Bemz Benedito, chair of Ang LADLAD, the national organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Filipinos, guested in Unang Hirit with Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Marianito Roque to talk about Saudi Arabia’s ban on gay and lesbian OFWs. (Read related story).

In a recent memorandum circulated to accredited recruitment agencies in the Philippines, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia explicitly instructed the companies to thoroughly screen work applicants to exclude lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBTs), or else they will be permanently discredited by the embassy.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Lambda Legal are working with Nepali government leaders as they explore how to include protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the country’s laws, following the Supreme Court ruling that directed Nepal’s Parliament to stop discrimination to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in 1997.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.