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).
With Mar Roxas’ position re LGBT people (e.g. not supporting marriage equality as a public policy, tolerance of his friends and relatives in same-sex...
Outrage Magazine’s exclusive interview with Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero – who is running as Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines in #Eleksyon2016...
Despite the issues of the LGBT community now seemingly included in discussions with politicians seeking national positions, Michael David C. Tan says LGBT people...
Outrage Magazine meets LGBT ‘lakbayanis’ (participants of Manilakbayan 2015, a people’s caravan that takes members of rural communities from Mindanao to the heart of...