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.

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!

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.*

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.

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.

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.

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.