Ivan Prizefighter a.k.a. Bruce Portugal Amoroto

Dear friends and colleagues,

Rainbow greetings from Manila!

On behalf of Philippine Forum on Sports, Culture, Sexuality and Human Rights (TEAM PILIPINAS), I would like to invite you all, especially your Filipino friends, to support this humble campaign we created online over at Facebook. Realizing that the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Philippines to the United Nations has not expressed explicit support nor signed any statements that recognize, promote and protect the equal human ri… Continue

ACTION PLAN
“Workers Out!”- Make a Difference

In the spirit of the two declarations adopted during the previous Workers Out Conferences held in Amsterdam in 1998 and in Sydney in 2002 as well as the one carried at the International LGBT Forum of EI-PSI in 2004 and the goals… Continue

April 14, 2009

Dear friends,

Philippine Forum on Sports, Culture, Sexuality and Human Rights (TEAM PILIPINAS) invites you to be part of the Manila Diversity & Equality We… Continue

Everyone’s invited to support May 17 International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Homophobia is a negative attitude or feeling, a discomfort or an aversion towards gays and lesbians or towards homosexuality in general. It is also the rejection of gay and lesbian people or people considered as such, and of all things associated with them, such as gender nonconformity. Both on a conscious or sub-conscious level, homophobia surfaces in various ways and can even be internalis… Continue

a reply to a yahoogroup message

Dear all,

Yes, it’s true that the Stonewall Riots–the event that marked the birth of the gay rights movement in the US and in the world–happened on June 28, 1969 and in the following year was commemorated by marches in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The marches however were initially called either “Gay Freedom March” or “Gay Liberation March” and not what we now know as “Pride March”. It was only in the 80’s with a shift in the gay mov… Continue