Thailand same-sex marriage law takes effect: "Every love is the same"

Hundreds of LGBTQ couples in Thailand got married Thursday as the country's landmark marriage equality law came into effect. Thailand is the first country or region in South East Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and the third in Asia after Taiwan and Nepal.

Over 100 couples were married Thursday in a mass ceremony at a mall in central Bangkok.

"We're so happy that Thai people here — now they can express their love in public and they can be accepted worldwide," Ruchaya Nillikan, 45, who was married at the ceremony, told CBS News' partner network BBC News. "That means the world to us… We had to fight a lot to have today."