Kwanporn Kongpetch (left) and Ploynaplus Chirasukon from the LGBTQ community showing their marriage certificates after the Marriage Equality Act took effect in Bangkok, on Jan 23, 2025. - AP
BANGKOK: A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on Thursday (Jan 23) as the kingdom's same-sex marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so.
Thai actors Apiwat "Porsch" Apiwatsayree, 49 -- who was in tears -- and Sappanyoo "Arm" Panatkool, 38, in matching beige suits, were handed their pink-bordered marriage certificates at a registry office in Bangkok.
