Let’s take a look at some of the most popular gay films from Thailand, which made it big at the tills and were highly favored by the viewing public.ġ0. A 2013 USAID report (“Being LGBT in Asia”�) also mentions that Thailand’s Tourism Authority is actively promoting the country as a gay paradise.Īll this goes to show that the modern Thai society is steadily embracing the LGBT community. With some areas of exception (same-sex marriage, for example, is still not permitted), being gay is reasonably accepted in the country. A number of factors could be attributed to this growth, one being that, unlike several other countries in the Southeast Asia region, there are no laws here prohibiting homosexuality. These past few years have seen a distinct rise in gay/LGBT genre movies in Thailand.
