The founder of Outrage Magazine, Michael David dela Cruz Tan completed BA Communication Studies from University of Newcastle in NSW, Australia; and Master of Development Communication from the University of the Philippines-Open University.
Conversant in Filipino Sign Language, Mick can: photograph, do artworks with mixed media, write (DUH!), shoot flicks, community organize, facilitate, lecture, and research (with pioneering studies under his belt).
He authored "Being LGBT in Asia: Philippines Country Report", and "Red Lives" that creatively retells stories from the local HIV community.
Among others, Mick received the Catholic Mass Media Awards in 2006 for Best Investigative Journalism, and Art that Matters - Literature from Amnesty Int'l Philippines in 2020.
Cross his path is the dare (guarantee: It won't be boring).
Meet #transgender woman Ella Baguio, who is basically prioritizing her family’s needs over hers as its breadwinner. Parents who can’t accept their #LGBTQIA children...
Meet Flong Flong Baculio, a #transgender #queer person from #Misamis Oriental, who believes local #LGBTQIA people should surface and work together if they want...
Meet #Tausug #transgender community leader Jaya Jaud from #Zamboanga, who laments the lack of a unified #LGBTQIA voice, making #discrimination easier to happen in...
Meet Mark Gil Dagapioso, 27, who heads Manticao Pride LGBTQ Organization. For him, the #LGBTQIA movement in Phl shouldn't forget those in #Mindanao in...
Meet #humanrights advocate, #transgender masculine non-binary person Reyel Xavier Inocencio, who believes that educating about #SOGIESC should happen in and out of the #LGBTQIA...
The existing form of Pride should be continuously challenged. Because it continues to be experienced just by a few. Because ways of “observing” Pride...
Meet #intersex woman Julie Anne Albay, who has uterine agenesis, a congenital condition wherein the reproductive system did not develop when a child was...
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...
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...