Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand began making their wedded status legal Thursday, the first day a law took effect granting them the same rights as heterosexual couples.

More than a thousand LGBTQ couples across the country will marry as same-sex unions become legal in the country One of Thursday's biggest events is happening at a luxury mall in central Bangkok, where more than 100 couples will marry The first few couples have got their marriage certificates - a piece of paper that the Thai LGBTQ community says they have had to fight long and hard for.

Hundreds of same-sex couples tied the knot across Thailand on Thursday, as the country becomes the first in Southeast Asia to legally recognize equal marriage.

And he was - they were the sixth couple to register their union at one of Bangkok's grandest shopping malls, in an event city officials helped organise to celebrate this legal milestone. Hundreds of couples across Thailand received marriage certificates on Thursday,