It means LGBT couples now have the same rights as any other couple - the culmination of a decades-long campaign.

Hundreds of LGBT couples in Thailand are expected to make their wedded status legal on Thursday, the first day a law took effect granting them the

Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to allow legal same-sex weddings on Thursday, with LGBT groups aiming to register over 1,000 marriages in a single day. A new marriage equality law went into force on Thursday,

Thailand has become the first nation in Southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex weddings, with LGBT groups aiming to mark the occasion with more than 1000 marriage registrations in a single day.

Hundreds of same-sex couples are expected to tie the knot across Thailand on Thursday as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.

Same-sex marriage now legal in southeast Asian country already established as gay-friendly tourist destination

It is a big day many in Thailand's LGBTQ+ community have long been waiting for, as couples celebrate a law giving them the same legal rights as married heterosexuals.

Across the country, at least 1,448 same-sex couples are expected to be wed by the end of today, LGBTQ activists say, as a tribute to the Change 1448 campaign for marriage equality - 1448 is the clause in the Thai Civil Code covering the definition of marriage.

Thailand reached a major milestone on Thursday in becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to hold legal same-sex unions, with LGBT groups aiming to mark the occasion with more than a thousand weddings in a single day.

When Thailand's long-awaited equal marriage law came into effect on Thursday, police officer Pisit "Kew" Sirihirunchai hoped to be among the first in line to marry his long-term partner Chanatip "Jane" Sirihirunchai.

Hundreds of people began registering their marriages at a mall in Bangkok, as Thailand became one of the few places in Asia to legalize same-sex unions.