Chinese gay and transgender couples pose for pictures on a cruise ship at International Cruise Terminal Station in Shanghai, China June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Eight hundred people will watch on Wednesday as Aries Liu, a 32-year-old man who used to be a woman, marries his blushing bride on a cruise ship in waters near China's business capital of Shanghai.
The two are among nine gay and transgender couples planning to get hitched on the cruise heading to Japan in a week-long series of gay pride events in China, where same-sex marriage is illegal and homosexuality frowned upon.
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