Report Bangkok Prepares for 2025 Pride Festival Celebrating "Right to Love"

[snoop1130]

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As Bangkok gears up for the 2025 Pride Festival, agencies are rallying support under the theme "The Celebration: Right to Love," with a series of events from 30 May to 30 June. The highlight will be the much-anticipated Pride Parade on 1 June.

 

A press conference on 6 May, featuring co-organisers including the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, and the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), shed light on the upcoming festivities.

 

Pimjai Leeissaranukul, FTI vice president and Creative Industry and Soft Power Institute (Cispi) president, revealed the inspiration behind the "Paint the City with My Pride" campaign. Sparked by this year's Marriage Equality Bill passage, the initiative by Cispi and the Creative Economy Agency seeks to highlight gender inclusivity while boosting the economy, despite no specific financial figures being available.

 

The campaign features collaborations with leading Thai character designers. These artists will infuse works with traditional and pop culture elements, showcasing societal diversity. The resulting illustrations will adorn various products and items.

 

According to TAT Governor Thapanee Kiatphaibool, Thailand is positioning itself as the ultimate LGBTQ+ tourism destination. The concurrent "Amazing Thailand Love Wins Festival" will expand Pride celebrations to key tourist spots, including Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Bangkok, Phuket, and Pattaya, with events spanning ten additional provinces.

 

"We must ensure Thailand is an ideal LGBTQ+ destination beyond just Pride Month," Thapanee emphasised.

 

Surapong Suebwonglee, Deputy Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, stressed that the government supports diversity and equality through soft power strategies and fostering a creative culture. He highlighted diversity as a crucial economic driver, especially during times when new growth engines are essential.

 

This vibrant campaign and series of events promise to raise awareness and bolster economic activity, reaffirming Thailand's commitment to equality and inclusion.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Bangkok Post 2025-05-13

 

 

[Gottfrid]

All of you always had the right to love. Don´t make it bigger than it is.

[bendejo]

9 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The campaign features collaborations with leading Thai character designers. These artists will infuse works with traditional and pop culture elements, showcasing societal diversity. The resulting illustrations will adorn various products and items.

 

Does this mean there will be white guys doing the bare buns and chaps thing with their big white asses exposed for all to see?  Someone I know says their butts look like 2 pigs in a pillow case fighting to get out.

That would qualify as a show of diversity in a country of (predominantly) skinny-assed people. 

 

[User One]

They literally spoil pure love with this same-sex madness 👎🏳️‍🌈

[Jingthing]

7 minutes ago, User One said:

They literally spoil pure love with this same-sex madness 👎🏳️‍🌈

How do "they" do that exactly?

[Yagoda]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

How do "they" do that exactly?

By dancing around and exposing everyone to their mental illnesses, fetishes and perversions like its something normal

[Jingthing]

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

By dancing around and exposing everyone to their mental illnesses, fetishes and perversions like its something normal

Haters gonna hate.

[Jingthing]

On 5/12/2025 at 11:09 PM, Gottfrid said:

All of you always had the right to love. Don´t make it bigger than it is.

Your comment makes sense to those who are terminally literal.

The implied meaning obviously is that Thailand has joined the civilized world in formal legal recognition of same sex relationships which indeed is very big civil rights thing to those that change impacts.

[Yagoda]

12 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Haters gonna hate.

Pity is a better word.

[redwood1]

Whats needed is to go to Bangkok with a giant water hose, and wash the rainbow gay away....

[Jingthing]

Just now, redwood1 said:

Whats needed is to go to Bangkok with a giant water hose, and wash the rainbow gay away....

Yes lets erase people that are different from you.

That's the ticket.

[SAFETY FIRST]

They have a Pattaya pride march, all the queers parading, I got caught in the traffic jam. 

 

I saw some very, very strange people in amongst a few normal looking people.

 

[cdemundo]

I've been watching a lot of lesbian sex videos to try and understand them.

I think I've made a lot of progress but probably I will need to watch a lot more to really get a significant understanding.

 

 

[BLMFem]

52 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

By dancing around and exposing everyone to their mental illnesses, fetishes and perversions like its something normal

....he typed sitting in Gary's old hovel in Phnom Penh.

[Baht Simpson]

1 hour ago, BLMFem said:

....he typed sitting in Gary's old hovel in Phnom Penh.

Yeah, foreigner in Cambodia moaning about something in another country that won't affect him.

 

The great joy of Pride is listening to miserable old farangs here moaning about how it's upsetting them. Always amusing.

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, Baht Simpson said:

Yeah, foreigner in Cambodia moaning about something in another country that won't affect him.

 

The great joy of Pride is listening to miserable old farangs here moaning about how it's upsetting them. Always amusing.

It's very weird, isn't it?

There are lots of parades and festivals I don't attend because I'm just not interested.

That's all. Isn't that enough?

I generally don't go to the gay ones either.

Seen one, seen them all, as Reagan said about redwood trees (ha ha).

[Patong2021]

Ahh yes, the  flabby jealous miserable brigade came out to complain. Admit it. You envy those buff  toned young men who do not need a bra like some of you. You haven't been able to see your  feet in 20 years and you can't have sex unless you pay for it and take a super 100 mg dose of  ED suppressant. Maybe lay off the fried food, cheap beer, stop smoking and do some exercise.

 

On 5/12/2025 at 12:09 PM, Gottfrid said:

All of you always had the right to love. Don´t make it bigger than it is.

Not always. The Europeans pushed their repressive religions and  mores on others insisting that only certain  love and  within specific  parameters was allowed.

 

2 hours ago, User One said:

They literally spoil pure love with this same-sex madness 👎🏳️‍🌈

 

You obviously do not understand the concept of love.

