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EXCLUSIVE: Gay Marine says I do on base; a first
Photos: James Freeman (c) LGBT Weekly
EXCLUSIVE
Balloons, signs, tears, and joy may not be unusual sights on military bases when family and friends await their returning veterans safe return home from a long deployment, but a wedding proposal by a boyfriend to his Marine boyfriend is. Thats what happened Tuesday at Camp Pendleton, when San Diego resident, Cory Huston, himself a Navy veteran once assigned to the Marines as a hospital corpsman asked Marine Avarice Guerrero to marry him. It is believed to be the first proposal of marriage and engagement between two gay men not to mention two war vets on a US military base. In an exclusive, San Diego LGBT Weekly was there to photograph the historic proposal.
April 24, under a bright Southern California sky at Camp Pendletons Camp Del Mar near Oceanside, Calif., a full two hours before his boyfriends return from the badlands of Afghanistan, Cory Huston waited nervously. Huston, who was discharged under the former Dont Ask Dont Tell policy, chain smoked as he rehearsed the simple proposal he would deliver when Guerrero would arrive.
He told LGBT Weekly that by popping the question, and assuming Guerrero would say yes, he would not only be changing his and his beaus lives forever, but also the landscape of marriage among gay servicemembers.
This is a huge step for me, Huston said while pacing and scanning the crowd of fellow friends and family members of returning Marines.
http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/04/26/gay-marine-says-i-do-on-base-a-first/
xchrom
(108,903 posts)What is the world coming to?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)...mixed marriage!
Cirque du So-What
(25,938 posts)a precedent that will - I hope - lend acceptability and legitimacy to the concept of same-sex marriage in less-enlightened corners of the nation.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)and begrudge them a life together?