‘First’ public gay wedding ceremony in Myanmar

Lavish ceremony: Tin (right) and Myo arriving for their wedding reception in Yangon. - AFP

YANGON: Dressed in matching traditional Myanmar clothes and garlanded with jasmine, a gay couple married in a lavish public ceremony that they say was the first of its kind in the conservative nation.

Tin Ko Ko and Myo Min Htet exchanged rings in an upmarket Yangon hotel on Sunday, in the latest sign of changing social mores in the South-East Asian nation as it emerges from the shadow of military dictatorship.