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Filipino LGBTQs Dare to Bare for Hubad: Mga Kuwento ng Kalayaan

September 15, 2012— Makati City— Lesbian Activism Project, Inc. (LeAP)*, in collaboration with the Filipino Freethinkers**, will stage a performance at...

The RH Bill and the Disintegrating Moral Fiber of the Philippines

Today on ANC's Headstart Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez has stated that she is against the RH bill because she worries about the bill...

Double Standards – Contraceptives and Medicines

Imagine a woman warned by her doctor to refrain from having a fifth pregnancy for medical reasons. She decides to use...

Holding Sotto Accountable for Plagiarism is Not a Distraction

Calling out Sotto on plagiarism is not a distraction from the RH Bill discussion because there’s no RH Bill discussion to distract from. The debates are over.

A Rebuttal to the Defense of CBCP’s Stand on the RH Bill

Bishop Gabriel V. Reyes defended the stand of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on the RH bill by saying that their opposition to contraceptives, which the RH bill seeks to fund and promote, is not based on faith or revelation, but on "natural law."

COMELEC Disqualifies “Ang Patay” Party List

Intramuros, Manila -- The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) held a review hearing yesterday for the party list "Ang Patay." The hearing ended...

“Your Mother Should Have Used RH,” Says BUHAY Spokesperson

I recorded this video interview with Frank when I got home from COMELEC before writing this post. Some details might be...

The Unborn Representatives: How BUHAY Makes a Mockery of the Party-List System

Note: Please also read how BUHAY responded to our opposition of their party-list accreditation in COMELEC. The party-list system of representation is...

Sotto: To Pass the Anti-Discrimination Bill, Discriminate LGBT First

Manila Bulletin reports that certain senators are opposing the Anti-Racial, Ethnic and Anti-Religious Discrimination Act of 2011 (the Anti Discrimination bill) because they want the provisions concerning the LGBT struck down. Among these senators is our favorite bigote’d senator, the Honorable Vincente Sotto III. What kind of legislators are the Filipino people getting when the first step these senators take to passing an anti discrimination law is to discriminate?

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