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Ang Ladlad Files for Party-list Accreditation

August 23rd, 2009

Ang Ladlad, the national organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Filipinos filed a petition to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for accreditation to run as Party-list in the 2010 national elections last August 17.

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Ang Ladlad was denied by the COMELEC in the past elections for allegedly not having enough representation all over the country to qualify as a marginalized sector of society.  Let’s hope the COMELEC becomes wiser this time.

Ang Ladlad’s Platforms:
1. Support the Anti-Discrimination Bill that gives LGBT Filipinos equal opportunities in employment and equal treatment in schools, hospitals, restaurants, hotels, entertainment centers, and government offices.
2. Re-filing of the bill to repeal the Anti-Vagrancy Law that some unscrupulous policemen use to extort bribes from gay men without ID cards;
3. Setting up of micro-finance and livelihood projects for poor and handicapped LGBT Filipinos;
4. Setting up of centers for Golden Gays, or old and abandoned LGBTs, as well as young ones driven out of their homes. The centers will also offer legal aid and counseling, as well as information about LGBT issues, HIV-AIDS, and reproductive health. These centers will be set up initially in the key cities/metropolitan areas of the Philippines — Baguio, National Capital Region, Cebu and Davao.

The platforms of Ang Ladlad are like laser beams — clear and focused only in one direction. Ang Ladlad aims to restore the pride and dignity of LGBT Filipinos as well as give lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders a chance to lead kinder and gentler lives.

Ang Ladlad is not fighting for special rights but equal rights for lesbians, gays, bisexuals,
transgenders in the Philippines. Let us end discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The only way to shape history is to make it. Be part of history.

*Baklang AJ is  proud member of ANG LADLAD.

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Ang Ladlad to Launch Nationwide Membership Campaign

April 22nd, 2009

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The core group of Ang Ladlad is finalizing its schedule for its membership campaign in the major cities of the Philippines. If you live in these cities and/or know people who are willing to help, please give your contact details.

Please send contact details to our Secretary, BEMZ BENEDITO, at her email: myinsidebemz@yahoo.com

The tentative list of cities to be visited include:
Baguio City
Olongapo City
Naga City
Cebu City
Iloilo City
Davao City

This is just the first swing of the membership campaign. More cities will be covered, funds permitting.

Let us spread the word that Ang Ladlad is committed to running — and winning — in the May 2010 elections for partylist organizations.

For more information visit the Ang Ladlad website

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Ang Ladlad Lit Nite

November 7th, 2008

Ang Ladlad invites everyone to attend the Ladlad Lit Nite on Monday, November 10 at 7:30 PM at Mag:Net Katiıpunan Avenue (beside Rustans).

You may read a work of your own or of somebody else as long as it has an LGBT Theme. You may read a poem, story, essay, or show your short film, dance or even sing!

The Ladlad Lit Nite is part of the celebration of Pride March 2008!

So come one, come all!  Invite your friends too!

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Ang Ladlad Welcomes Suspension of 2 Doctors, Nurse in Rectal Surgery Scandal

May 15th, 2008

Media Release

Ang Ladlad, the national organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Filipinos, welcomed the suspension by the Department of Health of two doctors and one nurse involved in the rectal surgery scandal at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC). Department of Health regional director Susana Madarieta imposed a three-month preventive suspension.

Danton Remoto, chairman of Ang Ladlad, said “This is only the beginning of the end for these callous and inhuman doctors and nurses who turned the operating room of the hospital into a circus. They not only stripped Danilo of his human dignity, but also stained the Philippine medical profession, which has already been besieged by a
series of scandals.”

However, Remoto also wants the nursing student who uploaded the video in You Tube barred by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) from taking the nursing licensure examinations. “He or she has no right to practice the profession of nursing, which is a caring profession. Moreover, the PRC should also look into the revocation of the licenses of the doctors concerned. We also wonder why only three people were suspended when the Central Visayas Ombudsman fact-finding investigation found out that seven doctors and five nurses must face administrative charges. I think they should all be suspended to give a lesson to all that we should not discriminate based on sexual orientation and class in society.” Danilo is a minimum-wage earner in a flower shop who had sexual relations with a male sex worker on the night of Dec. 31.

When he woke up, a perfume canister was already lodged in his rectum. He was operated on at the hospital two days later. The counsel for the suspended doctors are appealing their decision, saying that this deprives Cebu of medical service. “It does, factually. But do you really want to be served by people whose reputations have been stained by this scandal, which has dropped the surgical masks they wear and showed them for who they really are? How can you even expect competent and professional medical care from people like this?”

Ang Ladlad has offered to beef up the legal team of Danilo and has also offered professional therapy to the victim of the scandal.

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KNOW YOUR GAY RIGHTS!

May 13th, 2008

You’re in a bar and the police come in and announce a raid, what will you do?

On your way home late at night, police patrols stop you and charge you with vagrancy, how will you react?

After the movie house you went to has been suddenly raided, you’re brought to the police station and the cops start asking you for money, what should your response be?

 

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!

Dialogue with Lawyers of the Rainbow Rights Project

 

May 17, 2008, Saturday, 1-4 pm

Roofdeck, FBR Building

Katipunan Avenue

 

This public service is brought to you by Ang Ladlad, Rainbow Rights Project and Radar Pridewear

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ANG LADLAD STATEMENT ON THE CEBU RECTAL SURGERY VIDEO SCANDAL

April 18th, 2008

 

Ang Ladlad Slams Discrimination of Rectal-surgery Victim

Ang Ladlad, the national organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Filipinos, has slammed the doctors and nurses involved in the rectal operation of a gay patient that was later uploaded in YouTube.

“This is a violation of the patient-doctor confidentiality that is part of the Code of Ethics of a medical practitioner,” said Danton Remoto, chairman of Ang Ladlad and Associate Professor of English at Ateneo de Manila University. “What rubs salt on the patient’s dignity was the fact that the doctors and nurses were shown saying anti-gay statements while making fun of the sedated patient. In this case, it is not the patient but the doctors who are sick.”

The came stemmed from the rectal operation of “Jan-Jan,” a 39-year-old gay man who had sex in Cebu City on New Year’s Eve. He claimed he was drunk and his partner inserted a perfume canister in his rectum, which necessitated an operation on January 3. The operation was done at the government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center. He said that “I trusted them. And yet they ridiculed me. . . Was that something a professional would do? I can’t even walk on the streets without being laughed at by my neighbors. I want my ordeal to end. I hope it doesn’t happen to anyone else.”

“We laud the investigation being done by the hospital. However, we would like to stress that the victim was made to sign a piece of paper he did not read nor was it explained to him. There seems to be a pattern of deception here. They wanted to turn him and his case into an object of fun, not of scientific or medical study. Therefore, we are batting for the revocation of licenses of the medical people involved. They have just violated the confidentiality clause between doctor and patient, and also the patient’s right to privacy. How would they feel if they were the ones whose images are spreading around in the limitless world of cyberspace?”

Ang Ladlad will offer psychological counseling to the victim, as well as help his lawyer, Guiller Ceniza, pursue the case in court. “Doctors are sometimes considered like gods who have power over our lives. In this case, they did not only defame and discriminate against another person, but they also stained the very dignity of their profession. We will pursue this case all the way to the Professional Regulations Commission and the Civil Service Commission. These callous people deserve to be taught a lesson they will never forget,” Remoto concluded.

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