Seven Chinese same-sex couples got married on Tuesday at a city library in West Hollywood, California. The wedding trip was sponsored by Alibaba, China's online retail giant.
"I've been having a lot of dreams about the wedding these days; each time I woke up crying," Hu Zhidong, one-half of a couple from Beijing, told BuzzFeed News. He and his new husband, Liu Xing, have been together for eight years.
Same-sex marriage is still unrecognized in China. The country removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in 2001.
But least two members of China's state-run media, Reference News and Beijing's Mirror Evening News, posted about the wedding on Weibo. "Love and to be loved are basic rights of everybody, [we] hope [society] could be more tolerant," the latter wrote.
The wedding ceremony was officiated by Mayor Lindsey Horvath.
VIDEO from today's special group wedding of 7 same-sex couples from China: http://t.co/zSJkCHu84r #weho #westhollywood