LGBT Rights

Let me be transparent with you. My objective for taking time and responding to you today is, at the most, to turn you into an ally, and at the least, to change some of your perceptions by giving you needed information.

The role of a newspaper, aside from providing information, is to educate the population. Thus, balanced reporting, which we had so forcefully fought for amidst multiple regimes and dictatorship, need to be preserved at all costs. This article, and its clearly skewed perspectives, fails to do so. Thus, it needs to be retracted immediately.

When Pope John Paul II formally apologized for the persecution of Galileo, it was an apology that took the Catholic Church more than 300 years to make. If it also needs 300 years for the Catholic Church to apologize for the persecution of LGBT people, then there is no better time for LGBT activists to start working on this but today.

It's been a while since we’ve last heard from Dr. Ligaya Acosta, who drew acclaim for her sold-out performance at last January's RH Bill forum at te Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health. Everybody still remembers how her crazy antics had the audience rolling in the aisles…

We should strive for a society that has reached a level of acceptance wherein sexuality does not even figure in discussions.

In 2003, Bishop Bacani was accused by his secretary of "sexual harassment for allegedly embracing her from behind and touching sensitive...

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines hosted a dinner forum with LGBT advocacy groups on The Struggle for LGBT Equality in the U.S. on Friday, May 27, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Botero Dali Room, Sulo Riviera Hotel, Quezon City. The speaker for the event was Ms. Christine Sun, former senior counsel, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation.

With the data Marlon has gathered so far, we’ve determined that 59 LGBTs have been slain, at least according to the news and accounts we have on file. Thirty-one of the slain were Gay men, 21 were Transgendered, six were Lesbian, and one was a Bisexual man.