Football in hijab: Thai Muslim lesbians tackle stereotypes

Players at a regional futsal tournament for lesbian, bisexual and queer girls and women in Pattani, a Muslim-majority province in southern Thailand. October 18, 2020. (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Chandran)

Anticha Sangchai did not come out to her family until she was 30 and married with a child. It was her own struggle confronting the conservative community in southern Thailand that led her to create a place where women like her…