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• SOUTHEAST ASIA’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRY STILL HAS NO LAW AGAST LGBT DISCRIMATN

SOUTHEAST ASIA’S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRY STILL HAS NO LAW AGAST LGBT DISCRIMATN

Read more: A Year After Sgapore Decrimalized Gay Sex, Its LGBT Communy Turns Attentn to Fay While many ci across the untry have already stuted lol ordanc to make SOGIESC-based discrimatn illegal, Irish Inoceto, a Filipo LGBT activist and former employee of the Philippe Supreme Court, tells TIME that they have “no teeth at all” and that she has seen firsthand jt how overdue and glargly necsary such a natnwi law is. Meanwhile, another stunt at the same school who also intifi as a transgenr woman siarly reached out to Inoceto to tell her that the prcipal round up all the stunts her gra and clared that bakla (gay men) wh long hair mt cut or be barred om school. ) Read more: You’ve Probably Heard of the Red Sre, Here’s the History You Didn’t Learn About the Anti-Gay ‘Lavenr Sre’ After the broadst, the untry’s Commissn on Human Rights issued a statement exprsg ncern over the anchors’ remarks, addg that the narrative they ed “only serv to perpetuate the already disadvantageo plight of the LGBT who equently face stigma, discrimatn, and genr-based vlence our society.

Metro Manila (CNN Philipp) — Alv Jam Cariño, 25, had his most huiatg experience as a gay man about four years ago. Cariño’s experience pal parison to other sthg tal told by many other members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng (LGBTQ+) muny: among many other horrible stori are those of lbian uple btally attacked by teenagers on a b London, a gay uple publicly ned Indonia for havg sex, and a young gay pair the Uned Stat asslted for their sexualy. Metro Manila (CNN Philipp, November 9) — A lawmaker has filed a bill the Hoe of Reprentativ seekg to protect the rights of heterosexuals to exprs their views on homosexualy and to practice their relig beliefs.

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug 12 (PIA) -- Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) group here and the entire natn, will fally be protected om discrimatn through Senate Bill No. You’ve heard so many tim: “The Philipp is one of the most gay-iendly untri the world.

Acrdg to a 2013 survey tled The Global Divi on Homosexualy by Pew Rearch Center, our untry has a high public acceptance of homosexuals.

It ced that 73 percent of adult Filipos agreed that “homosexualy should be accepted by society. In fact, our untry ranked 95th the Spartac Gay Travel Inx 2019, which is meant “to rm travelers about the suatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people 197 untri and regns. ” This also sred each untry based on measur like trans genr rights, the existence of anti-gay laws, and same-sex marriage.

This is also spe claims that the Philipp is a gay-iendly untry. Although ’s not talked about a lot the Philipp, gay nversn therapy isn’t banned here. This is the practice of forcibly makg someone straight bee they perceive homosexualy as somethg that needs to be cured.

Rodrigo Duterte exprsed they were once gay but turned themselv straight for whatever reason.

READ MORE: Pri Month jt started and Duterte’s spewg homophobia already. This is a sign that we need to talk about the legaly of gay nversn here, pecially wh s harmful implitns to young LGBTQ+ people.

Yterday, Philippe Congrs approved a bill that protects the rights of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny.

Mela Habijan on Tuday told CNN Philipp' Newsroom Ngayon that the SOGIE Equaly Bill will protect all Filipos om discrimatn. In the Philipp, the groupg ‘Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT)’ clus a wi range of digeno terms wh var geographil and subcultural origs. “Bak puph ang Anti-Discrimatn Bill, o ang SOGIE Equaly Bill pero bak hdi gaanong magay tungkol sa marriage equaly?

“Ang paya ay pagmamahalan, pagtutulungan, walang pipilg genr, ” says gay father Edw Qusayas. It clus s fn of genr-based sexual harassment the utterance of “misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, and sexist slurs.