We are taking the lessons up a notch as we learn not two but 10 gays words. Yes, 10. Let’s count from one to 10.

Join UP College of Law, Libertas, UP Center for Women’s Studies and Rainbow Rights Project as they bring together the experts on identity politics and party list law, to shed light on the state of party list system and the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (Comelec) decision on Ang Ladlad’s application and other petitions on December 8, Tuesday, 9 AM at the Malcolm Hall Theater, College of Law, University of the Philippines-Diliman.

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

Join the march with Ang Ladlad and show the country that LGBTs are not immoral as and are not a threat to the youth as the Comelec’s Second Division falsely think. Join us fight for our LGBT rights!

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.

Confused? We’ll help you brush up on gay lingo because beginning today, we will teach you words used by LGBTs across the world. *This week’s words of the gay – ZIR and ZIE.*

OPINION – Ang Ladlad, the Philippine LGBT party list seeking a congressional seat in the upcoming May 2010 national elections, was denied accreditation by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for the May 2010 elections, on the grounds of “immorality (as per Quran and the Bible)” and “threat to the youth.” When will Filipino LGBTs have a voice in the legislation?

No one should be allowed to get married. Ever. But we are fighting for equity and that includes the bad as well as… the badder. This here list of sarcastic arguments against gay marriage has been circulating on the net in one form or other. Feel free to add more points.

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.

A primer on HIV and AIDS. Learn about HIV, how it is transmitted and how to prevent getting the virus.

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.