right to inherit after spousal death
- Spouses can be assigned as medical proxies to make any/all medical decisions for their spouse
- Spouses gain rights under social security law: including compensation and retirement benefits in case of spousal death
- Spouses are entitled to tax benefits, including personal income tax deductions
[SOURCE]
Looking to the future, there is currently a draft for the "Gender Identity Recognition Act" that, I desperately hope, is on its way to parliament 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾
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THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY BILL HAS PASSED IN THAILAND.
It will be published in Thailand’s Royal Gazette for 120 days and become law.
HAPPY PRIDE TO THAILAND!!!!!!! 🏳️🌈
As disabled members of the lgbt community we should be celebrating marriage equality, right? but unfortunately us disabled people who rely on government support to survive risk losing everything and becoming totally financially reliant on our partners if we marry or even move in together.
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In 2009, an Iowa Supreme Court decision recognized same-sex marriage for the first time. Almost 14 years later, there's a new push to take Iowa backwards and ban marriage equality again.
The new bill introduced by Rep. Luana Stoltenberg and several other GOP lawmakers on Tuesday will ban marriage equality in Iowa's Constitution. It's just one of over 20 bills introduced this session that target families and the LGBTQ+ community in Iowa.
We've got 48 hours to stop this bill to make sure it doesn't come up for a vote in the Iowa House.
Please sign this petition to tell Rep. Stoltenberg & other Iowa GOP lawmakers that IOWA WILL NOT GO BACK. Marriage equality is here to stay!
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Marriage Equality & Empathy
Nobuko Yoshiya, a Japanese author, was one of the countries first to publish lesbian fiction, her first work starting serialization in 1916. She was a lesbian, and found love in a mathematics teacher in an all girls school in the early 20s. At the time, as you can probably guess, Japan did not (and still does not) have marriage equality. Luxuries such as sharing property, tax relief or even medical decisions for each other were not offered to gay couples at the time. The couple did obtain these benefits though: Nobuko adopted her lover of 30 years. What is marriage, after all, if not becoming family? This solved their issues, but I’m sure readers may pick up on another one it created.
Becoming family through marriage is one thing, but adoption would put them in the realm of incest, even if it’s by a technicality. Fortunately, incest is legal in Japan, and in many other countries. The couple encountered no issues with legally being mother-daughter, and recouped some benefits otherwise denied to them due to marriage inequality.
I’m sure all but the most stubborn of people could accept their odd arrangement: after all, they were in an established relationship beforehand, and it’s not like they are actually related. No one would call this relationship incestuous.
If they were to have the same or a similar arrangement in America, they would potentially face anywhere from 2 years to a lifetime in prison. Two adults, in a loving relationship, going to prison for years or decades. Now, obviously they would not have to enter such an arrangement in America since we have Marriage Equality right?
Many people will remember the Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) push and subsequent win for gay marriage in 2015. I certainly do, I was driving at the time and had to pull off to the highway shoulders so I could recover properly. It was an amazing win, and certainly a moment I will never forget. But I think calling it Marriage Equality is dishonest. It isn’t equal unless all consenting relationships can marry, and related couples can not marry. This includes cases like Nobuko and her “daughter”, it includes cases of people who meet later in life and discover they are full or half-blooded siblings. It includes cases of people who meet as adults due to a parent remarrying, and feel a spark of attraction.
What are these laws protecting against? Do these couples not deserve their love recognized? The ability to make medical decisions for each other if the worst were to happen? To share ownership of their dream home?
The common response is “it’s to prevent birth defects or weakening the gene pool.” This response is the most concerning to me, because it implies a direct connection between marriage and having children. Marriage is not about building a family together for everyone, and it is entirely possible to start a family outside of marriage (as many people choose to do, or are forced to do.) It highlights the assumption that the purpose of marriage is children, which, speaking as a gay person, is an uncomfortable assumption to make.
There are of course other responses about the sanctity of marriage (divorce does away with that quite well), it’s disgusting (this should sound familiar for anyone who was gay in the 90s), it’s unnatural (again, feels very familiar), etc.
People can not see themselves having this sort of relationship, so they can’t empathize with the situation. They think it is an uncommon occurrence. It is something that doesn’t need discussed because it just is “always wrong.”
In 2015, when I pulled off to cry at hearing that gay marriage was now federally legalized, I didn’t cry because I was in a gay relationship, hoping to be married. At the time, I was in a straight relationship actually. I wouldn’t figure out I was gay for another year, largely in part due to the ruling. I cried because I saw a struggle of people who deserved the same rights I had, and while I couldn’t completely understand their feelings, I believed them to be genuine.
Years from now, I hope I get to pull off another highway, or excuse myself from a conversation, and cry again because of another victory for marriage equality. I hope that the couples out there who desperately wish to marry get their chance. I don’t condemn anyone for feelings I may not understand, just like what was afforded us in the years leading up to the 2015 ruling.
I’m painting my nails to Queen and thinking about queer history (warning: hate crimes, violence, homophobia, transphobia)
I’m painting my nails to Queen
And thinking about queer history,
Bloodied,
Beautiful,
Weather-worn.
The artists that allow
My type in men to sparkle,
Gorgeous,
Pretty,
Free.
Don’t talk,
Save me.
Fights over love renewing
With people’s being
Free perceived
Threatening.
I want to break free.
You go Thailand I hope there is more acceptance following
Wooooo congratulations Thailand 🎉🎉🥳🥳
🏳️🌈
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The Marriage Equality Law has been enacted in Thailand...
The news that His Majesty, the King has signed and approved the Marriage Equality Law was announced in the Royal Gazette today, September 24, 2024. This means that the law will officially come into effect on January 22, 2025!!!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
What new changes has the law brought into effect?
- Two individuals can marry regardless of gender
- The minimum age for marriage has been raised from 17 to 18 (You will still need parental consent to marry should you be under the age of 20, which is what Thailand considers a "legal adult")
- Thai citizens can register their foreign marriages under Thai Law (I am very happy to see this being specified as I wasn't sure it would be-- big excitement for someone who has a 'foreign' partner)
- Joint Adoptions are allowed
- Spouses have the right to inherit after spousal death
- Spouses can be assigned as medical proxies to make any/all medical decisions for their spouse
- Spouses gain rights under social security law: including compensation and retirement benefits in case of spousal death
- Spouses are entitled to tax benefits, including personal income tax deductions
[SOURCE]
Looking to the future, there is currently a draft for the "Gender Identity Recognition Act" that, I desperately hope, is on its way to parliament 🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