VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos NOT the first to invite LGBT community to Palace
A Facebook video claimed that members of the LGBT community were invited to Malacañang last month for the first time in history. This is not true.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Roque underplays Duterte flip-flop on same-sex marriage
Roque described Duterte’s recent flip-flop on same-sex marriage as "somewhat new." It's not.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte changes stand on same-sex marriage
President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month said he cannot approve of same-sex marriage because the law allows marriage only between a man and a woman.
QC LGBT Pride celebration: More than just a parade
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL “MORE than the parade, more than the march and festival, this celebration is the delivery of actual programs and policies for LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) people,” Percival Cendaña, commissioner of the National Youth Commission, said of the recent LGBT Pride celebration in Quezon City. The celebration took special
Envisioning Quezon City as gay capital just like San Francisco
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL QUEZON City as the gay capital just like San Francisco and Amsterdam? Why not, if what Quezon City Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte wants would be achieved. “We want Quezon City to champion when it comes to practicing the rights of the LGBTs,” Belmonte said during a summit for the LGBTs
LGBT Pride Month—more than just about street parties
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL FESTIVE street parties, parades and marches usually mark the annual celebration of Pride month in June by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in the country and elsewhere. “But Pride Month is not just about parties,” Michael David Tan, executive director of Bahaghari Center for LGBT Research, Education
Queer Manila: A crash course on LGBTs
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL IT was another first in the struggle to have their rightful place in society. The recently-concluded “Queer Manila” art exhibit at the Manila Contemporary on Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati was a crash course on LGBTs, short for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender.
God loves LGBTs, says ex-seminarian author
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
Coming to terms with one’s self is not easy for homosexuals in a society where gender is limited to either male or female.
Raymond Alikpala, 46, a lawyer and formerly a seminarian, knows very well the anguish of living in the shadows having done so in the first 38 years of his life.
Gay, deaf and mute: ‘No less than the trees and the stars they have a right to be here’
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
LESBIAN, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons with disabilities (LGBT PWDs) experience double discrimination in their daily life.
UP student council elections: a Heartfelt triumph of LGBT community
By PATRICK KING PASCUAL
MARCH 1, 2012 was a historic date not only for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community but also for the University of the Philippines.