NGAYONG araw ang kasal ng self-confessed lesbian na si Monique Wilson sa kanyang girlfriend na si Rossana Abueva. Magaganap ito sa Notting Hill, West London kung saan legal ang same sex marriage.
Matagal nang magkarelasyon sina Monique at Rossana, pero ngayon lang sila nagdesisyon na magpakasal. Naka-post sa kanilang Facebook account ang kanilang wedding invitation na talagang nakakuha ng atensiyon ng maraming netizens.
“After seventeen years together, come celebrate our seven year civil partnership into a more revolutionary commitment: marriage (in the eyes of the law), but really — the reaffirming of our radical union with those who have lived and laughed, cried and celebrated, rallied and protested, created and adventured with us these last seventeen years.
Ignite and plant more fires with us!” Kung matatandaan, naging malaking issue noon ang pagkuwestiyon sa gender ni Monique, lalo na noong makasama siya sa “Miss Saigon” sa London, siya ang naging ka-alternate ni Lea Salonga bilang Kim noong 1989.
Noong 2012 lang umamin ang 45-year-old singer-actress-activist na siya’y tomboy. Sa ngayon, aktibo si Monique sa kanilang global movement na One Billion Rising na tumutulong sa mga kababaihan na naging biktima ng rape at iba pang sexual violence.
Sey pa ni Monique sa relasyon nila ng mapapangasawa, “She has been the wind and river of love that have been the motor, the fuel, the core of everything that I do.
She has not only helped spread my feminist wings both artistically and politically, and to fly as high as those wings can take me – but also rides every challenge with me with a love that truly has no boundaries – and with a generosity of heart that has allowed me to keep opening my heart to keep loving others.
“I am so deeply and profoundly blessed to share and touch both the skies of revolution and art with her.”