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Click the Picture for the Menu Date: April 19, 2009, Sunday Time: 7:00am to 4:00pm Place: Paseo de Sta. Rosa, Sta. Rosa, Laguna Contact Person: John Baluyot Contact No.: 0916 27 985 27 If you have any inquiries, you may contact John through the mobile no. above and his YM ID and e-mail: wightlyter@yahoo.com

Sa panahon ngayon, sobrang dami na ng bakla ang nagpapanggap na bi sa Pilipinas. At ang mas nakakalungkot pa dito ay meron talagang mangilan-ngilan na naniniwalang bi ka na basta hindi ka lang effem. Ok, para malinawan ang karamihan, eto ang mga palatandaan para malaman mo kung ano ka nga ba. Ikaw ay: Gay/Bakla - Kapag ikaw ay naaarouse sexually sa mga lalake, at lalake lang. -Kung lalake lang ang tinitingnan mo kapag tumitingin ka ng porn sa internet. -Kung puro nota lang ang gusto mo. Notes, notes, notes puro notes at walang boobs. -Kung hindi ka naaarouse sexually sa katawan ng babae. -Kung mas pipiliin mo pang magpenitensya at mapapako sa krus kahit tapos na ang mahal na araw kesa makipagsex sa babae. * kahit na kasing laki pa ng bodybuilder ang katawan mo at kahit na kasing straight acting ka pa ni Robin Padilla, basta kasama ka sa mga nakalista sa sa taas ibig sabihin nun Girlash/Gay/Bakla ka. Bi - Kung ikaw ay naaarouse sexually sa PAREHONG lalake at BABAE. -Kung parehong baba...

Akda ni Marlon Lacsamana Taong 1984 ng sa kauna-unahang pagkakataon ay mayroong naitala na Pilipino sa Philippine’s National AIDS Registry ng Department of Health (DOH). Mula noon, umaabot na sa 3,589 ang nakalista na may HIV hanggang Disyembre ng 2008. Sa bawat taon, patuloy ang pagtaas ng bilang ng mga taong nabubuhay na may HIV sa bansa. Kapansin-pansin din ang bilis ng pagdami ng mga kasong naitala sa kasalukuyang dekada kumpara noong dekada ’80s at ’90s. Mula 1984 hangang 1989 ay may kulang-kulang sa 50. Sa taong 1990 hangang 1992 mahigit 50 pero kulang sa 100 ang mga kaso sa loob ng taon. Sa taong 1993 hangang 2004, humihigit na sa 100 ang kaso. Sa taong 2006 mahigit 300 ang naitala. At sa 2008 mahigit 500. (NEC, 2008). Tanggap na ngayon sa bansa na ang HIV ay hidden and growing. Ito ay isang pagtingin na mula na rin sa UNAIDS. Ang pagsusuring ito ay bag na sa dating paniniwala na mula lamang sa mga mosk at risk population (MARPs) – persons in prostitutions and their clients, mal...

Book Review on American English Professor Michael Warner's book "The Trouble with Normal". This post was written by RBP team member line of flight from Sampaloc Toc . Michael Warner is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He is one of the founding thinkers in "queer theory" starting with his edited book Fear of a Queer Planet . When first published, The Trouble with Normal was seen as a response to Andrew Sullivan's book Virtually Normal and the move in sexual minority and dissident communities towards a stable LGBT identity community and same-sex marriage as the ultimate goal of such a community. Until the 1990s, the U.S. did not have a clear and stable notion of an LGBT community -- there were transgender communities, gay communities, lesbian communities and some overlap. This is still true about a global LGBT community. This unifying of different groups of people into an LGBT community produced a unified political agenda. For Warner, this polit...

The Dan & Rye Show turns 2 today! In this week's episode, Dan & Rye ask themselves: Is this as good as it gets? Listen up and pay attention. We have a special invitation towards the end. http://tdrs.mypodcast.com

It's official. I'm off to India around the second week of May to attend the Regional Institute on Sexuality, Society and Culture sponsored by New Delhi-based NGO Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues (TARSHI). You can view their website here . The Regional Institute is one of TARSHI's programmes and is on its fifth year. Each year beginning 2004, TARSHI has put out a call for participants from South and Southeast Asia, 20 of whom, after a nomination, application and selection process, are brought together to go through eight days of learning and discussion with a focus on sexuality, gender and reproductive health. The topics that participants tackle include the relationship between sexuality and gender, sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, sexuality and pleasure, sexuality and rights, issues in sex work, sexuality and popular culture/representation. It should go without saying that I am ecstatic over the prospect of taking part in this year's Reg...

