Imelda Marcos staged military drag show – WikiLeaks

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Former first lady Imelda Marcos once staged a grand birthday party for her husband, former president Ferdinand Marcos, complete with a runway and military generals dressed in women’s clothes, according to recently released US diplomatic cables. In a cable sent from then US ambassador to the Philippines William Sullivan in the 70s, Sullivan repots that the first lady held a “two-day blast” for the President and made the generals dress in drag – much to the chagrin of the generals’ wives. The cable was part of a massive dump of documents released by WikiLeaks on Monday. 

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