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mindseye
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A Yankee living in Shanghai
Apr 1999
time: 13:24
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quote:
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 Peoples 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.
Happy Valentines Day!  
Oh ... and Viva la Revolution!    
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14-02-2005 10:13
Ben Kenobi will love this thread.
) What the ****īs the connection between totalitarian regimes and homosexuality? AFAIK homosexuality is banned in most (if not all) totalitarian states... And donīt say that you are in favor of gays when you donīt want them around. Itīs just the old bigot/racist/whatever response. "Iīm not a racist, but..."
I confused the NPA with the other guerilla group (in Mindanao) supported by my political tendency. The NPA and CPP is a truly evil force carrying out murders on political adversarys.
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