PinoyPride.org
Source of Pride…
Sana…
By Kiki Tan

PinoyPride.org has been in existence for as long as I can remember – and for as long as I can remember, too, it has been a source of pride.  Or at least it could have been…

GOOD

Among the pioneers that aimed to provide a voice for the Pinoy LGBT community in the early World Wide Web, PinoyPride.org was, for a while there, the gay site for the Pinoy gay, made by Pinoy gays.  In this alone, it somehow worked – information, after all, is only as good as its application in contexts, so localizing is all there is to it, really, and this site did that.

It did so, too, with a voice – PinoyPride.org actually has a stance, a position, for the community.  Of course, whether the position is the entire community’s is beside the point – after all, any position won’t be everybody’s.  The good thing is, even if not everybody agrees with the stance, it does not only give a voice from inside, it actually makes even those inside the community talk about the issue.

BAD

The unfortunate thing about PinoyPride.org is its immobility.  I honestly don’t know if it has been recently updated – and even if it has been, I most certainly can’t tell so.  This perspective is not helped, in any way, by the blog look of the site, so that: 1) You get the feel that whatever is written there is the singular opinion of the writer/s, not necessarily the community’s (at least not of many, not anymore) because you fail to hear varying opinions; and 2) Exactly because of the blog look, you’d expect for more frequent updates to be made.

WELL, WE TRY…