A judge in China has ruled a gay couple can't enlist as wedded, in the nation's first instance of its kind.

Sun Wenlin and Hu Mingliang documented a claim against Changsha city powers after their application to enlist a union was rejected.

In January an area court consented to hear the case, a first in China.

China does not lawfully perceive same-sex marriage, but rather there is developing consciousness of lesbian, gay, cross-sexual and transgender issues.

On Wednesday, there were cheers for Mr Sun, 27, and Mr Hu, 37, when they entered the court, from many supporters who had accumulated outside. Powers permitted around 100 of them inside.The couple's legal advisor, Shi Funong, said he had anticipated that the judgment would conflict with them, yet not all that rapidly.

"It conflicts with the soul of the laws of the People's Republic of China," he said.

Mr Sun said he would offer against Wednesday's court choice.

The two men had attempted to enroll their union in June a year ago and documented the claim in December.

Mr Sun said police had gone by him after he recorded the case to attempt to influence him to drop it, yet he won't.

"The first content of the Marriage Law does not say one man and one lady, but rather a spouse and a wife. I for one trust that this term alludes to hetero couples as well as to same-sex couples," he said in a meeting with state media in January.