Anjaree was formed originally in 1986 by a small group of lesbian feminist activists, which included Anjana Suvarnananda and Chanthalak Raksayu.
[1] The organization articulated lesbian issues in the women's movement in Thailand and the society at large.
[3] Anjaree has long campaigned for recognition of same sex marriage in Thailand [4] as in other Asian countries such as Taiwan.
Anjana Suvarnananda commented to the Thomson Reuters Foundation that if it the challenge failed, there was a "risk that the outdated notion of marriage will persist for a while".
Thai psychologists had put people into groups named "rak-tang-pet" (heterosexual) and "rak-ruam-pet" (homosexual).