Li Huanwu is the nephew of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and grandson of the country’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan. This week, he married his partner, Heng Yirui, in a private ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa.
The guys made the big announcement on their social media pages.
Yirui, who works as a veterinarian, posted a photo himself and Huanwu wearing matching khaki pants and white button downs with an elephant standing in the background, along with the caption: “Today I marry my soul mate. Looking forward to a lifetime of moments like this with @hero.unit.”
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Meanwhile, Huanwu took to Facebook to share the exciting news, posting several pictures of the couple enjoying their time together at Mana Pools National Park.
In a Facebook post, Yirui wrote: “Today I marry my soul mate,” Yirui wrote. “The journey has been a great one with the love and support of friends and family.”
“Here’s to a lifetime of loving companionship and good cheer!”
Congratulations to the happy couple!
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Kangol2
Cute couple! Congrats to both of them.
Juanjo
Mazel Tov
Billysees
An appropriate response …
Dan Renzi
This is significant not just because it is a cute wedding with an elephant. Singapore has historically had one of the most oppressive regimes in southeast Asia, where public beatings (caning) have been assigned by criminal courts as punishments, chewing gum requires a prescription from a physician, and cigarettes can’t be brought into the country. Same-sex relations of any kind (between men) are illegal, and carry a possible 2-year prison sentence. But the law has not been enforced since the 1990’s, partially because Singapore has so many multinational corporations with offices there, and it created a conflict when these corporations wanted to move LGBTQ employees to a city where they could be put in jail. So, the regime relaxed, and now Singapore is one of the gay capitals of Asia, with really energetic nightlife and a live-and-let-live attitude among the population, who generally keep their private affairs private out of respect to their families, no matter what the issue is. So this guy getting married is a really, really big deal, not that it was a secret that he was gay. It wasn’t. But it’s pretty scandalous to get married to another man in such a public way. Rock on Singapore.
MikeE
Thank-you Queerty for changing the headline.