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The New Gay Revolution?
Tapping Next Gen GLBTQIA Activists
By Mikee dela Cruz
During the Holy Week of 2010, Jethro Cuenca Patalinghug organized the Take the Test, a campaign that wanted to trigger MSMs (in Puerto Galera) to get themselves tested for STIs, including HIV and/or AIDS.
Due to “our promotion in the Net, there were a lot who expressed (their intent) to partake of the activity/test – in fact, we were able to educate around 200 participants during our activity, 30% of (that number taking) the test,” says Patalinghug, whose group was also partly financed by money raised through social networking. With this, Patalinghug has become a prime example of how the New Media now plays a primary role in pushing for GLBTQIA issues.
Violence Against Filipino GLBTQIs
The Years of Living Dangerously
By M.D. dela Cruz Tan
In November 2006, Ilocos Norte Rep. Imee Marcos suggested for the government to develop a program that will teach gays “Kung Fu or other forms of martial arts or self-defense for them to be able to defend themselves.” The urgency is needed because of the “sunud-sunod na pagpatay sa mga bakla (murder of gays one after another)”, or, possibly, “gumagalang gay killer (gay killer on the loose),” she said. With this, hate crimes against Filipino GLBTQIs come in focus - something of a necessity since gay murders have become common in the Philippines, and with many GLBTQIs even internalizing the blame for crimes committed against them.
Queer Sibs
On Fag Hags, Fag Stags and Dyke Tykes
By Mikee dela Cruz
The term "fag hag," referring to a “woman who either associates mostly or exclusively with homosexual men, or is best or good friends with a gay man or men,” as defined by Reference.com, as well as by Wikipedia.org, is not exactly the most flattering term (read: hag).
Ditto the male counterpart terms – men who have the same relationships with lesbians – dyke tykes, dyke dog, rug doctor, or Dutch boys, among others. And while generally accepted to be used now, the term (and many of its variations) was actually started as an insult. But as GLBTQIAs continue making headways to acceptability, friendships between hets and GLBTQIAs are now focused not on the addresses, but on the, well, friendships.
Drugged States
Drug/Substance Use/Abuse among GLBTQIAs
By M.D. dela Cruz Tan
We know that no matter the dislike of alcohol, Ecstasy, Ketamine, Mescaline, GHB, Acid, Methamphetamine, Percocet, Oxycotin, Prosac, Riddlin, Valium, Soma, Cocaine, and many other drugs, they exist – and people, including GLBTQIAs, use them. And since no amount of scaring can dissuade them from doing so, anyway, Outrage Magazine is choosing a not-holier-than-thou stance – forget the name-calling, finger-pointing, blame-throwing, et cetera, and, simply, provide some enlightenment, relevant information, whatever, so that those who choose to use/not use actually know what they are getting themselves into.
GLBTQIA Filipinos Unite!
Call to Action for Filipino GLBTQIAs
By M.D. dela Cruz Tan
GLBTQIs are, by the way, largely inexistent in the Philippine law – except as a “state” of being, used as a ground to legally separate from a partner, i.e. the Family Code states that “a petition for legal separation may be filed only by the husband or the wife, as the case may be within five years from the time of the occurrence of… (f) lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent.” While we do what other sources of Pinoy pride do, e.g. pay (often more than our heterosexual counterparts') taxes, abide by the laws of the land, contribute to the growth of the nation, et cetera, GLBTQIAs remain second-class citizens. The time is now to change all that.
Armed and... Gay
A Closer Look at GLBTQIAs and the Military
By Mikee dela Cruz
In a recent move, the Armed Forces of the Philippines declared that now, they are open to accepting homosexuals into their ranks. That is, of course, as long as they do not act the way gays are stereotypically believed to act. Is this acceptance - or more of discrimination?
Group Games
Outrage Magazine takes a closer look at GLBTQIA groups helping unite the largely segregated community, thereby providing an avenue for GLBTQIA expression.
Couples on Parade
Can
GLBTQIAs form lasting relationships?
In Search of GLBTQIA Leaders
Outrage Magazine talks with GLBTQIA leaders advocating the community's issues.
Gay Entrepreneurship
By M.D. dela Cruz Tan
GLBTQIs are finding success in various industries.
Gay Celibacy, Anyone?
By Mikee dela Cruz
Here's what many (make that MOST) take as a (somewhat) fact: MSMs (including gays and bisexuals, and men who have sex with men but do not identify themselves as G or B) are sexually promiscuous. So much so that, for a while there, the spread of such sexually transmitted infections as HIV/AIDS was attributed to us. But, stresses Gayteens.about.com, “despite the association of gay people with sex, plenty of folks in the GLBT community choose not to have sex and instead be celibate." What does this mean? More importantly, can (or, for that matter, SHOULD) gays be celibates?
Straight Up
Ex/Ex-Ex-Gay in the Philippines
Closer look at the destructive movement.
In Search of the Pink Peso
Looking for the monetary power of GLBTQIA Filipinos.
Finding the Gay Pinoy
What is it exactly that makes the Pinoy gay?
Brian Shane Gorrell
The Accidental Advocate
In 2007, the Australian landscape designer Brian Shane Gorrell started a blog, The Talented Mr. DJ Montano, which spilled the beans – so to speak – on everything about the socialites and social climbers of Metro Manila, from Celine Lopez to Tim Yap to, yes, Delfin DJ Montano, whose relationship with Gorrell served as the impetus to the whole story. Fast forward two years later, and the site has registered well over 30 million (and counting) hits, making it one of the most popular in the Philippines. It is this number that Gorrell is now tapping as he has become an advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness.
RP HIV/AIDS Responses
Finding Ways. Still.
By Mikee dela Cruz
There are, according to the National AIDS Registry from the National Epidemiology Centre of the Department of Health, 3,589 reported cases of HIV infection as of end-December 2008. Nonetheless, a major source of concern is that, as of checking in 2008, “the annual newly reported HIV cases rose sharply from 200 in 2004 to 528 in 2008, and nearly tripled in 15 to 24 year-olds from 41 in 2007 to 110 in 2008,” states the UNICEF (UNICEF.org) in its summation of the HIV/AIDS profile of the Philippines. This is why knowing the very bodies taking charge in the fight against HIV and/or AIDS becomes important.
And Outrage Magazine does exactly this.
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