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Despite growing numbers of schools implementing anti-bullying policies that include protections based on sexual or gender identity, rates of victimization remain high among lesbian,...
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- Lifestyle & Culture
Neighborhood and your social network affect binge drinking, study says
Can art link people at the time of COVID-19?
In the midst of COVID-19, The Slate welcomes LGBTQIA travelers to the shores of Phuket
Study finds gender bias in music recommendation algorithms
How to encourage your teen to get outside more
- Op Ed
LGBTQIA organizations lambast alleged anti-trans discrimination in resort in Davao del Norte
Forcing people with HIV to disclose to get vaccinated
For PLHIVs to get COVID-19 vaccine, policymakers are out of touch of grassroots realities…
Simplify COVID-19 vaccination of people with HIV; provide in hubs (there, I simplified it for you!)
Discrimination even in discriminated minority sectors
- Profiles
The fight for LGBTQIA human rights has just started – Regie Pasion
On the ongoing fight for LGBTQIA human rights, according to Floyd Scott Tiogangco
How Ricky Ducas, Jr. is breaking the silence on mental health
Kristine Ibardolaza sees need to push for equality including within the LGBTQIA community
How Leigh F. Capule sees opportunities to advocate for LGBTQIA human rights
- Living History
Call for intersex inclusion as House panel excludes ‘intersex’ in sex definition of proposed anti-discrimination law
UP releases guidelines affirming trans, gender non-conforming students’ names, pronouns, titles
SOGIE Equality Bill passes Senate committee; still in limbo due to anti-LGBTQIA senators
LGBTQIA people may designate partners as beneficiaries in insurance plans – Insurance Commission
Rainbow’s beginning
- POZ
Having an alter as a person with HIV
People at high risk for HIV know about prevention pill, but use remains low
Bisexual men feel more HIV stigma, are lonelier and more socially isolated versus gay men
30 HIV cases reported every day in Feb. 2021
People with HIV at high risk for intimate partner violence
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Features
Include ‘intersex’ in definition of ‘sex’ in proposed anti-discrimination law – Intersex Philippines
Intersex Philippines, the pioneering organization for intersex people in the Philippines, is calling for the inclusion of "intersex" in the definition of "sex" in...
Features
The term "intersex" was excluded in the definition of sex in the draft of the ironically-described "comprehensive anti-discrimination bill'. Now, Jeff Cagandahan of Intersex...
Features
@alabngdiwa created an alter account in Twitter in October 2018 "for more fluid and uninhibited interactions." He thinks this is a way for PLHIVs...
Health & Wellness
After adjustment for sociodemographic factors and exposure to other types of gender-affirming care, undergoing one or more types of gender-affirming surgery was associated with...
Lifestyle & Culture
Op-Ed
LGBTQIA organizations from all over the Philippines released a unified statement condemning the “unjust treatment” of LGBTQIA people, following the allegation of a transgender...
Lifestyle & Culture
Love Affairs
People You Should Know
People You Should Know
NEWSMAKERS
Fundamentalist believers are characterized by the fact that they take the holy scriptures of their religion literally and consider them to be unambiguously valid...
NEWSMAKERS
A transgender woman, Shannon Remotigue Gonzaga, alleged she experienced discrimination during a May 8 visit to Isla Reta Beach Resort in Samal. In response,...
NEWSMAKERS
Higher quality guidelines tended to focus mainly on HIV, and most others were on transition-related interventions. There were noticeable gaps in the topics of...
NEWSMAKERS
A substantially lower percentage of participants reported not experiencing in-person violence, but did report the experience of intimate partner "cyber" violence. Almost every respondent...
Op-Ed
The continuing narrative of a Filipino living with HIV as he seeks to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
Op-Ed
A Filipino living with HIV documents the challenges he's encountering to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Op-Ed
You want a simplified solution here? Offer COVID-19 vaccines for PLHIVs in their treatment facilities. Tapos! If drafting detailed guidelines may feel "tedious", be...
