UPLB Pride March: Coming Out for Equality!
July 19, 2012
3pm | HumSteps
University of the Philippines Los Banos
for more info, contact @09159890673
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Showing posts with label Pride. Show all posts
July 16, 2012
UPLB Pride March 2012
UPLB Pride March: Coming Out for Equality!
July 19, 2012
3pm | HumSteps
University of the Philippines Los Banos
for more info, contact @09159890673
April 20, 2012
WorldWide LGBT Civil Rights March - MANILA
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.
December 16, 2011
Angeles City Gay Pride
Angeles City Pride Parade: ProGay Philippines and the United Gay Power Movement invite LGBTs and our straight allies to join us in celebrating 2nd Grand Freedom Parade FLY WITH PRIDE on December 17, 2011 Saturday 3PM at Bayanihan Park in Balibago Angeles City! There will be a contest for Best Float and Best In Costume with exciting prizes.
Kaye Equality Francisco Candaza
Ed Oz
Dec. 17 bulletin: Hi merong two waves of commuters. Yung unang wave 1pm sana ang alis sa Victory Cubao para makahabol sa 3pm motorcade. The second wave ay 2pm ang alis para maka-arrive sa 4pm Parade sa Bayanihan park (assembly area). ...Kung may private vehicle kau, u might want to be part of the motorcade at the Nepo Quad. My cp is 0915.5558508, col na lang kau, baka wala ako load to text back :-) .... so yung sasama sa akin advance party, kita kits 12pm to 1pm sa Victory cubao!
December 7, 2011
Dumaguete Pride March Year 1
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BASIC INFORMATION:
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REGISTRATION AND ASSEMBLY: 3:00-3:45PM, 9 December 2011
PARADE START-OFF TIME: 4:00PM
ROUTE: Quezon Park -> Colon St. -> Real St. -> Silliman Ave. -> Perdices St. -> Quezon Park
MATERIALS TO BRING (optional):
-Groups are encouraged to bring materials on HIV/AIDS, LGBT Rights, and the like.
-Placards on HIV/AIDS awareness, LGBT Rights awareness (Please try to keep printed messages as 'love-filled' as possible. Love, after all, is the ultimate retaliation to hate and discrimination.)
* Please DO NOT bring RH Bill materials. As much as this is also our advocacy, this Parade is being funded by the City Government. We will organise another venue for RH Bill advocacy, should this be your advocacy too.
-Rainbow flags/flaglets
CLOTHING: From statement shirts to costumes with wings and scepters...it doesn't matter, really. Be loud and proud!
PARADE MARSHAL TO CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION: 09269626715 (Michael Victor Panuncillon)
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PARADE INFORMATION YOU SHOULD KNOW:
The Dumaguete Pride Parade is not a standalone parade. The City Health Office has allowed for a Pride Space in the City's annual World AIDS Day Awareness Walk. This has been negotiated with the City Health Office by Ladlad Negros Oriental Coordinator, Michael Panuncillon.
It is a wonderful start for Dumaguete's LGBTs to take to the streets and show WE ARE HERE AND WE WILL NEVER DISAPPEAR. Although the entire Parade is not exclusively ours, our visibility in the Parade will force the City Government and fellow Dumaguetenos to be confronted by our existence. Our visibility and our demands for equal rights and protection will hopefully surface the prejudice and discrimination we have all experienced. The Pride Parade will hopefully provide a venue for us to formally and informally negotiate Safe Spaces for us in the community and, perhaps, lead to negotiations on a City Ordinance on Anti-Discrimination based on SOGI.
Invite your straight allies (friends and families) to march with us on December 9! It takes courage to come out. It takes even greater courage to take our cause to the streets. We have lived with discrimination and prejudice in silence for too long. Courage is what it takes to start a revolution. Our first Pride Parade will be the start of bigger and grander Prides to come in Dumaguete.
Lesbian writer and activist Rita Mae Brown once declared in a speech, "No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who do not love anybody."
December 4, 2011
November 28, 2011
November 7, 2011
Pride of the Orient, the 17th Annual Pride March
Task Force Pride, a non-profit network of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) groups will organize the 17th Annual Pride March in Manila. The aim of the march is to gather different LGBT groups, allies and individuals in solidarity, as well as provide positive visibility to the community.
This year's theme, “Pride of the Orient”, recalls the community's achievements with regard to advancing LGBT human rights, such as... organizing the first pride march in Asia in 1994 and the formation of Ladlad party list, the only LGBT-oriented party list in the world, and extensive HIV/AIDS Awareness campaigns nationwide .
“Pride of the Orient” calls on LGBT Filipinos to reclaim these milestones and look forward to more victories they've yet to achieve.
For Organizations, please confirm in this link:
http://taskforcepride.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-confirmation-form-organizations.html%20
For Individuals, please confirm in this link:
http://taskforcepride.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-confirmation-form-individuals.html
Registration begins at 1:00 pm at Remedios Circle, Malate, Manila, and Pride March contingents that arrive early will be greeted by a brief program until 4:00 pm. The hosts will explain the event's concept and encourage contingents to come up with a cheer for the march.
The march will begin at 4:15 pm and will end by 5 pm. During this time, the second half of the program will commence. The program will feature LGBT performers as well as brief solidarity messages from prominent LGBT individuals.
The Parade Route is seen in the diagram below:
Please check the TFP page regularly for updates on the program line-up and the venue. Thanks, and see you all on December 3, 2011 at the Pride March!
For more information you can visit this FB Event Page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241089652610923
Visit the official website:
http://www.taskforcepride.blogspot.com/
email us at:
taskforcepride@gmail.com
or SMS us at 09163089903 (Globe), 09333049795 (Sun)
Yours with Pride,
Raffy Aquino
2011 Membership & Participation Head
Task Force Pride
Anti-gay pastor arrested for public masturbation asks gay community for forgiveness
I was browsing Yahoo News and saw this article. I can still remember those preachers who kept on scolding us during the Pride March that we were sinners and we should repent. Well, cast the first stone if you are not a sinner.
Hating LGBT people is a sin, and in fact, HATE is a deadly sin. :) Loving someone with all your heart is not a sin, it is a GIFT from God. It's just that, we love someone with the same gender as we do. And the social standards of morality based on religious beliefs and other personal prejudices are saying that it's wrong.
For this pastor, he's not living the way a preacher of the word of God should be. Same goes to those who are haters of the LGBT community. Why not spread love instead? Isn't that what God told us to do? The God who represents Love and eternal goodness?
Should we forgive him? Of course we should, that's what God told us to do. Because we won't be forgiven if we won't forgive as well, right? As the LGBT Community, we should know when to be humble enough to any detractors. As planned for the upcoming Pride March, I would rather offer bread to the haters instead of fighting back. The more you will struggle, the more resistance you shall have. This is not about a battle of social acceptance anymore, it's how we can influence the society and show them that we are humans as well, created equally in the eyes of God.
By Brett Michael Dykes | The Lookout – Tue, Mar 1, 2011
For years, New Orleans area residents have known self-proclaimed "Christian patriot" Grant Storms as a religious crusader who has tirelessly tried to rid the city's French Quarter of homosexual influence--specifically its "Southern Decadence" festival. The celebration, often called the "gay Mardi Gras," draws homosexuals from around the country each Labor Day weekend.
But the 53 year-old Storms has joined the ever-growing fraternity of evangelical moralists whose hypocrisy is exposed through an embarrassing sex scandal. And today he offered an olive branch to the gay community.
Read Complete Article HERE
(Photo: Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office/AP)
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/