Book Review on American Anthropology Professor Tanya Erzen's 2006 book "Straight to Jesus". This post was written by RBP team member line of flight from Sampaloc Toc . Tanya Erzen is an American anthropologist and professor and identified herself as a "straight woman." She interviews and observes an ex-gay community south of San Francisco, California over the course of a year and does a bit of historical research of ex-gay faith communities, the media and political movements. In the late 1990s, the religious right in the U.S. began heavily promoting ex-gays as a political maneuver to deny LGBT claims for anti-discrimination laws or equal protection under the law. The LGBT community responded with an attack on ex-gays -- the 1999 movie But I'm a Cheerleader is a classic example. Yet, Enzer doesn't focus on either of these two opposing movements, the LGBT political movement or the religious right's political movement. Instead, she focuses on the suff...

Book Review on Canadian Sociology Professor Tina Fetner's 2008 book "How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism". This post was written by RBP team member line of flight from Sampaloc Toc . Tina Fetner is a sociology professor in Canada and identified herself as a "straight woman." She reviewed documents from both the religious right and gay and lesbian sources and made a simple claim. The modern American LGBT movement was primarily shaped by the forces of the religious right. The religious right had better organization and way more money to contribute to opposing LGBT claims -- at least, how they saw those claims. This ended up, in LGBT organzing terms, putting significant resources and time into responding to that opposition, even if the area of battle was not a priority for the LGBT movement. As has been discussed at length in other scholarship, until the religious right started organizing against the mild anti-discrimination laws the LGBT movem...

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This Maundy Thursday, I am making it official: Adam Lambert (who is shown kissing another guy in the delicious pic above) should now be declared as the new American Idol. The producers of the show should issue an advisory that after Adam's unparalleled rendition of the Tears for Fears classic Mad World on Tuesday night, they have no choice but to discontinue the show and just hand over the prize to Adam. Continuing the show will be a mere farce anyway. We all know that Adam will just kill it every week until he wins the title of 2009's American Idol. There is no reason to prolong what is inevitable. The first time I saw Adam, I was intrigued by his musical theater background, eye liner, tight leather pants and black nail polish. I knew when I saw his audition that he would bring something special to the show. So far he has not disappointed me yet. Week after week, with his unique voice, matching good looks and his own interpretation of songs such as Bohemian Rhapsody by Quee...

Dead...Dead...Dead.... (another vampire addiction) see pictures here: http://www.vinvinjacla.com/2009/04/deaddeaddead-another-vampire-addiction.html April 8, 2009Thanks to Twilight, I've somehow developed a special liking to vampires. Well, it's not that I've actually met one (if there's even one in the first place). It's just kinda like...vampires somehow grew on me. LOLZ!I so still wanna have a vampire boyfriend.Anyway, just allow me to introduce you to Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse.Sookie is more like the "adult version" of Bella. She's the main character in the "Sookie Stackhouse Novels" (well, the name says it all) created by the genius, Charlaine Harris. Now, for those who are 16 years old and below, these books may not be for you since they kinda have some "adult" topics in it like sex and stuff. Just wait until you reach 18 or so.Going back...Sookie works as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's, a local bar in Bon Temps which i...

Thanks to my friend MJ for this video. This serves as a HOMOHISTORY 101 lesson to everyone. Enjoy the video and if you want to sing along, I posted the lyrics below. PRIDE 2009 Music & lyrics by Jon Gilbert Leavitt Silk top hats and button shoes, erotic tintypes, midnight cruise, Berlin gay society 1903 Sigmund Freud's Vienna's hype, identifies the homo-type, The Intermediate Sex and Heterodoxy The gay wave moves across the sea, hello there Miss Liberty, Betty Boop is hot and hooch is out in the cold Greenwich Village, Bloomsbury, gays in high society, Harlem nights, Chicago fights, Leopold and Loeb... [CHORUS]: Pride, gotta have pride - we've been around too long to keep it inside. Pride, can't sit back and watch from the side, pride is power and power is pride. It's time to celebrate all the colors of the rainbow, get out into the streets, follow the tide... The Captive hits the Broadway stage, The Fleet's In, Cadmus' all the rage, and The Well of Lon...

Revived Ep 6, Bed Revisited Out Now! Dan & Rye talk about their recent trip home, say thanks to friends who made it worthwhile, and apologize to all the other friends whom they weren't able to catch up with (including the Fabcasters) http://tdrs.mypodcast.com Listen up, kasuys!

The movie that all of you have been waiting for, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela , opens on April 11, 2009 exclusively at Robinson's Galleria, in Pasig City. I hope you will go out of your way to support this Cinderalla-story about a transpinay (transgender Filipina) from Cebu. The movie has won the following awards: Best Feature Film, Teddy Awards, Berlin Film Festival, Germany Grand Jury Prize, Cinemanila Film Festival, Philippines Best Feature Fiction, Zinegoak Film Festival, Spain Best International Feature, New York LGBT Film Festival, USA Showtime Vanguard Award, New York LGBT Film Festival, USA Jury Award, Cinema City, Serbia The synposis follows below: Raquela is a transsexual from the Philippines who dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris. In order to make her dreams come true, she turns from prostitution toward the more lucrative business of Internet porn. Her success as a porn star brings new friends, including Valerie, another t...

