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Sat 02 Feb 2010First gay wedding in Kenya called off after protests
WHAT WAS supposed to be Kenya’s first gay wedding was cancelled yesterday, after a wave of protests from the country’s religious community.
The ceremony, which was supposed to take place in the popular seaside town of Mtwapa, faced an angry backlash from the town’s Muslim and Christian community, who took to the streets on the same day under an operation dubbed “Operation Gays Out”.
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