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Gustavo Archilla

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Gustavo Archilla

Birth
Mayaguez, Mayagüez Municipality, Puerto Rico, USA
Death
27 Nov 2012 (aged 96)
Marco Island, Collier County, Florida, USA
Burial
Marco Island, Collier County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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Gustavo Abimael Archilla was born on Dec. 7, 1915, in Mayagüez, P.R., the oldest of nine surviving children. His father, a Presbyterian minister, moved to New York when Gustavo was a boy, and his family soon followed.

Gustavo Archilla's marriage in Canada in 2003 (after almost six decades of a quiet and committed relationship) inspired supporters of same-sex marriage, died on Nov. 27 on Marco Island, Fla., where he lived. He was 96.

Read More at: NY TIMES

And more: Elmer and Gus
Gustavo Abimael Archilla was born on Dec. 7, 1915, in Mayagüez, P.R., the oldest of nine surviving children. His father, a Presbyterian minister, moved to New York when Gustavo was a boy, and his family soon followed.

Gustavo Archilla's marriage in Canada in 2003 (after almost six decades of a quiet and committed relationship) inspired supporters of same-sex marriage, died on Nov. 27 on Marco Island, Fla., where he lived. He was 96.

Read More at: NY TIMES

And more: Elmer and Gus


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