Participants hold posters celebrating equality in marriage during the Pride Parade in Bangkok on June 1, 2024. - AP
BANGKOK: Thailand on Tuesday (June 18) became the first country in South-East Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, in a historic parliamentary vote hailed as a "victory" by campaigners.
The senate upper house gave final approval -- by 130 votes to four, with 18 abstentions -- to changes to the marriage law allowing same-sex couples to tie the knot.
