内容摘要：“It will be very important,” Alonso told reporters on Thursday ahead of the

“It will be very important,” Alonso told reporters on Thursday ahead of the

Caiga, who came to Thailand from the Philippines 17 years ago, said he’s feeling more secure and confident knowing that he’ll be able to live in his adopted home permanently, and to adopt a child or buy a home with his partner.Displaying a tattoo that reads “Freed” across his right arm, Caiga says it is meant to express being freed from the negative perceptions of other people, whether it is about race, culture and diversity.

Edward Jonathan Caiga, 42, displays a tattoo on his arm in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, July 14, 2024, (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)Edward Jonathan Caiga, 42, displays a tattoo on his arm in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, July 14, 2024, (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)“This law will help enforce further the fundamental necessities, which is fair to have for everyone who wants to spend the rest of their lives with the people they love,” he said.

Kunchanok, 27, and Caiga, 42, say they plan to get married once the law goes into effect.and inclusivity, but has struggled for decades to pass a marriage equality law. Thai society has broadly conservative values, and members of the LGBTQ+ community say they face discrimination in everyday life.

The government led by the Pheu Thai party has made marriage equality one of its main goals. It had a major presence at the

in June, in which thousands of people celebrated in one of Bangkok’s busiest commercial districts.Shirin kept thinking of Kian throughout the decade-long separation. Even though Shirin kept in touch with her female friends from her high school days, she always had a sense of unfulfillment, a sense of pessimism and skepticism. Her parents had separated when she was in college.

“Shirin thinks there is an ugliness inside her sometimes, some kind of repressed anger that she takes out on other people in her mind,” the author writes.But her thoughts of Kian, and her desire for them to be together again one day, give her a sense of hope and relief.

When the two reunite again in London at their friend Millie’s 27th birthday party, Shirin’s love for her old friend resurfaces. But it comes a little too late: Salma, who Kian was now seeing, is also at the party. Shirin even asks Kian to kiss her, but he doesn’t because she’s drunk.These would-be lovers have one final meeting — at a dinner party in New York in 2020, where Kian is now living. She confesses to having a lot of regrets and that she had been thinking about him during their decade-long separation. Kian confesses he had imagined her kissing him while they were in school.