Equality Philippines

Aruba Bar in Metrowalk has done it again. This bar, which reeks of discrimination, has continually refused entry to transgenders via a sign at the entrance: No Cross-Dressing. BB Gandanghari went to Aruba Bar & Restaurant because she wanted to watch her friend Rannie Raymundo’s show. But she and her friends were denied entry because they were cross-dressing. A similar incident happened not so long ago - at the same bar, to a different person: Inday Garutay. Continue Reading

lifted from Bakla Ako, May Reklamo? (I'm Gay, Got a Problem With That?) In a column titled Gay Philippines on the Philippine Daily Inquirer ( First Posted 06:45:00 09/29/2008) , Pompeyo Pedroche, wrote his reaction to a Youngblood Article of Renee Julienne Karunungan of UPLB. I'm not sure how to react to this column article but here are some points that I'd like to clarify with Mr. Pedroche. On Renee's "outcry" in her article that gays "suffer discrimination... are looked down upon, that obstacles are thrown at them... aren't fully accepted, are seen as immoral, are bashed and treated as freaks," Pedroche says that he's sure that it was not the Catholic Church that taught Renee that homosexuality is evil. I agree with Mr. Pedroche that such an idea is " preposterous and ghastly " but I disagree with him when he says that it definitely was not the Catholic Church that put that idea into Renee's head. Like many others out there, ...

i stumbled upon this post from a FULLMAN (he tacles politics, sexuality AND GAY AGENDA) i want to share it to all o f you... lalo na sa mga kagaya kong di masyadong aware sa mga ganitong panukala. (panukala talga? may ganun?!) Yes, it has been languishing in Congress since 1999, and yes, we’re still pushing for it. It ain’t over until it has been passed into law. The Anti-discrimination bill , filed this term as HB 956 by AKBAYAN Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel , seeks to prohibit a wide-range of discriminatory policies and practices against Filipino lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs). Homophobic groups and politicians (Remember that idiot, Rep. Abante ?) have used various tactics to block the bill, from scaring people that the bill is about same-sex marriage - which is patently untrue - to misleading people that it is not needed. What with these media-instigated raids in gay bars taking place, or gay men being victimized by hate crimes, and presumably gay sons or lesbia...