'Foreigners are fond of pets'
April 20, 2015
Photos of a Thai man holding hands with his foreign boyfriend have gone viral.
Naparuj Kaendi and Thorsten Mid were snapped on the Bangkok Sky Train during the Songkran festival, which brings thousands of gay men from around region to the city.
The photos were met with a torrent of abuse after they were uploaded on the Facebook page of Philippine news BV Patrol on Saturday (18 April) morning.
At the time of writing, the post had nearly 17,000 likes and more than 12,000 shares.
'Foreigners are fond of pets,' wrote one commenter.
'I now believe that potions work,' another said, commenting on the perceived disparity their looks. Yet another told Mid to 'wake up, boy.'
Some even predicted that Kaendi would meet the same fate as Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transgender woman who was allegedly killed by a US marine.
But others have to come to the couple's defense.
'Everyone deserves to love and to be loved! Lets just all be happy to the both of them,' wrote one commenter. 'Love in different view, equality lives on.'
'They deserve to be respected,' said another.
Kaendi is the creative director of a Thai modeling agency and his boyfriend of two years is a model.
Kaendi took to Instagram to say thank for 'the support and all the positivity.'
'To be honest I wasn’t so surprised when random people walked to us last night and showed us all these candid pictures of us that have been posted the whole evening,' he wrote.
'It happened before, same time last year and all the nasty comments left me nothing but worries and tears.
'This year though, in the other hand, Thorsten and I, unexpectedly, are so thankful and overwhelmed by the storm of your huge support.
'We never meant to try to be under the spotlight and all… But thank y’all anyway.'
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