Mexico City lawmakers recently approved the same-sex marriage bill, making Mexico City the first in Latin America to legalize gay marriage.

Walk with Pride project is set to join the Manila Pride Parade 2009. Walk with Pride aims to promote pride, empathy and understanding on an international level by highlighting the similarities and differences of LGBTQs across the globe through photography.

In celebration of World AIDS Day, our Words of the Gay this week will touch on AIDS. Learn what AIDA and getching means!

Reposted from rainbowrightsproject.org: Get to know the bisexuals and transgenders or B & T of LGBT. Plus find out why the rainbow flag has become the symbol for the LGBT community. These and more are coming your way on Rainbow Radio Pilipinas today, Saturday, 2:30-3:30 PM at DWBL 1242 kHz.

Join the LGBT community as we say hello to Rainbow Radio Pilipinas! See you at the launch tonight, 20 November 2009 at 8PM, BED Bar Malate.

Rainbow Radio Pilipinas (RRP), Manila’s first radio magazine show for LGBTs by LGBTs, kicks off on Friday! Show up at BED Bar Malate at 8 PM to show your support.

Hold your breath because lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs) in the Philippines are getting a big surprise from Rainbow Rights Project. Read on and find out.

After 10 years, Liverpool is finally holding its pride march for 2010. What may have triggered the revival of rainbow pride among locals is the series of gay-hate crimes in the past 18 months, and while the hate crimes are nothing but deplorable, this only proves the LGBTQ community’s resiliency and talent to turn things — even awful things — around despite all odds.

Pride season has begun! TFP announces details of the 2009 Manila Pride Parade. Show that you care for our community by daring to march with Pride in shimmering silver (this year’s theme color!). Remember, we dare, we care!

Love your own. Indeed we do, that’s why we compiled a list of LGBT-owned and LGBT-friendly businesses for us to support. Patronize them or at least pay their site a visit.

From Questioning Transphobia blog: The newly signed “Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act” expands the existing anti-hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. Is there hope of getting the same anti-hate crime law in the Philippines?

Same-sex couple in Scotland may get access to free fertility treatment in early 2010, following a legal complaint by a lesbian couple against National Health Services Greater Glasgow and Clyde after the latter denied the couple on the grounds that they did not fit the definition of an infertile couple.

After staging the country’s first gay pride march in 2003 with an estimated 500 participants, Taiwan is breaking records in Asia after successfully holding a gay pride march dubbed “Love Out Loud! The Power of Love Conquers Discrimination” with 25,000 reported participants last October 31, 2009, according to CarnalNation.com.

Get to know Task Force Pride (TFP), the official organizing network of the annual Philippine Pride March. Plus find ways on how you can participate or support Pride March Manila 2009.

Read the list and contribute! Lesbians go by a lot of names and different generations of lesbians identify with different names. Here are some of the names that are synonymous to the lesbian Filipina.