GAY RIGHTS ADVOCATE, EDUCATOR, WRITER AND 2010 SENATORIAL CANDIDATE, PROF DANTON REMOTO's phones began to ring in earnest yesterday, as they have done so in the last two weeks, when political operators and campaign teams would call him and ask if they could make appointments with Remoto. He set one appointment, with one major political party that belongs to the Opposition, and they have included Danton Remoto in the pool of senatorial candidates that their Executive Committee has to vet as its official 12 candidates for senator. Of ficial announcements will be made later this month, and a formal oath-taking will follow. And so, the candidate that Comelec did not want to run in 2007, who was called a nuisance candidate, now belongs to a political party that will slug it out block by block, town by town, city by city, province by province, and region by region, in the great, grand battle of the May 2010 elections. Let the games begin!

I could hardly believe my ears when, over lunch with a group of office mates one day, I heard a devastating conversation from the other end of the table regarding a friend who was known to regularly update his blogs. The conversation went something like, "Di ko pa nakikita un...baka naman late lang?" The sarcastic answer of this egoistic bastard was, "baka nagb-blog pa!" And there was a sudden burst of loud, insulting LAUGHTER. Contemplative as I am, I pondered on the scene and got to ask myself, is this how bad these people view and MOCK writers who find blogging as an avenue to express their thoughts and emotions? While we writers find it fulfilling to scribble our thoughts in the hopes of sharing it with the public and with readers who can relate with us, unknowingly, the majority of people MOCK US and seemingly find WRITING, BLOGGING, and READING BLOGS a waste of time, a ridiculous practice, or a PATHETIC recourse. This is VERY SAD to realize. Yes, we know there...

What rouses you? LEMONITES II: PROVOCATIONS April 13. 8.30 pm. Magnet Katipunan. featuring a rousing lesbian play by Sipat Lawin Ensemble " To Heat You Up and Cool You Down " Two women working in a bar and their thoughts coming to life: Memory, Lust, Adaptability, Imagination/ Desire and Planning/ Habit mechanism. With steamy performances by: TETAS FLUSH AND THE TOILETS and more! LUS: Sensual Art, Dance and Poetry Entrance is P150, with P50 consumable for a drink for more info, visit www.lunudyanngsining.com

Just 2 days ago, I was so stressed out as my parents, after 31 years of marriage, made the decision to (finally) part ways. This was not easy in the eyes of a 31-year-old only child, but I let it be as I am too old to be taking sides. I maintained a neutral stand on the matter but promised my Mom that I'd support whatever decision she would make TO THE LAST LETTER. Moving back, Friday before this incident happened, I had my usual Skype chat with my niece, who happens to be my only 101% confidant. I don't know what grimness wrapped us both that day and I cannot anymore remember why, of all topics, we discussed my father's physical abuse on me when I was a kid. I was teary-eyed while chatting, as I related to my niece my most unforgettable beat-up day: It was a rainy afternoon. Merienda was ready -- purefoods hotdogs, tasty bread, and Anchor butter. That was summer after finishing 3rd grade (I was 9). That afternoon, no water was running from the faucet so we were skimping on...

I purposely waited for April Fool's Day to pass and did not make any attempt at making an April Fool's post because I was sure I'd fail miserably at it. Belated Happy April Fool's Day to all though. Monica Roberts, long-time activist for transgender civil rights in the US, over at her blog Transgriot made a jaw-dropping April Fool's blog entry that you can read here . She also cross-posted it on Bilerico for the same occasion. It put all the other posts to shame. Her April Fool's Day entry absolutely made the others pale in comparison. I can't wait for what she will cook up next year. This morning when I opened my email, I saw that the organizers of the World Outgames 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark already sent me my official invitation letter. The World Outgames is an international event organized by the LGBT community for the LGBT community. The first Outgames was held in Montreal in 2006. The second one is happening this summer from July 25 to August 2 i...

Mga kapatid, allow me to post this very important letter from my kababayan. Please lets help her. God will pay you back. Salamat. ------------- Her name is Ronna. She was an active English Majors Society member and a really attentive student. But she would rush off every after class because she had to stand behind the college canteen counter and help out Na Azum with the puto and the lumpia. This is how I will always remember Ronna --the tall, pretty, shy girl who was very determined to finish her BSEd-English program; the Engmasoc member who was always there in every activity despite her wicked working-student hours. The girl who had always been there to help out with just about everything. She finished, passed the board, became a teacher...of course. And now she needs help. Some 7 months ago, she gave birth to her first girl. Soon after, Freah Kirstin, Ronna’s baby, was confined in the Philippine General Hospital and diagnosed to be suffering from a decompensated liver disease second...