Gay couple married in US feted at Malaysia banquet

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Associated Press

Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:00 AM

Updated Monday, Aug 6 at 1:02 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A gay pastor who married his musical producer boyfriend in New York last year has fulfilled a vow to hold a wedding banquet in his native Malaysia. The couple believes that Saturday's reception was the first such event in the Muslim-majority country.

Malaysian-born Ngeo Boon Lin and African-American husband Phineas Newborn III quietly held the reception at a Chinese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur with about 200 guests, including a handful of journalists who were asked to hold their reports until afterward.

The couple risked the ire of a government that has declared that homosexuality has no place in Malaysian society.

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