Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage, with hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples registering their marriages under the new Marriage Equality Act.
Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand are expected to make their wedded status legal Thursday, the day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples. The enactment of the Marriage Equality Act makes Thailand the first country in Southeast Asia and the third place in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal. FRANCE 24's Matt Hunt reports from Bangkok.
Thailand's same-sex marriage law took effect Thursday, making it the largest Asian nation to recognise equal marriage rights, including for transgender individuals, and to extend adoption and inheritance rights to all married couples. Almost 2,000 same-sex and transgender couples married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's equal marriage law went into effect in a first for Southeast Asia.The milestone sees Thailand become by far the biggest nation in Asia to recognise equal marriage, after
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Hundreds of same-sex couples celebrated love and equality in Thailand as the country became the largest in Asia and the first in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, Sky News reports. A mass LGBTQ wedding at a Bangkok shopping mall saw hundreds of couples register their marriages, marking the law's historic implementation.
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