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Mar 06, 2007
Quickie Link: Phillipines: Gay Candidate Seeks Votes With Equality Ticket
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By vanrozenheim
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(Manila, Phillipines) - The first openly gay candidate for the Philippines Senate is centring his campaign on equal opportunities and wooing not just sexual minorities but the young, the old, the disadvantaged, women, and overseas voters whose issues receive little real attention in the political race. Danton Remoto, a published author and respected academic, is running as an independent for one of the 12 out of 24 seats in the Senate on 14 May, when Filipinos will also elect 250 members of the lower chamber as well as many regional governors and mayors. In an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI) Remoto explained his strategy.
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