A registered nurse, John Ryan (or call him "Rye") Mendoza hails from Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao (where, no, it isn't always as "bloody", as the mainstream media claims it to be, he noted). He first moved to Metro Manila in 2010 (supposedly just to finish a health social science degree), but fell in love not necessarily with the (err, smoggy) place, but it's hustle and bustle. He now divides his time in Mindanao (where he still serves under-represented Indigenous Peoples), and elsewhere (Metro Manila included) to help push for equal rights for LGBT Filipinos. And, yes, he parties, too (see, activists need not be boring! - Ed).
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When he discovered Cagwait White Beach, dubbed as the "Little Boracay of CARAGA", John Ryan Mendoza said he automatically expected to feel the powder-like...
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John Ryan Mendoza lambasts Eat Bulaga’s ‘Suffer SiReyna’, a spin-off of the noontime show’s transgender beauty pageant ‘Super Sireyna’, where he says the candidates...