 

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

By dancing around and exposing everyone to their mental illnesses, fetishes and perversions like its something normal

 

You  do not need to attend their event. And as far labeling anyone mentally ill, you obviously have no self awareness , nor understand how you are  seen. And considering your dependency on cannabis, you really should work on your own life first.

 

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

Whats needed is to go to Bangkok with a giant water hose, and wash the rainbow gay away....

 

 Practice first on you. Try washing some of your ignorance away.

[Yagoda]

11 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

Yeah, foreigner in Cambodia moaning about something in another country that won't affect him.

 

The great joy of Pride is listening to miserable old farangs here moaning about how it's upsetting them. Always amusing.

I wouldnt even know the silliness existed but for it being shoved in folks faces, here. Otherwise, the quality of my morning poop is more important. 

 

 

[Yagoda]

10 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

You obviously do not understand the concept of love.

 

I think one can draw the line between love and shoving ones tongue up some fat hairy guys bunghole while wearing leather and making your partner call you Mommy

 

10 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

You  do not need to attend their event.

I wont LOL

 

10 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

And as far labeling anyone mentally ill, you obviously have no self awareness , nor understand how you are  seen.

Seen by who? Losers on the internet? 

 

10 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

And considering your dependency on cannabis, you really should work on your own life first.

I think that if a normal regular family was presented with a choice of having their kid smoke weed or having him dye his hair purple and play puppy in a bath house they would spark up a doobie

[josephbloggs]

4 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I think one can draw the line between love and shoving ones tongue up some fat hairy guys bunghole while wearing leather and making your partner call you Mommy

 

You have some odd fantasies.

[Yagoda]

On 5/13/2025 at 2:31 AM, bendejo said:

 

Does this mean there will be white guys doing the bare buns and chaps thing with their big white asses exposed for all to see?  Someone I know says their butts look like 2 pigs in a pillow case fighting to get out.

That would qualify as a show of diversity in a country of (predominantly) skinny-assed people. 

 

I wonder if they will chant "We're here, we're queer, and we're coming for your children".

[Yagoda]

9 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

You have some odd fantasies.

Google is your friend. If you can think of it, some disturbed fetishists are doing it.

[thesetat]

13 hours ago, Jingthing said:

The implied meaning obviously is that Thailand has joined the civilized world in formal legal recognition of same sex relationships which indeed is very big civil rights thing to those that change impacts.

You are quite wrong. You meant to say that governments initially thought they could push this agenda onto the normal society until they got out of hand and the people pushed back causing the governments to backtrack and make things the way they were before. 

 

China, Russia, USA, and many other civilised countries refuse to embellish the woke cause. Some even make it illegal. Thailand uses this event to attract these people to come for tourism. Does not make it a good thing. Indeed, I would never allow my children to attend one of these events for these people. As I would also advise anyone going there to make sure you do not bring valuables since many Thai woke are also looking to not only lift you from your burden of a same-sex relationship, but also lift anything else they can get from your belongings that has any value. 

[cdemundo]

41 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I think one can draw the line between love and shoving ones tongue up some fat hairy guys bunghole while wearing leather and making your partner call you Mommy

 

I wont LOL

 

Seen by who? Losers on the internet? 

 

I think that if a normal regular family was presented with a choice of having their kid smoke weed or having him dye his hair purple and play puppy in a bath house they would spark up a doobie

"I think one can draw the line between love and shoving ones tongue up some fat hairy guys bunghole while wearing leather and making your partner call you Mommy"

 

 

In spite of what you say you either know a lot about gay sex or have some pretty elaborate fantasies about it.

 

[Yagoda]

7 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

In spite of what you say you either know a lot about gay sex or have some pretty elaborate fantasies about it.

 

Im a 70 year old dude originally from NYC and if that was my fantasy, Id be "man" enough to proudly advertise it for all of your enjoyment.

 

I guess you never read Kraft Ebbing or took forensic psychology or worked in the field of criminal justice? Wanna talk about the one that "loved" his boyfriend so much he cut off his johnson and fried it up? 

 

You Socialists love to use homosexuality as an insult.

[cdemundo]

Of course,

you are ungay...

but do you find yourself inexplicably drawn to comment on discussions of gay events?

Maybe even comment multiple times?

 

But as you say, you are ungay.

 

[JonnyF]

12 hours ago, Baht Simpson said:

The great joy of Pride is listening to miserable old farangs here moaning about how it's upsetting them. Always amusing.

 

There's a lot of truth in that.

 

The LGBTQ+++++++ crowd love to shock, offend, annoy. These Pride marches are really just a big middle finger to normal people who accepted their homosexuality a long time ago. That's why they prance around half naked, flaunting their often unattractive physiques, hamming up the campness and generally making themselves look/sound as obnoxious as possible. 

 

They're not Proud, they're anti-social exhibitionists.

[cdemundo]

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Google is your friend. If you can think of it, some disturbed fetishists are doing it.

And you are Googling it?

Perhaps you reveal more than you intend grasshopper.

[Yagoda]

4 minutes ago, cdemundo said:

And you are Googling it?

Perhaps you reveal more than you intend grasshopper.

So whats your point bro? Suppose I was googling all sorts of sick homosexual fantasies, what does that show to you? Would it be like looking at a Gore website? Or watch cop shooting videos? Or read My Secret Life or Kraft_Ebbing or The Arabian Nights? Could it be intellectual interest? Employment necessity? What if I realized I was sick and wacking off to Goat Boy in Pattaya Videos, then fleeing to a Priest to Confess? Or maybe I learned it all years ago and was cured?

 

So whats your snide little point?

 

BTW, ever seen Crime Scene Photos? Read a criminal autopsy report? Or a confession?

[brewsterbudgen]

Hopefully the rain holds off and it's a fun, happy day, full of love, for all involved.