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  1. exploring-challenges-and-problems-faced-by-lgbt-students-in-philippine

    of Philippines; ii) to explore main challenges and problems. The Philippines is considered as a gay-friendly country. However, it is reported that Filipino Lesbian, Gay, T ransgender and Bisexual ...

  2. From the bathroom to a national discussion of LGBTQ+ rights: a case of

    Despite the Philippines' progress in gender equality, contemporary evidence suggests that Filipinos continue to possess negative attitudes toward lesbian and gay individuals. Likewise, discrimination and violence toward bisexual, transgender, and queer Filipinos have been documented.

  3. PDF The Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in The

    Council on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in the Philippines. This report is largely based on unpublished interviews, grassroots research, media reports, the web, and records of the Philippine government and United Nations agencies. Overview

  4. "Just Let Us Be": Discrimination Against LGBT Students in the

    This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school. It details widespread bullying and harassment, discriminatory ...

  5. PDF How Discrimination Happens

    I. The Status of LGBT Filipinos in the Philippines 9 1.1. Background of the Study 9 1.2 Relevance of the Research 14 1.3. Objectives and Research Questions 15 1.4 Scope and Limitations 17 1.5 Organization of the Research Paper 18 II. Understanding Heteronormativity, and Employment

  6. Being LGBT in Asia: The Philippine Country Report

    English. Download. December 4, 2015. Being LGBT in Asia: the Philippines Country Report provides an overview of LGBT rights in the Philippines including the effects of laws, policies, culture and social attitudes, and religion, based on research, consultation and the National LGBT Community Dialogue. This overview is followed by an examination ...

  7. "We're All Human, Right?": Social Representations of LGBT

    Introduction The 2019 Senate hearings on the proposed anti-LGBT + discrimination legislation in the Philippines re-ignited the 20-year-long debate on LGBT + protection in a country both known as a "gay-friendly nation" (Kohut in Pew Research Center, 2013; Manalastas et al., 2017) and "the last bastion of conservative Catholicism in Asia" (Bloomer et al. in Policy Press, 2020). Prior ...

  8. Exploring challenges and problems faced by LGBT students in Philippines

    The Philippines is considered as a gay-friendly country. However, it is reported that Filipino Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual (LGBT) community, especially LGBT students are struggling with bullying and discrimination from families, communities and schools. This paper aims to explore the works conducted by the first Filipino student LGBT organization (UP Babaylan), major barriers ...

  9. LGBT psychology in the Philippines

    Abstract: This paper presents an account of the initial developments towards an LGBT psychology in the Philippines. We situate this on critical events leading to: (1) an official policy by the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) against anti-LGBT discrimination in 2011, the first in south-east Asia; and (2) the institutionalisation in 2014 of the PAP's LGBT Psychology Special ...

  10. Queer Identity and Gender-Related Rights in Post-Colonial Philippines

    The Philippines is at a critical historical point where LGBT identities and rights are being questioned, not in a manner of interrogation which aims to deconstr ... Michael, Queer Identity and Gender-Related Rights in Post-Colonial Philippines (November 17, 2019). Australian Journal of Asian Law, 2019, Vol 20 No 1, Article 19: 265-275 ...

  11. PDF Centrality of Religiosity among Select LGBTQs in the Philippines

    long been used to explain the persistence of bias towards those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer. This is presupposed as much among emerging economies—like the Philippines—as among those beyond Western European/North Amer-ican contexts. In order to lend a more robust evaluation of context, the United Nations

  12. Exploring challenges and problems faced by LGBT students in Philippines

    Philippine health research ethics board. National ethical guidelines for health and health- related research. Conde C. Philippine city passes law against LGBT discrimination, 2018. CNN. House approves anti-discrimination bill on 3rd and final reading, 2010. Tubeza PC. PH ranks among most gay-friendly in the world, 2013.

  13. [PDF] LGBT psychology in the Philippines

    This paper presents an account of the initial developments towards an LGBT psychology in the Philippines. We situate this on critical events leading to: (1) an official policy by the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) against anti-LGBT discrimination in 2011, the first in south-east Asia; and (2) the institutionalisation in 2014 of the PAP's LGBT Psychology Special Interest ...

  14. LGBT Vote PH: Research Report and Policy Recommendations, 2022

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Based on the LGBT Vote PH 2022 survey, fifty-one percent (51%) of the respondents say that they are 'very dissatisfied' with the government's policies and programs on Gender Diversity, Equity, and Diversity (D.E.I.). Respondents cited pressing issues that they have experienced and observed such as 'access to proper ...

  15. PDF Manalastas & Torre (Fil LGBT activism)

    activism is strategic collective action, i.e., it is intended to improve the circumstances of the. ingroup in a specific domain of life (e.g., in workplaces, in schools, or in the legislative sphere) or in society as a whole. As a specific form of collective action, social movements such as LGBT rights.

  16. Balangaw: Lived Experiences of LGBT Students in the Midst of ...

    Gloc-9's song "Sirena" has proved immensely popular and contentious in the Philippines, especially among the LGBT community, which is the song's primary subject matter. This song depicts the experiences of LGBT members starting from childhood up to adulthood by portraying an image of how LGBT people deal with their sexual preferences and how ...

  17. Social Acceptability of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender ...

    LGBTQ, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer, is an umbrella term for a group of people composed of different gen-der identities and sexual orientations aside from the male-female norm. This particular minority social group experiences marginalization and social exclusion that traverse seven (7) the-

  18. How Discrimination Happens Being LGBT and the Experience of

    This research aims to look into how discrimination happens in the access to employment, and in the labor market for the LGBT in the Philippines. ... The paper aims to show how heteronormativity, and gender hegemonies play a significant part in how discrimination happens, beyond the assumptions of sexual orientation as the basis for ...

  19. Introduction to the Special Issue: Challenges of LGBT research in the

    In a similar way, there is research on the homogenization of LGBT struggles due to the institutionalization and professionalization of LGBT organizations and mainstream activism. Parallel to this process of homogenization, a renewed activism has emerged around digital media, which are providing new opportunities to make the diversity of LGBT ...

  20. Psychological Association of the Philippines

    The Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) aligns itself with the global initiatives to remove the stigma of mental illness that has long been associated with diverse sexualities and to promote the wellbeing of LGBT people. Moreover, the PAP Code of Ethics (2010) is clear in its stance against discrimination.

  21. PDF Experiences of LGBT Children in the Philippines

    be expected, in light of research that speaks, seemingly in perpetua, of LGBT children's vulnerabilities.[1,2,3] To others, there is the shock of saying "children" and "LGBT" in the same breath: there is the gut response to attributing sexual feelings to children, that it is disruptive to nations and cultures, and so on.[4] But at their

  22. Queer Pop Asia-cfp

    We are writing to share the following Call for Paper for the special issue "Queer Pop Media in Global Asias" co-edited by Jamie J. Zhao and Alvin ... Japanese cross-gender cosplay practices, Singapore- and Philippine-based tomboy bands, Korean queer webtoons, Chinese danmei dramas and masculine women-dominated reality shows, and the queer ...