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Philippines President Duterte has apparently come out as ex-gay during speech; kisses women on stage to prove hes cured
The controversial resident of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, accused a rival politician of being gay during a speech in Japan on Thursday, and confessed that hed also been gay, but he had cured himself after he began a relationship with his first wife.
Duterte concluded the speech inviting four women to kiss him.
According to CNN Philippines, the women whom he called on stage to share a kiss had very similar features: long silky hair, slender bodies, and pale skin. And they also had to meet a few requirements: First, you shouldnt be married, OK? Second, youre not a minor, he said before starting the mini kiss-a-thon.
Those four. Come here. Let them in, come on, let them in, said the president.
His spokesperson, Salvador Panelo, filmed the public display of awkwardness on his cell phone, while Senator-elect Bong Go, a staunch supporter of the president, watched the scene with a less-than-amused look.
During the speech, Duterte had poked fun at his political rival Antonio Trillanes IV, a retired Navy officer who currently serves as a senator, whos a married father of two children.
Looks like he's taking a page from the Donald Trump rules of campaigning for dummies
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-gay-20190601-z6kfukyfj5gc7gplfyxxmao6ga-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3Fy08nc-scKVKE_2lnELS9eVbfpBGLBFbmQ2SGz69ptFZpnqE_MWndkj4
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,448 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)That almost beats Lieutenant Colonel Randy Cabangbang. Pinoy names can be interesting.
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)Thatll definitely take care of a Randy Cabangbang.
I used to get into trouble for posting news updates about the conflict with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. For as bad a situation as it was, some of the MILF headlines were irresistible.
https://philippineslifestyle.com/milf-serious-terror-group/
MILF: The deadly serious terror group with the somewhat silly name
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,102 posts)hunter
(38,328 posts)Later, so was my grandfather.
They knew who was gay.
It's horrible from a modern perspective, but Hollywood protected (and abused as well...) its gay "assets."
A similar thing happened in World War II. The story of Alan Turing is not unique. During World War II my grandfather was a handsome Army Air Corp officer who sometimes carried the "get out of jail free" cards for brilliant people deemed essential to the war effort, often people who had been picked up by the police for homosexual behavior. (When the war ended and the Air Force became an independent branch of the military it purged itself of anyone it considered "deviant" in the slightest manner, creating the toxic Air Force culture that exists to this day.)
Rather than Rock Hudson, Duterte is more comparable to the deeply closeted politicians, preachers, and law enforcement officers who achieve positions of power and inflict their own inner bitterness, frustrations, conflicts, and hypocrisy on the rest of the world.
Rock Hudson kissed a few women to demonstrate his manliness, but he wasn't going around shooting drug dealers, torturing his enemies, and generally behaving like a gangster to prove to himself and the world he was "cured."
Ms. Toad
(34,102 posts)proves you are not gay. (That was the point of the thread - not all the other flaws he has.)
hunter
(38,328 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)Maybe not in the same way exactly. I could be wrong.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)that.". I swear we're living in some kind of global zombie pandemic.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Great...sigh.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)The biggest homophobes tend to be self-loathing closet dwellers.