For Open Table MCC:
Community Connect (online via Zoom) - June 27, 7:30PM - topic: "Kwentuhang Coming Out"
Registration link: https://opentablemcc.ph/cconnect

Promote ko lang ulit that GALANG will also have a contingent, consisting of around 300 LBQTs, on June 22, 2024. If you're interested to join us sa march, you may follow our social media accounts: Facebook, Instagram, & LinkedIn: @galangphilippines | X: @GALANG_phils for further announcements! :) See you sa June 22 at sa mga darating pang Pride ganaps! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Mapagpalayang gabi sa ating lahat! Thank you, MJ and Rappler for the invite!❤️

Tama!! By the way, if you want to read updates and stories related to the community, check out our stories here: https://www.rappler.com/topic/lgbtq/

To all queer people who would like to reconcile their Christian Faith, with their authentic Identities, we are a Queer DIY Church that provides a safe space to worship! Join us every 4PM at 1604, Wilshire Annapolis Plaza, Annapolis Street, Greenhills, San Juan City. (Resuming in July!)
https://www.facebook.com/opentablemccph

For Metro Manila Pride, may dress to express event kami sa Makati!!! RESBAKLAAN in Commune from 7 PM to 12 MN sa June 22!https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UZ0E2h_lo/?igsh=OWViamE1cjlqNXk=

Happy to hold this convo with everyone!! So lumagpas na tayo ng 7 pm hahahaha. Pero maraming salamat sa oras and energy na pag-usapan ang topic natin today

Sa mga naghahanap also ng mga upcoming Pride events, check this out: https://www.rappler.com/moveph/list-events-activities-pride-month-philippines-2024/ :))

Students and faculty from De La Salle University Manila took part in the Animo Pride Fun Run this morning held at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila

Thank you for these photos, @Kenosis Yap. Welcome to the gender equality chat room!

Hello, mga mahal. Samahan niyo po kami sa isang makabuluhang diskurso tungkol sa queer spaces mamayang alas singko ng hapon sa Medium Rare for Two YouTube channel. Narito po ang link: https://mediumrare.walphs.com/ep3

Maraming salamat! 🌈

Good morning! Here are some photos from the first ever drag concert held in De La Salle University last night!

Good morning! Quezon City students and residents who weren’t able to march in their respective graduation ceremonies with their preferred gender expression are participating in an LGU-organized ceremony called “Graduation Rights” this morning here at QC Memorial Circle. Here, they’re free to march in whatever expression they wish 🌈

Kaladkaren is here as the host and VIP guest for the first “Graduation Rights” event.

Some LGBTQ+ graduates in the event rush to the QCX Garden as the program begins.

Prettiest grad I’ve seen!

Here’s an interesting bit, there’s a interpreter for deaf graduates, parents, and guardians who are attending the event.

Here’s some context: DepEd has had an order since 2017 directing schools to respect SOGIE and prevent discrimination. However, LGBTQ+ students, especially trans kids, have long been reporting not being allowed to march unless they conformed to the expression of the sex they were assigned at birth. For example, trans woman students have been asked to cut their hair or wear male uniforms if they wanted to participate in their school’s graduation ceremony.

Here’s how the program will go for today’s Graduation Rights.

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte hopes the event will make up for graduates’ wound by the system in their schools excluding them from graduation due to their gender identity and expression.

Kaladkaren delivers her commencement speech to the “rainbow graduates” and shares her story on how she had to graduate in UP wearing a barong.

Rainbow graduates get to shake hands with Belmonte, Kaladkaren, and other city officials as part of their march.

A total of 394 graduates marched in today’s Graduation Rights program. According to the GAD, more than 500 LGBTQ+ people expressed interest for the event.

Good morning mga mahal can we share some photos of Pride March event here? Thanks.

Hi @maikel! Oo naman, share photos and updates of Pride marches in your area here! 🏳️‍🌈

Salamat po Happy Pride mga Mahal ❤️

Okay naman po here at Lanao del sur, Happy Pride din po. 😊💜🌈

Happy Pride! Here’s the scenes from this year’s Quezon City Pride festival of this afternoon.

