{"id":69078,"date":"2025-01-23T21:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jan\/23\/joy-in-thailand-as-same-sex-couples-can-finally-get-married-video"},"modified":"2025-01-23T21:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:50:01","slug":"joy-in-thailand-as-same-sex-couples-can-finally-marry-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69078","title":{"rendered":"Joy in Thailand as same-sex couples can finally marry \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s LGBTQ+ community has fought for decades for the right to equal marriage, and on Thursday 878 district offices across the country opened their doors to same-sex couples who wished to register and get married. It has made Thailand the first country in south-east Asia to recognise equal marriage, and only the third in Asia, behind Taiwan and Nepal<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/23\/thailand-same-sex-gay-marriage-equality-laws\">\u2018I am so proud\u2019: Joy as Thailand\u2019s same-sex couples can at last get married<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2025\/jan\/23\/thai-same-sex-marriage-law-comes-into-force-in-pictures\">Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/jan\/23\/joy-in-thailand-as-same-sex-couples-can-finally-get-married-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand\u2019s LGBTQ+ community has fought for decades for the right to equal marriage, and on Thursday 878 district offices across the country opened their doors to same-sex couples who wished to register and get married. It has made Thailand the first co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,73,2729,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-equal-marriage","category-lgbtq-rights","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69079,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69078\/revisions\/69079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}