From the Editor
If we don't start looking at discrimination of LGBTQIA people by other LGBTQIA people, then the LGBTQIA community becomes similar to the very system...
#KaraniwangLGBT
With separated parents, #bisexual Minjun Jay Sawan from #Cotabato City didn't grow with a (traditional) family... until a #gay man adopted him. Now finishing...
#KaraniwangLGBT
People You Should Know
Lifestyle & Culture
For some people, social gatherings can be a time to imbibe. And for some, that can turn into a time to overindulge.
Lifestyle & Culture
Can you create intimacy with a stranger through the virtual space? Meet Ran Öz and Johannes Frick, two queer artists from different countries (i.e....
Travel
The Slate, the art-inspired beachfront resort in Phuket in Thailand, is rolling out the rainbow-colored welcome mat for the LGBTQIA community. And - YES!...
Lifestyle & Culture
A study found that a widely used recommendation algorithm is more likely to choose music by male artists to the detriment of female artists.
Health & Wellness
A dual-prong approach is necessary to up the HPV vaccination rate for those who are male, with renewed pushes from pediatricians to target kids...
Health & Wellness
Improving the relationship between parents and children could prevent subsequent mental health problems, even in children who have experienced severe adversities.
Health & Wellness
The effect of bullying prevention programs tends to be small-to-moderate, so it is likely that students will always see a certain level of bullying...
Health & Wellness
Unconscious wakefulness, also known as cortical arousal, is a normal part of sleep. It occurs spontaneously and is part of the body's ability to...
People You Should Know
Meet Regie Pasion, who helms Marikina City-based LGBTBus Philippines. "Some LGBTQIA people have settled into a melancholic place in society where the accepted norm...
People You Should Know
Meet Floyd Scott Tiogangco, 2018 Outstanding Young Human Rights Defender awardee of Amnesty International - Philippines. "I really do think we need more young...
People You Should Know
When he was 33, Ricky Ducas, Jr. was diagnosed with Panic Anxiety Disorder. This showed him the continuing stigmatization of mental health issues in...
People You Should Know
Meet Kristine T. Ibardolaza, the first transgender woman elected as barangay councilor in Antipolo City. She laments that "we long and crave for equality,...
Love Affairs
Jealousy is activated when a relationship we care about is threatened. The function is probably to minimize threats to this relationship. These threats have...
Love Affairs
In hindsight, “I think we fell in love with each other even before we started dating exclusively,” filmmaker Cha Roque said. And then, musician/Web...
Love Guides
Four distinct methods - Angling, Pairing, Rocking and Shallowing - are used by women for sexual pleasure.
Love Affairs
Being a responsive partner - one who focuses effort and energy to listen to their partner without reacting, tries to understand what's being expressed...
POZ
While 98% of the study's participants were aware of PrEP, less than 25% were currently taking it. Beliefs about and experiences with healthcare may...
POZ
Bisexual men with HIV reported greater levels of self-stigma, worse self-image and poorer emotional wellbeing compared to gay men.
POZ
With HIV services at least starting to pick up at the time of COVID-19, the number of Filipinos reported to have HIV by the...
POZ
Intimate partner violence found to be associated with riskier behaviors associated with elevated transmission of HIV, increased depression and anxiety, and poor adherence to...
POZ
The Department of Health a memorandum providing further guidance on COVID-19 vaccination of persons with comorbidities, including people with HIV. For Stephen Christian Quilacio...
Features
UP eyes to formalize transgender-affirmative moves starting immediately, following the release of a memorandum that states that "the university values and upholds the dignity...
Living History
The SOGIE Equality Bill - the latest iteration of the proposed anti-discrimination law that will protect the human rights of LGBTQIA Filipinos - was...
Features
The partners of LGBTQIA people may be designated as the beneficiaries of insurance plans, according to the Insurance Commission.
From the Editor
You know why LGBTQIA Pride is observed in June? It's all because of an uprising that happened in June 1969 in a somewhat nondescript...
