The 1990s saw the formation of numerous LGBTQIA organizations in the Philippines, many of them championing LGBTQIA-related issues. So the 1990s may be when at least...
On June 26, 1994, ProGay Philippines and Metropolitan Community Church helmed a march in Quezon City. Dubbed as “Stonewall Manila” or as “Pride Revolution”, it was...
Toward the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the awareness of and on LGBTQIA Filipinos continued to grow. Helping increase particularly gay awareness,...
In 1992, a lesbian contingent, called Lesbian Collective, joined the International Women's Day march. It was the first demonstration attended by an organized sector from the...
It goes without saying that our current LGBTQIA-related concepts were greatly influenced by international media and local reinterpretations of LGBTQI people who spent time overseas. This...
The bakla have actually been organized since the 1960s in the Philippines, usually as neighborhood organizations with low-income members, and mainly to provide entertainment. And so...
For Michael L. Tan, to better understand the LGBTQIA community in the Philippines, understanding Filipino concepts of gender is necessary. This is because words used referring...
In the Philippines, gender non-conformity pre-dates the arrival of the Spaniards in 1521. Based on Spanish accounts of encounters between conquistadores and the archipelago’s original inhabitants,...
To help document the LGBTQIA history in the Philippines, Outrage Magazine launched “Living History”, a new section containing (at least) snippets of developments that helped shape...
