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He regularly returns to Malaysia and elsewhere in Asia to promote gay awareness.
Influential Malaysian religious figures and political conservatives remain vehemently opposed to the growing prominence of the country's gay community.
Authorities last year banned an annual gay-themed festival, featuring gay-oriented films, concerts and forums, while a prominent religious body in 2008 issued a fatwa against lesbian sex.
After Ngeo announced his wedding plans last year, Islamic Affairs Minister Jamil Khir Baharom denounced same-sex marriages as "extremism that... will create social problems".
Other officials and some Christian leaders also condemned Ngeo's nuptials.
Ngeo said gays should not let anything "paralyse us or scare us to silence".
"We should not be short-sighted and discouraged by unwanted backlash... We should not succumb to fear!" he said in his email.
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