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A Commitment to Equality: Babaylanes Goes to Olongapo City
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Babaylanes, led by its Former President Mader Perci Vilar Cendana, facilitated a SOGIESC Forum & Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Consultation for the City of Olongapo last 29 November 2022 at the Subic Bay Travelers Hotel. In attendance are members of the Gay Association and People’s Organization (GAPO). During her Keynote Message, Councilor…
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Babaylanes Attends F2BM Kick Off at Legazpi, Albay
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To formally commence the Communities of Actions (CoA) Project for 2023, Gayon Inc. gathered the CoA Members of Free to Be Me for a kick-off event at Legazpi City, Albay last November 14-15, 2022. As one of the three implementing partners of Free to Be Me, Gayon Inc. presided over…
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Maadong Pag Abot Dili sa Odiongan! Babaylanes Goes to Romblon
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Maadong Pag Abot Dili sa Odiongan! (Welcome to Odiongan!) Romblon Pride and the Odiongan LGU warmly received the Babaylanes team in the municipality of Odiongan, Romblon last October 14, 2022. This partnership became possible because of the Odionganons desire to have a more equal and inclusive municipality. Thus, Babaylanes conducted…
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Wrapping Up: Hangouts with BEF Fellows
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That’s a wrap! The Hangouts with our BEF Fellows are officially over. Last July, the Hangout session 3 was used to talk about the initial batch project ideas of our fellows. Here, our Executive Director Jap Ignacio answered the fellows’ concerns about their incoming batch project implementation. The Babaylanes staff…
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BEF Catch-Up: Community Organizing and Lobbying
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The BEF Discourse & Discussion (D&D) sessions 7 and 8 are now done. This marks the end of the D&D sessions for the BEF 2022 curriculum. Last July, the BEF D&D on Community Organizing was conducted with Maroz Ramos from GALANG Philippines. Our Mentor discussed GALANG’s experiences and tips in…
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Dayon Kam sa Catarman! Babaylanes Goes to Northern Samar
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Dayon Kam sa Catarman! (Welcome to Catarman!) Babaylanes went to Catarman, Northern Samar to visit Glamourosa and hold an organizational development workshop last July 18-20, 2022. This 3-day workshop is the roll-out of the second module for the Building Rainbow Communities project. On the first day, we had an introductory…
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BEF Catch-Up: LGBTQI Issues and Protection and Project Management
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With two more sessions done, we are almost nearing the end of our discourse and discussion series! Last June 11, 2022, we had our 6th session on LGBTQI Issues and Protection. We were joined by our mentor Atty. Claire De Leon, the former secretary general of the Lagablab LGBT Network.…
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Babaylanes Launches Online LGBTQI Resource Hub — Balangaw.ph
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Babaylanes Inc. recently launched balangaw.ph – your new one-stop resource hub for research and existing data on SOGIESC education and LGBTQI rights information, as well as updates on the SOGIESC Equality Bill/Anti-Discrimination Bill. Currently featured on the website is “Babaylanes in Pride History”, an exhibit on the activism of the…
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HIV and AIDS Workshop with BRC Orgs
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The roll-out of the first module for the Building Rainbow Communities project continues! Last May 27, 2022, both Glamourosa and the Mariveles Rainbow Alliance joined the workshop for Module 1: HIV and AIDS. In this session, common STIs, HIV, and AIDS were discussed along with how these can be transmitted…
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2022 National LGBTQI Students Network Conference
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Iba’t iba man ang pinanggalingan, Iba-iba man ang pananalita, Ngunit ito’y hindi naging hadlang Sa pagkakaisa’y napunan ang kulang. Eji Quiem of University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP) Balangaw on his experience participating in the 2022 National LGBTQI Students Network Conference Fifteen (15) LGBTQI student organizations attended…
