#ThaixPRIDE2025

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Submissions for Thai X PRIDE are open until June 30th!

Please check our pinned post or the below links for event info, including how to participate!

Happy pride, everyone! 🎉

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To celebrate Pride 2025, Thai Fan Fests welcomes you to our next event: Thai X PRIDE! For this event, we encourage writers, artists, and fans to create fanworks of their favorite Thai media and fandom while learning about queer history in Thailand and how pride celebrations vary throughout the country! 

Schedule:

June 1st: Event launch. Schedule. guidelines, prompts go live.

June 2nd to June 22nd: Resources, educational content, and media on Pride celebrations in Thailand will be posted. Participants begin working on their fics/art/etc.

June 23rd to June 30th: Submissions period. Submissions will be shared by moderators across various platforms.

How to Participate:

Create fanworks centered around celebrating Pride in Thailand!

Tag it with #ThaiXPRIDE2025 or mention us, and we will reblog your work.

Learn about the significance of Thai queer history and culture.

Guidelines/FAQ:

We will accept all transformative works centered around pride celebrations (fanfic, art, video/photo edits, digital media, GIFsets, podfic, etc.)

All Thai fandoms are welcomed to participate.

Works can be on any platform (we are active on Tumblr, Twitter, and Ao3.)

NSFW and RPF works are accepted.

All prompts are optional.

Reblog! Tag a friend! Come celebrate Pride in Thailand with us! Hope to see you all there!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Thailand is known for its thriving and lively LGBT+ community, but did you know that their first Pride Parade took place on Halloween in 1999?

First known as “The Bangkok Gay Festival,” the event was the first of its kind in Thailand. The event, first dubbed a party, was organized by Pakorn Pimton, “who said that after seeing Pride parades on his overseas travels, he wanted Thailand to have one, too” (AP News). The event started as a party, being that there were very few ways to spread news about the event. The news article reports that Pimton mostly relied on posters in gay bars and word of mouth, being that sponsors rejected the event. 

Despite the obstacles and only obtaining a permit days before the event, the Bangkok Gay Festival was a success. Drag performers danced on floats, disco music blasted through the streets, and supporters cheered as the community came together. Several sources note that this first Thai LBGT+ event was unique from others due to the lack of political angle: “Pakorn Pimton called it a festival rather than a pride event because of the complete lack of a political angle” (Cambodia Daily).

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A post shared by Pakorn Pimton (@pakornpimton)

Still, the event drew thousands of attendees, including many people from overseas: Hong Kong, Singapore, etc., who could not safely celebrate in their communities. The event also mostly consisted of gay men, but the parade did have some lesbian attendees, who noted that Thai lesbians would have their own parade the following weekend. 

Richard Ammon writes, “The ultimate measure of success was not just the cheering and balloons and go-go dancers, but also the long-term impact it had with the media, the authorities and the public” (GlobalGayz).

And the long-term impact was made; the Festival continued to be held for several years. Years later, Ann Waaddao Chumaporn organized "Naruemit Pride 2022" which was held as the country's first official pride parade (BangkokPost). Since then, Waaddao has been an organizer of Bangkok Pride and activist of LGBT+ rights in Thailand, including the push towards marriage equality this past year. We highly recocmmend looking at Waadaao's photo-essays on Bangkok Pride 2022. Read through the above links to learn more about how Pride festivities started in Thailand, and how they’ve evolved since!

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Thai X PRIDE 2025 Fic to Podfic Interest Check!

Have you previously written about Pride for a Thai fandom? Would you be open to having your fic recorded as a podfic? Alternatively, are you a podficcer looking to record a fic for Thai X Pride? Or maybe you’d like to try your hand at podfic, but don’t know who to ask for permission?

If so, fill out this Google form with the link to your fic!

ThaiFanFests will then compile a list for podficcers who may want to record a fic for Thai X PRIDE 2025.

What is Podfic? "Podfic is an audio recording of fanfic, read aloud by a fan (or several)" (Fanlore). 

Disclaimer: Submitting your fic does not guarantee that your fic will become a podfic. This poll and list are to encourage podfic and accessibility in both the event and in Thai fandom spaces.

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Here are some brief explanations for some of our prompts for ThaiXPRIDE2025! (Some prompts, such as the Pride 2025 Themes, may have separate posts.)

Meet & Greet

Some organizations or corporations will have celebrities in attendance for meet and greets or fan events for Pride. For example:

Night Bazaars

Thai night bazaars or markets are usually open in the evening/after sunset and offer a great blend of street food, shopping, and local entertainment. Large night markets are found in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, but can certainly take place all across Thailand (AmazingThailand).

For Pride, night markets can offer unique artistic performances, talks, and fashion. Not to mention a very cute date idea! You can read more about the Chiang Mai Night Bazaar here.

Storytelling

Many of the Pride events across major Thai cities include panels in which queer Thais will share their experiences in the LGBT+ community. People share stories, educational information, resources, music and art, etc. The Siam Center has an array of talks and hosted events to spotlight diversity in Thailand's LGBT+ community.

Another great example is Phuket's recent "Pride Talk." The event focused on transgender rights and lack of gender affirming care, sexual education and its access in Thailand's schools, and social reform. (ThePhuketNews)

Waiting Rings & Getting Married during Pride Month

"In 2024, Bangkok Pride unveiled a powerful symbol that marked a cultural turning point in the fight for marriage equality in Thailand: the Waiting Ring. Introduced during the Bangkok Pride Festival 2024, the campaign transformed the act of waiting into activism, earning global attention for its bold, participatory design and clear message — love shouldn’t have to wait." (BrandinginAsia) (TheStandard)

Earlier this year, the first queer marriages took place in Thailand after the long wait for the Marriage Equality Act to pass and then become enshrined in law. Still, the rings hold significance for the long journey towards this historic moment in Thailand's queer history.

For our GIF makers, we compiled a short list of Thai queer shows that have a marriage/proposal scene.

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Meet Anjaree. First lesbian community in Thailand

Unofficial English subtitle on Nekocap

Anjaree (Thai: อัญจารี) an LGBT rights organization in Thailand. It formed as a lesbian organization in 1986 and has focused on issues such as reforming the words used to refer to same sex desire and campaigning for same sex marriage to be legally recognised. It became dormant around 2015 (Wikipedia)

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