Bakla Ako, May Reklamo?

UPDATE: VOTING HAS BEEN CANCELED TODAY, APRIL 16, 2008 DUE TO A TEEN HOUSEMATE’S VOLUNTARY EXIT.

It’s that time of the season again! In our tradition of Save the Hottie, Save the World campaigns on the Pinoy Big Brother show on ABS-CBN, we are once again calling on everyone to save another hottie. At one point or another, we have saved Kian Kazemi, Victor Basa, Jon Mullaly aka Jon Avila, and Will Devaughn.

The second set of nominees for the ongoing season, Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition Plus, includes hot boy Kevin Garcia Flood — the Spanish Stallion. It is the first time in the history of the Philippine franchise of Endemol’s Big Brother series that a housemate was nominated with 16 votes!

I believe it is a matter of cultural differences Read the rest of this entry »

This post is Part 2 of a series of entries about my hiking trip to Mt Daguldol. (Part 1 here Part 2 here)

Since I was inspired by Jayvee’s comics-type entry about our Mt Daguldol Adventure,  I decided to continue my story in photos (Gaya-gaya kase inggitera!).  I will no longer bore you with all the teeny details of the trip.

After the Fasyon shoot, we started moving up again. The trail got more difficult as we moved closer to the top, so I decided to distract myself by blabbing on about any topic I could think of. I’m not sure if I was just making myself believe that it worked, but talking while walking sure did give me the drive to get to the top.

Mother Nature must have really wanted us to experience all of its elements so she decided to pour us with rains. My water-resistant jacket helped me fight the cold. But that alone did not save me.

At around 4:00 PM, we finally arrived at the summit, Read the rest of this entry »

What a beautiful way to start the week! I feel like I won a title in a beauty pageant! Lol. This is mayjuh!

Check out today’s issue of Manila Bulletin (Vol. 424 No. 14 Monday, April 14, 2008). Go to the Blog-O-Rama column (page D5) of the Technews section, and this is what you will see:

Thanks to Annalyn Jusay (she’s an AJ too!) for the opportunity to get interviewed!

For those who stumbled upon that write-up in Manila Bulletin and ended up here, welcome to my humble abode.
For the people I knew back when I wasn’t out yet, yes, I’m gay (and what better way to come out than on a national broadsheet eh?)
To all the girls I’ve loved before, Bakla Ako, May Reklamo?
To all the guys I’ve loved before, hello (I changed my mobile number already)!
To my friends from the blogosphere, maraming salamat sa inyong suporta!
To all of you, dear readers (all four of you), Thank you!

To my family… Let me channel my inner Janina San Miguel… My Family… You are the most important persons in my life! Thank you!

*postcript: in 2006, my personal blog on Livejournal also got featured on the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Click here to read.

**Click here to support Baklang AJ’s Quest to achieve his goals using The Secret! Positive thoughts (and prayers?) towards the achievement of his goals in the soonest possible time are appreciated. Thank you all for helping AJ! You too can achieve your dreams!

In January, we posted about IN THE MOMENT, an online web series that follows the lives of a group of gay guys living in the same apartment complex in West Hollywood, California. Like most of us, they’re faced with a huge range of decisions about sex, and the decisions they make impact their lives and the lives of people around them. In the Moment is a the ground-breaking HIV prevention campaign from weholife.org

In the past two months, we have been visiting the site on an everyday basis (well, almost) just to check if the next episode is already out. And today’s our lucky day! They actually have opened a NING account (just like ours) to host their videos and accommodate the forums and discussions.

Episode 2 is titled Disconnected. (Episode 1 and Character bios here.)

Episode Highlights: Read the rest of this entry »

Bed, one of the country’s premiere gay clubs is celebrating its 5th Anniversary from April 10 to April 12!

Congratulations on your 5th year! So come one, come all and celebrate!

Party Schedule and Details after the jump.

(Note: This is not a paid advertisement nor was this a request from any person affiliated with Bed. We are posting this because we love Bed! Baklang AJ is a Bed lover. Whenever he’s there, he Drinks, Dances, and get even more drunk!)

Jump!

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A four-second video of a guy jerking off is currently doing the rounds of emails, blogs, and MMS. Some allege that the guy wanking in the video is model-turned-PBB-Housemate-turned-actor-slash-model Victor Basa. Some claim that this is the newest scandal that has hit this young star rumored to be gay.

The video is showing a muscular (and really hot) guy sans clothing, right knee raised a little close to the camera, right hand playing with his member, against a backdrop of a wooden closet and an indoor plant.

While the guy in the video closely resembles the hot young Victor,

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When I was a young boy, I was so scared of trannies. I don’t know why but I really was. However, over the years, I have learned to understand them in the same why that I understand my sexuality. And now, I don’t just understand them, I appreciate them and am proud of them.

One of the reasons why I’m proud of them is gay beauty pageants. It is quite sad that many people automatically think of question and answer boo-boos whenever the term “gay beauty pageant” is mentioned. However, what I’ve noticed is that our transsexual and/transvestite sistahs who join beauty pageants are getting more and more intelligent. All the more reason to be proud of the T in LGBT!

Photo courtesy of Jay Patao through the OPMB Forums

George, one of our readers from England, asked us if we were gonna cover the Miss Gay Philippines 2008 pageant. Ironically, I did not anything about the pageant had George not sent me an email about it. So I did some research online but most of the search results pointed to websites of gay beauty pageant boo-boos.

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Whenever I get invited by friends for a weekend getaway to Puerto Galera, I never fail to decline. I don’t know why but Galera, or Gaylera as many would put it, is just not that appealing to me. Until two weekends ago when I decided to give Galera a chance and joined my friends for a drinking weekend. I did not feel like swimming in Galera’s waters so I said that I was just doing an overnight stay. Besides, I had other things to attend to that Sunday. The first and only time I’ve been to Galera (prior to this trip) was in 2005. That trip was, for me, a case of bad things happening to good gay people like me. Charot! The banca we were riding on the way to Galera from Batangas pier stopped in the middle of the sea due to some engine problems. The accommodations were really pathetic. My body was non-cooperative by striking me with fever and extreme headaches. Everywhere I went to dine, it took at least an hour to have my food served. It was chaos. That probably was the reason why I never liked Galera. Until that trip two weeks ago.

I have heard so much about Puerto Galera being the gay mecca of sorts Read the rest of this entry »