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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos NOT the first to invite LGBT community to Palace

By VERA Files | Jul 25, 2023 3:29 PM

A Facebook (FB) video claimed that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community were invited to Malacañang last month for the first time in history. This is not true. The group was also invited to the palace in 2019. “Take note, ito ang kauna-unahang pagkakataon na may mga nakapunta’t inimbitahan na mga […]

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FACT CHECK News

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Roque underplays Duterte flip-flop on same-sex marriage

By VERA FILES | Dec 20, 2017 2:42 PM

Roque described Duterte’s recent flip-flop on same-sex marriage as “somewhat new.” It’s not.

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FACT CHECK News

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte changes stand on same-sex marriage

By Vera Files | Mar 31, 2017 7:04 PM

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.

Duterte, lgbt, Same-sex marriage

Arts & Culture

QC LGBT Pride celebration: More than just a parade

Dec 13, 2015 10:57 PM

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 […]

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Arts & Culture

Envisioning Quezon City as gay capital just like San Francisco

Nov 27, 2013 3:18 PM

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 […]

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Arts & Culture

LGBT Pride Month—more than just about street parties

Jun 13, 2013 8:42 PM

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 […]

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Arts & Culture

Queer Manila: A crash course on LGBTs

Sep 16, 2012 10:37 PM

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.

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Arts & Culture Top Stories

God loves LGBTs, says ex-seminarian author

Jun 15, 2012 9:34 PM

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.

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Arts & Culture

Gay, deaf and mute: ‘No less than the trees and the stars they have a right to be here’

Mar 31, 2012 9:04 PM

By PATRICK KING PASCUAL

LESBIAN, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons with disabilities (LGBT PWDs) experience double discrimination in their daily life.

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UP student council elections: a Heartfelt triumph of LGBT community

Mar 17, 2012 12:47 AM

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.

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