8:30 – 9:00am Assembly Time/Registration/Briefing
Quezon City Memorial Circle - East Avenue Entrance
LOOK FOR THE RAINBOW FLAG
9:00 – 9:45am March Around Quezon Memorial Circle
9:45 – 10:00am Congregate at Freedom Bell
10:00 – 11:00am PROGRAM PROPER
11:00 – 12:00nn Budol Solidarity Meal
On April 21, 2012 Filipino lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT), will join the Worldwide LGBT Civil Rights March(i) to
Demand for EQUAL RIGHTS and RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS of ALL PEOPLE Regardless of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)!
The Philippines LGBT Civil Rights March is a call to action to:
• Remind us of the need to address the grave human rights violations against LGBT Filipinos; that victims of these violations must be given justice and that perpetrators must be arrested and punished.
• Respect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all people regardless of SOGI by the passage of the Reproductive Health bill – House Bill 4244 and Senate bill 2865
• Safeguard the retention of SOGI provisions of Senate Bill 2814. The bill, “the Anti-Ethnic, Racial or Religious Discrimination and Profiling Act,” which aims to penalize all forms of discrimination, has passed third reading in the Senate and is close to being finalized in Congress. The LGBT community is gravely concerned that anti-LGBT forces led by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) will succeed in removing the SOGI provisions of SB 2814.
• Demand the inclusion of SOGI in the ASEAN Declaration of Human Rights, which is being finalized and will be presented in the ASEAN Plus Summit in November 2012 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
It is hoped that the April 21 Worldwide LGBT Civil Rights March will impress upon our legislators the urgent need to pass the anti-discrimination law to include the protection of LGBT rights. This will be helped greatly by a large show of numbers of the LGBT community and its supporters this coming Saturday.
It is time to make a stand for the civil and political rights if LGBT persons in the Philippines so April 21, 2012 will be a celebration of LGBT rights and a testament to our continued fight for equal rights.
ORGANIZING GROUPS:
LADLAD LGBT party-list ** Filipino Freethinkers (FF)
Amnesty International Philippines-LGBT Group (AIP)
Lesbian Activism Project (LeAP!), Inc., UP Alyansa,
Philippine LGBT Hate Crimes Watch, Outrage,
Queer Pagan Network (QPN), GayGeeks, IFTAS
The TLF Share Collective, UP Babaylan,
Rainbow Rights (R-Rights), Project, Inc.,
Metropolitan Community Church (MCC-QC), and with the support from the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC),
Likhaan Center for Women’s Health,
Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP) and Reproductive Health Alliance Network (RHAN)
Isabela LGBT Pride March https://www.facebook.com/
2012 Worldwide LGBT Civil Rights March - Bacolod
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WORLDWIDE LGBT CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH - CEBU
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The Worldwide LGBT Civil Rights March is part of the international movement called “Let’s Reach 1 Million People Campaign… It’s a start!” for equal rights for LGBT people, to build upon the growing momentum around the world in support of equal civil rights for all LGBT. Initiated by American author and advocate Joseph C. Knudson a few months ago, this grassroots movement will unite various LGBT activists, organizations, and all other allies on April 21, 2012 in a historic event that will project to the worldwide community the LGBT demand for FULL CIVIL RIGHTS NOW.
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