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Nabors, 82, said he married his companion of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, who's 64, inward Seattle on Jan. 15.
Nabors declined an on-camera interview but spoke to Hawaii News Now past phone.
"I'm 82 as well as he's inward his 60s as well as and thus we've been together for 38 years as well as I'm non ashamed of people knowing, it's simply that it was such a personal thing, I didn't enjoin anybody," Nabors said. "I'm really happy that I've had a partner of 38 years as well as I experience really blessed. And, what tin lav I enjoin you, I'm simply really happy."
Nabors said he as well as Cadwallader traveled to Washington state, where gay marriages became legal inward early on Dec 2012. They were married at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel inward Seattle.
A estimate performed the matrimony ceremony inward the privacy of their hotel room amongst a span of friends who alive downward the street from them close Diamond Head every bit witnesses, Nabors said.
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Before they were married, Nabors said, "It's pretty obvious that nosotros had no rights every bit a couple, yet when you've been together 38 years, I call back something's got to fall out there, you've got to solidify something. And at my age, it's in all likelihood the best affair to do."
Nabors said he met Cadwallader inward 1975 when Cadwallader was a Honolulu burn downward fighter. He eventually went to function for Nabors as well as they began a relationship.
Nabors has no design to acquire involved inward the gay matrimony debate.
"I'm non a debater. And everybody has their ain regard nearly this as well as truly I'm non an activist as well as thus I've never gotten involved inward whatsoever of this," Nabors said.
His alone interest inward a effort happened final year, when Nabors recorded a radio spot for quondam Hawaii Gov. Ben Cayetano's effort for Honolulu mayor, because he's a shut friend of Cayetano as well as his married woman Vicky.
When he worked full-time inward Hollywood inward the 1960s as well as 1970s, Nabors said he was opened upward nearly his homosexuality to co-workers as well as friends but never acknowledged it to the media until now.
"I haven't always made a world spectacle of it. Well, I've known since I was a child, so, come upward on. It's non that sort of a thing. I've never made a huge cloak-and-dagger of it at all," Nabors said.
"This is truly no large deal. My friend as well as I, my partner, nosotros went through all of this 38 years ago," Nabors added. "So I mean, nosotros made our vows as well as that was it. It was to each other, but nevertheless, nosotros were a couple."
Asked if he had whatsoever advice to immature gays as well as lesbians simply outset to bargain amongst their sexual orientation, he said: "I truly don't take whatsoever advice. I don't call back I'm qualified because I simply could grip it my ain way. And you lot don't always sympathise what people await downward on you, or say savage things to you lot nearly that assort of thing, but nevertheless, that's simply life, as well as you lot simply take to make it a higher home it."
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Last May, Nabors underwent opened upward middle surgical procedure at Queens Medical Center.
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A vocalizer known for his rich baritone voice, Nabors likewise performed inward musical theatre productions inward Florida, Nevada as well as Hawaii. For 10 years, he starred inward the annual production of Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Merry Christmas With Friends as well as Nabors at Hawaii Theatre inward Honolulu, ending inward 2006.
Nabors said he said he knew he loved Hawaii the foremost fourth dimension he traveled to the islands inward the 1960s.
"I simply walked off that airplane as well as knew this is where I wanted to be. It was the air as well as the friendship as well as the friendliness as well as the people, you lot know. I simply knew, there's something within me that told me 'Hey, you're gonna terminate upward here,'" Nabors said. "I dearest this place. I dearest everything nearly it."
