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Hundreds wed as Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force

By AFP | Jan. 23, 2025

**A same-sex couple poses for pictures at a marriage registration event at Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok on January 23, 2025.** [AFP]

Scores of same-sex and transgender couples married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's equal marriage law went into effect, with two high-profile gay actors among the first to do so.

In matching beige suits, Apiwat "Porsch" Apiwatsayree, 49 -- who was in tears -- and Sappanyoo "Arm" Panatkool, 38, were handed their pink-bordered marriage certificates at a registry office in Bangkok.

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