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    Gay communist rebels marry in Phillippines

    Ross von Metze
    gMax.co.za (a South African gay news site)
    February 8, 2005


    MANILA, Philippines — Two communist rebels have become the first same-sex couple to marry under the New People’s Army, exchanging wedding vows on a rainy afternoon in the Philippine jungle and officiated by the Communist Party of the Philippines.

    Ka Andres and Ka Jose, who each use the mane “brother” before their names, married draped in a red flag with hammer and sickle in gold sequins. They exchanged vows under an archway of assault rifles and were serenaded with revolutionary love songs by a choir of New People's Army comrades.

    "What we have to do now, with the help of the party, is to work on our marriage and to be strong while serving the people," Jose said as reported by Reuters. At 21 years old, Jose is 33 years Andres’ junior.

    Homosexuality is largely shunned in the Philippines, where stereotypes of effeminate men are strongly reinforced in the media. The communist movement has been more progressive.

    In 1995, the CPP's Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee started to discuss gay rights in the movement. In 1998, a provision on gay relations and same-sex marriage was added to the CPP's guiding policy on relations contained in a document titled, "On the Proletarian Relationship of Sexes (OPRS)."

    Still, Jose and Andres said they ran into the "patriarchal" culture of the Philippines when they decided to marry.

    "We conducted painstaking discussions to make comrades understand gay relations and gay rights," Andres said

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    Maybe I'll forward this to the leaders of the Communist government where I live.

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    • #3
      Ben Kenobi will love this thread.
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      • #4
        it's all the leftie things bagged into one!
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Jaguar
          it's all the leftie things bagged into one!
          Almost! It wasn't an inter-racial marriage, apparently neither guy was disabled, and there was no mention of the environment.

          Still, not bad!
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          • #6
            They exchanged vows under an archway of assault rifles
            Too bad there aren't any pictures with the article.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jaguar
              it's all the leftie things bagged into one!
              The Phil press went nuts with this story. If only one of the gay commies had been a Muslim; that would have won the Philippine Fear-and-Loathing Trifecta!
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
                The communist movement has been more progressive


                It always is
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                • #9
                  It's not?


                  Nah, modern-day Poland's no different from other European countries - and in the past we've been better in this respect many times.
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                  • #10
                    This story'll make Fez so confused
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by mindseye
                      Almost! It wasn't an inter-racial marriage, apparently neither guy was disabled, and there was no mention of the environment.
                      And animal rights. Don't forget animal rights
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                      • #12
                        I hope people wouldn't start thining anything good about communist rebels there. Democracy is more important than homosexual marriages
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                        • #13
                          Communist gay rebel marriage

                          "Democracy is more important than homosexual marriages"
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Kamrat X

                            "Democracy is more important than homosexual marriages"
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                            • #15
                              Explain to me how we can have democracy if we don´t allow gay people to have the same rights as heterosexual people?

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