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Gay love

Gay love

First, a confession: I am no expert in gay love and relationship. If I am going to have any contribution on the issue, it would stem from the experiences of my friends and not my own past romantic relationships, which were as successful as the anti-premarital sex campaign of Ateneo, La Salle and UST combined. … Continue reading »

Abstention means injustice

The good news first: the UN decided to restore sexual orientation in the text of the resolution on extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary killings. An overwhelming number of States pushed to correct the grave error against human rights that took place a month ago, thus highlighting that inhuman abuses are committed against certain individuals because of … Continue reading »

An appeal to President Noy: Murder is murder

This Tuesday, December 21, 2010, the UN General Assembly will vote on a proposal to protect lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders from extrajudicial killings and other unlawful executions. The vote will specifically be on the restoration of sexual orientation in the text of the Resolution on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions. The resolution had always … Continue reading »

Four out of five

When health experts warned that the face of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines is changing, I didn’t expect that it’ll be all too familiar. They said that it is on the rise, that it doubled from 2007 to 2009, that most of the new cases have been acquired through homosexual and bisexual contact, and that the … Continue reading »