>President Rodrigo Duterte implied during a speech on Thursday, May 30, in Japan, that being gay is a disease that needs curing.
>It began with Duterte poking fun at his archcritic Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. He said someone gay had told him that based on the senator's movements, Trillanes is gay. Earlier in his speech, Duterte had "confessed" that he too used to be gay.
>I said, "Are you sure?" They said, "You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they'll say he's gay." No wonder. Good thing Trillanes and I are similar. But I cured myself. >Duterte continued: "Noong kami na ni Zimmerman, sabi ko, ito na. Naging lalaki ako ulit. (When I began a relationship with Zimmerman, I said, this is it. I became a man again)." >The President wrapped up his remarks on gays by saying he has no problem if he is a homosexual. >"Bakla nga si Duterte. Eh 'di bakla, wala akong ano diyan kung bakla ako o hindi (Duterte is gay. So I am gay, I don't care if I'm gay or not)," he said.
