{"id":2385,"date":"2015-05-20T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:30:04","slug":"thailand-happiest-country-to-be-gay-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2385-thailand-happiest-country-to-be-gay-in-asia","title":{"rendered":"Thailand is the happiest country to be gay in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetromeo.com\/lgbt\/gay-happiness-index\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8220;Gay Happiness Index&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> (GHI), <strong>Thailand is the Asian country where gays can live the happiest<\/strong>. The country comes 16th worldwide. A good ranking that is not really a surprise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6224\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6224 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gay-thailand.jpg\" alt=\"Yes or No\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thai audience loved the girls couple from the movie &#8220;Yes or No&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is true that in Thai society, homosexuality is very well accepted today even if\u00a0gay marriage is still not possible. The success of the comedy <strong><em>&#8220;Yes or no&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> which even had a suite (you can watch both\u00a0movies in our <em><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/videos-thailand\/subtitled-thai-movies-5\" target=\"_blank\">Thai movies with\u00a0subtitles<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em> section) and tells\u00a0the love story between two girls also proves that\u00a0Thailand is very open minded on\u00a0homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/thailand-gay-happiness.jpg\" alt=\"Index du Bonheur gay dans le monde\" width=\"640\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>PlanetRomeo<\/em>, a dating service has established this gay happiness index. 115,000 people participated in the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Results\u00a0show that it is in Europe that gays declare to be the happiest and particularly in Northern Europe. Australia is number 20 in the list, United Kingdom comes 23, United States 26,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gay-happiness_index-600x362.jpg\" alt=\"Gay happiness index\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Thailand, the survey\u00a0had 1,549 \u00a0participants. <strong>Thailand is the only country in Asia to be ranked in the top 20<\/strong>, followed by Taiwan (34th) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambodee.com\/en\/index.php\">Cambodia<\/a> (35th).<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, participants were asked if they felt discriminated and 76% of gay men in Thailand said they don&#8217;t suffer from discrimination at work or in school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the &#8220;Gay Happiness Index&#8221; (GHI), Thailand is the Asian country where gays can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}