"What do you attribute your Lesbianism to?" "Luck"
When life gets you down, just remember: Us queers are better off than everyone, no matter what they say.
Nothing can beat knowing what you and having the courage to go after it. Lesbian lady luck will always be on our side.
Cheers!
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I’ve realized something. I’m not lesbian anymore.
I’ve never had a problem with labels until I realized that I was not comfortable with the term “lesbian” anymore.
It suddenly feels constricting. Don’t get me wrong – I’m definitely not going straight anymore. However, being “lesbian” in the essence of the word isn’t comforting anymore.
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As posted by Anne Lim
As we were savoring the last few hours of the work-free holiday season (in typical NGO fashion, i tuned out of work mode after december 19th as best as i could), Lala and i saw this poster (see photos) in at least 2 street posts in Katipunan Avenue corner Santolan.
This poster was definitely a rude welcome to 2010. Nothing jerks one from vacation mode as quickly as a poster that has the words “lesbian”, “gay”, “satan”, and “hell” all in one sentence and all within a stone’s throw away from the house i grew up in.
A ridiculous gay hate poster on a wall
Like the haters during the pride march, this poster must energize us and remind us that we have our work cut out for us in the months to come. Bigotry and religious fundamentalisms were alive and kicking even during the season of giving. To fellow believers in and advocates of human rights, let us stay focused and relentless in working for LGBT rights. The haters are getting bolder and ever closer to home.
I am certainly no satan worshipper! And please pray for me for other things… like I win the lottery so I can use all my money to stop gay hate crimes. GEEZ!
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Lesfriendly.com news:
November 13, 2009
The facts
In a decision made by the Philippines’ Commission on Elections, the bid for the Philippines’ LGBT party Ang Ladlad to run for a Congress seat for the upcoming 2010 elections was rejected due to grounds of “immorality as stated by the Koran and the Bible”, and as “being a threat to the youth”.
In the resolution, COMELEC and its commissioners cited passages from the Bible – Romans 1:26-27 – and the Koran to illustrate their point.
Romans 1:26-27 reads: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”
Furthermore, the petition stated that
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I have not been able to post anything for almost a month, and with that I apologize to the loyal readers of this blog.
Lately, I’ve literally run out of things lesbian to talk about. There have been many things going on.
Like the recent tragedy that befell our family a week ago when typhoon Ondoy (international name Ketsana). The whole Philippines was victimized by a raging typhoon that dumped a week’s worth of rain. If you haven’t heard about it, or for those who are not tired of it yet, the gist of the calamity can be found here:
The floodwater reached the roof of our house and we’ve done nothing but clean and wash everything for the past week. I personally have blow dried photos – only about 10% of my childhood album was recoverable.
With the tragedy that has fallen our country, and many will be mad at me for this thought, but I actually got ashamed that all these years I have been doing nothing but gripe about gay and lesbian rights, devoting thousands of man hours for it, when so many people in our country don’t even have food and shelter.
I’m greatly reconsidering moving my advocacy priority into a greener and more sustainable area – that of saving the earth.
Should lesbiand and gays be refocusing on the green movement?
Climate change has such a big impact on everyone, straight and gay people alike, that if we don’t all fight for it, then there would be no lesbians on earth to even have the basic of rights.
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Have you ever had the experience where you were such in a tight lesbian spot, you had to defend yourself?
No, I’m not talking about *that* spot. I’m talking about dangerous and abuse situations we lesbians could be in. Ironically, these dangerous situations are not from our heterosexual counterparts but from us lesbians ourselves.
Lesbian abuse. Sadly, it does exist. It is an invisible aspect of of our lesbian movement we wish to turn away from. Sadly, it does happen, although maybe not at a rate that our heterosexual counterparts have, but it exists.
A documentary called She Stole My Voice talks about lesbian rape, and it is an eye opener. When I first watch it, I didn’t want heterosexuals to see it. I was afraid they would think less of us. But then I realized that it is a reality, and covering it up would be a disservice to the same rights we are fighting for.
She Stole My Voice: Lesbian abuse documentary
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I was stuck in a conversation with somebody I didn’t know. Bisexuals came up, and because of the few rounds of beer I’ve downed I couldn’t help but voicing out my opinion.
An opinion that reeked of discrimination, no matter how hard I tried to mask it with fluffy words.
This is nothing new. Somebody asked me this question several weeks ago: Why do lesbians hate bisexuals?
I couldn’t really answer. Technically, lesbians don’t hate bisexuals – we’re part of the LGBT acronym, all lumped together in one speck of society, aren’t we? I guess the right word is misunderstanding. Lesbians don’t understand bisexuals.
I personally have this ridiculous theory that there is really no bisexual person – like you can’t like girls and guys at the same time. You can like girls for five minutes (making you a lesbian), and then guys the next (making you a hasbian).
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Lesbian Bonnie Perry is now a bishop!
Whoops, did I just speak too soon?
The lesbian (and out) bishop Rev. Bonnie Perry is actually just a candidate out of three. Whoops.
August 1, 2009, three candidates for the position of the ninth diocesan bishop: the Rev. Mariann Budde, the Rev. Bonnie Perry and Rev. Brian Prior.
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I mentioned in a previous post that I was excited to go to Baguio for the Pride March. Well, I did, and though GF and I drove for a total of 8 hours each, it was a great trip with the greatest lesbian friends.
It was nice marching with people who understood you and who fights for the same rights – rights that most ordinary people take for granted.
Here is a collection of the Top 20 best photos I’ve collected from different friends as we attended the march:
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I shall again be marching with pride next week, I can’t contain my excitement!!!
We met with friends traveling 4 hours just to participate in the 2009 Baguio Pride March (we will be in a convoy of 3 vans) and its been decided that we are wearing rainbow feather boas with black shirts underneath. How cool is that???
Anyway, just to let you know what’s going to be downe that week, here are some details:
Celebrate 15 years of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender PRIDE in the Philippines, join the anniversary Pride Parade in Baguio City.
Come together on June 28, 2009 – meeting place at the Session Road @ 8:00 a.m. – supported by Metropolitan Community Churches in the Philippines and Progay Philippines. Please bring your rainbow flags and your straight family member.
The whole event will be from June 22-28, 2009.
Activities will be Pride parade, sports festival, Pride LGBT Mass and Film festival.
There’s also an article in Fridae.com about this 2009 Baguio Pride march marking the anniversary of the very first pride march in asia. You can view the pride march article on fridae.
I will be posting fabulous photos when we get back. Wish me luck!
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