Pushing the Advocacy Forward at the 2018 Equality Summit
‘Manindigan Para sa Karapatan:’ GALANG Marches for Equality
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a landmark document that proclaimed the inalienable right of all persons to dignity. This is without distinction to race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national…
Keep ReadingQUEZON CITY, Philippines – December 8, 2018 – GALANG Philippines marched in solidarity with allies, families, fellow rights advocates, and supportive organizations both from the government and civil society sector at the 2018 Quezon City Pride March in Tomas Morato,…
Keep ReadingTwenty-two (22) years ago, the first National Lesbian Rights Conference was held in Silang, Cavite. The theme back then was “Hearing Our Voices in Unity: Claiming Our Rights, Controlling Our Lives.” Here’s an excerpt from the statement made during that…
Keep ReadingA decade ago, GALANG Philippines was established by a group of lesbian friends who were either keenly observing or actively engaged in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activist communities in the Philippines. Today, as we turn 10, we’d…
Keep ReadingMARIKINA CITY, June 30, 2018 — GALANG Philippines, along with over 150 of its partner lesbians, bisexual women, and trans men (LBT) people’s organizations (LPOs) and their families and friends, marched at the 2018 Metro Manila Pride March in…
Keep Reading“In Stonewall’s Global Workplace Equality Index, broad legal zoning is used to group the differing challenges faced by organisations across their global operations. The Philippines is classified as a Zone 2 country, which means sexual acts between people of the…
Keep ReadingThe battle cry of almost every lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights advocate in the Philippines is to pass a law that would protect against discrimination and violence directed towards one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE). Even…
Keep ReadingOn March 17, 2018, GALANG, together with its partner lesbian, bisexual women, and trans men (LBT) people’s organizations (LPOs) and their families, attended a nationwide mobilization for the SOGIE Equality Bill at the People Power Monument in Epifanio Delos Santos…
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