Tag: lgbt

The hypocrisy in Filipinos’ anger towards US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton

October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 benign0 139 Comments

Within the mounting virtually national initiative to demonise not just United States Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton but the entire US military over the murder of Filipino transgender Jeffrey Laude, it is difficult to find any semlance of credibility among the noisiest of Filipino ‘activists’. The Philippines is home to one of the…

Crime, Culture, Government, Society

The transgender life: It’s not just about becoming a girl, it’s about becoming an ATTRACTIVE chick!

October 16, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

One thing that the brouhaha over the murder of Jeffrey Laude (allegedly by Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton of the United States Marine Corps) revealed is that Filipino transgenders live in legal limbo in the Philippines. No less than the Philippine Supreme Court is reportedly “confused” over how to regard them. The publisher of…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Politics, Science, Society

Was Jeffrey Laude a prostitute who concealed his true gender in the practice of his trade?

October 15, 2014October 19, 2022 benign0 140 Comments

As expected, gay activists are now all over the case of the murder of transgender Jeffrey ‘Jennifer’ Laude. According to Benjamin Pimentel who wrote about the incident in the context of Gay Pride in his Inquirer piece Death of a Filipino transgender, “Despite progress and victories on many fronts, violence is still a frightening reality…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Is same-sex marriage a more important issue than divorce??

October 10, 2014June 27, 2015 Kate Natividad 64 Comments

I often wonder about the twisted priorities of Philippine society. I read just now how Quezon City Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista is reportedly mulling the allowing of same-sex marriage in his city. Ok, so how is it that something like that takes precedence over — and garners a lot more media mileage than — a…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

Facebook apologises for crackdown on drag queens and LGBT community

October 2, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

The community of “drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community” can now rest easy after Facebook promised to improve its system for verifying accounts flagged as “fake” by other users. The social media firm also apologised for what many perceived to be an unwarranted…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Do we have the right to judge Ai Ai delas Alas?

September 17, 2014 Kate Natividad 18 Comments

She’s 50 years old. He’s 20 and a college student at the De La Salle University (DLSU). According to reports they’re in love and their respective families enjoy good relationships with one another. Ai Ai seems to have a good relationship with her boyfriend’s family, as she sometimes posts her photos together with Gerald’s family…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Coca Cola desperately needs to get the world hooked on Coke

February 5, 2014August 18, 2022 benign0 9 Comments

So there is this Coke ad aired during the Superbowl that features some Tagalog words in a rendition of the American nationalist song “America the Beautiful”, specifically the words “Sa ibabaw ng mga prutas” (which translates to “Above the fruited plain” for those who speak American). Speaking of fruity plains, the ad also touted Coke…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

Do “Equality Advocates” Really Need a Line?

April 4, 2013July 5, 2013 ChinoF 71 Comments

There are currently so many online advocates fighting for this and that. They want freedom for gays, freedom from the moral tyranny of the church, freedom from religion, freedom from reclamation projects, etc. Lately, there’s this fad on Facebook profile pics being replaced with a red equal sign — said to represent equality for LGBTs…

Glitz and Glamour