It’s very hot right now and people are starting to gather at the Quezon Memorial Circle. Please remember to bring water and umbrellas. Ingat kayo!

Hello everyone, happy Pride!! 🌈 Sino'ng Team Bahay for this year's Pride march? Bookmark and refresh this page to watch Rappler's livestream later: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/metro-manila/video-love-laban-everyone-pride-festival-quezon-city-2024/

Update on field from @Russell Ku: A merchant is selling headbands with faces of BINI members ahead of the group’s performance at the #LoveLaban2Everyone Pride Night later.

Anyone else in the Quezon Memorial Circle today? Feel free to share your photos with us! 🫶

From @Russell Ku: Bataan 1st District Representative Geraldine Roman, the Philippines’ first transgender person to be elected in Congress, calls out people who use religion to oppose the SOGIE equality bill. #LoveLaban2Everyone https://twitter.com/russellchengku/status/1804390522544353499

Update from @Russell Ku: Quezon City Police Department says that as of 2:30 pm, 8,500 people are attending this year’s Pride march – 7,500 in Quezon Memorial Circle and 1,000 in Matalino Street.

As of 2:45 pm, total crowd estimate in Quezon Memorial Circle, Tomas Morato, and Matalino Street is at 13,000, according to the Quezon City Police Department.

Hello! Here are some scenes from this year’s Pride march. The turnout for the march was overwhelming that we couldn’t post these immediately.

Livestream here!

Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies gather in Quezon City on Saturday afternoon, June 22, for the “Love Laban 2 Everyone” Pride PH Festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI51SUj_KkU

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBXfbd-2wtY

Sharing with some photos of Pride March here at QC for Love Laban 2 Everyone Pride PH Festival 2024.

Feel free to share this on our page

As of 7:15 pm, QCPD says 60,000 people are at the Quezon Memorial Circle following heavy rain during the start of the QC Pride night.

Good evening! Metro Manila Pride holds “Resbaklaan”, a dress to express and community hangout/ Pride Party at Commune in Poblacion, Makati. Program includes performances, open mic, free tarot reading, and games until 12 am. 🏳️‍🌈

Midway into the Resbaklaan program, MMPride announces their upcoming activities for the Pride Month.

They will be joining UP Diliman Pride on June 28 for the march and Pride concert.

Open Table MCC reenacted the photo from the 30th Anniversary of the 1st #PrideMarch in the Philippines held in Quezon City, led by Pro-Gay and MCC Manila + more parallels in photos.

You are INVITED! Online gathering for LGBT Christians 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ - Community Connect

June 27 (Thursday), at 7:30PM, via Zoom.

TOPIC: "Kwentuhang Coming Out"

You may register here: https://opentablemcc.ph/cconnect

Good morning! Remember QC's "right to care" card?

We asked those who were in charge of the creation and implementation of the program on how the card is doing one year after its launch. One year after QC successfully launched the program, bringing the “right to care” card to as many residents as possible and getting other cities to adopt it have become a challenge.

Read more here: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/metro-manila/next-steps-right-care-card-quezon-city/

Hello, mga mahal!

Hello, @AJ | Metro Manila Pride! How's the situation in UP Pride. Would you have photos to share with us?

Good morning, everyone @here! What can we do to create safe spaces on the internet? Join our discussion later at 1 pm in the 📖 #FactsFirstPH chat room! Kitakits!

QUESTION:
Gaano kayo apektado bilang LGBTIQ persons sa nangyayari sa Senado tungkol kay Alice Guo at POGO?
Care nyo ba or deadma lang?

THE QUEENS ARE SERVED! 👑

A new set of queens will compete to become the Philippines’ next drag superstar in season 3 of #DragRacePH, with new episodes premiering on August 7. Which queens are you hoping to come out on top?

Tell us about your faves in the 🌟 pop-culture chat room.