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Firm or satirical? This video on the " IMPENETRABLE REASONS ON WHY HOMOSEXUALITY SHOULD BE BANNED " was posted by a Facebook contact and caught my eye the very moment I woke up. What a good way to start my day. I could sense my blood pressure rise upon watching this. This video reflects the traditional, bigoted religious view against homosexuality, and I just curse this guy speaking here. GAPANGIN KO SYA EH kapal ng mukha nya. When will you guys ever STOP THINKING that we are a MENACE to society and to religion?? LET LIVE nalang sana. Hindi naman namin kayo inaano. On the other hand, as per the reminder of close friends, as I went over the thread of of 12,100+ comments on this video at YouTube, I noticed that there is a possibility of this guy being sarcastic and satirical. Many do notice the sarcasm in this cute guy's face, since his views here sum up all arguments against homosexuality. So I'd hunt him down wherever he is in the US either to MARRY HIM or to KILL HIM...

I was on my way home when I got an itch to tune in to "Good times with Mo, Mojo and Grace Lee" on Magic 89.9. I've been hearing a lot about the trio from a friend on how good they carry any topics that's being brought on the table. She said it's a good jump-start for her day, I said what the "f" I work during graveyard. But still I gave in. DJ Mo heading the trio, is known for being bold, straight to the point, eloquent, witty, spontaneous and entertaining. I know no one that I know (or close to me) would admit that they like Mo Twister, or maybe few or very, very few rather. In the entertainment business, someone who's very upfront, tactless and sharp will always have a bunch of haters. Maybe more than half of the population who knows him hates him just like maybe same percentage of the Pinoy that hates Kris Aquino. Tell it to me. Why am I not surprised? Anywho, they can talk about anything and everything under the sun - from politics, current eve...

Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the First LGBT Pride March in the Philippines and Asia! Baguio Pride Week Activities June 22-28 I got this from the ProGAY Yahoogroup I subscribed. For inquiries, please send your queries to progaynet-at-yahoo-dot-com. Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the First LGBT Pride March in the Philippines and Asia! Baguio Pride Week Activities June 22 (Monday) "Libreng Gupit Alay sa Pamayanan" (Free Haircut for the People). Venue: People's Park, 9am-5pm June 23 (Tuesday) Pink Film showing of "Babae" "If These Walls Could Talk" "Priscilla, Queen of the Jungle" Starts 3pm Venue: City Tavern Bar June 24 (Wednesday) El Toro Ms. Gay Beauty Pageant and Variety Show! Starts 8:00 Venue: El Toro Comedy Bar @ KM3, Central District, Marcos Highway "L" Night Starts 8pm Venue: City Tavern Bar 101 MS Florendo Buidling cor. Abanao Street June 25 (Thursday) Pink Film Showing "For the Bible Tells Me So" Starts ...

Book Review on American English Professor Michael Warner's book "The Trouble with Normal". This post was written by RBP team member line of flight from Sampaloc Toc . Michael Warner is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He is one of the founding thinkers in "queer theory" starting with his edited book Fear of a Queer Planet . When first published, The Trouble with Normal was seen as a response to Andrew Sullivan's book Virtually Normal and the move in sexual minority and dissident communities towards a stable LGBT identity community and same-sex marriage as the ultimate goal of such a community. Until the 1990s, the U.S. did not have a clear and stable notion of an LGBT community -- there were transgender communities, gay communities, lesbian communities and some overlap. This is still true about a global LGBT community. This unifying of different groups of people into an LGBT community produced a unified political agenda. For Warner, this polit...

Book Review on Canadian Sociology Professor Tina Fetner's 2008 book "How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism". This post was written by RBP team member line of flight from Sampaloc Toc . Tina Fetner is a sociology professor in Canada and identified herself as a "straight woman." She reviewed documents from both the religious right and gay and lesbian sources and made a simple claim. The modern American LGBT movement was primarily shaped by the forces of the religious right. The religious right had better organization and way more money to contribute to opposing LGBT claims -- at least, how they saw those claims. This ended up, in LGBT organzing terms, putting significant resources and time into responding to that opposition, even if the area of battle was not a priority for the LGBT movement. As has been discussed at length in other scholarship, until the religious right started organizing against the mild anti-discrimination laws the LGBT movem...

By fullman It's back to barracks, pink soldiers. Contrary to what you've been hearing from your generals and the media, there is no clear go-signal yet for LGBT soldiers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. First, some clarifications. There is no official ban for LGBTs in the military , hence no ban was technically lifted when top military officials made positive statements about allowing LGBTs in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. That said, it must be stated as well that the AFP has no policy explicitly allowing LGBTs in the military .  So the question to ask is: ano ba talaga, mga papa ? We've been getting mixed and confusing statements from the military establishments. In several committee hearings in Congress for the Anti-Discrimination Bill filed by AKBAYAN , representatives from the AFP would always bring 'unofficial' position papers stating that lesbians and gays cannot be allowed to join the military. In one hearing, the reasons they provided were abs...

Flowers remind me of colors and colors remind me of rainbows. The Panagbenga Festival 2009 kicked off last February 1 and the A4-long set on eye-straining Arial Narrow #8 font list of activities gave no mention of any Baguio Pride event. Sad. But what in gay hell is a "Queer Pride Mass"? Baguio Pride is organizing one on February 23, 2009, 3:00 PM @ the Ayuyang Bar. I guess there's only one way to find out... N.B. Panagbenga 2009 (Feb 1-Mar 8) Schedule