Tag: Rodrigo Duterte
Philippine president comes out of the closet…as a cured gay?
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte just referred to himself as a “cured” gay.
Duterte made the statement during a joint summit in Tokyo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan. During a speech there, Duterte referred to his longtime political rival, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, as gay.
“You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they’ll say he’s gay,” Duterte said in his remarks. “Good thing Trillanes and I are similar. But I cured myself…When I began a relationship with Zimmerman,...
The Philippines’ president says he’s ex-gay: ‘I became a man again’
Rodrigo Duterte, the conservative president of the Philippines, said that he used to be gay but that he has since been “cured.”
During a speech yesterday, Duterte “confessed” that he was gay before he met his ex-wife, Elizabeth Zimmerman, local publication Rappler reports.
He then attacked Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, one of his main critics, accusing the senator of being gay. Duterte said that Trillanes’s “movements” showed that he was gay.
“You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they’ll say...
