What does the LGBTQIA+ community need from our legislators?
The Philippines is already ramping up for the 2022 Presidential Elections, and many politicians will court the LGBTQIA+ community vote with promises of change. But how will the LGBTQIA+ vote matter? We ask members of the community about the results and concrete measures they need from politicians this coming 2022 elections.
Written by Ross Tugade and CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Jun 29, 2021 5:02:06 PM
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Greater institutional protection for the LGBTQIA+ community is a goal that cuts across the vast network of advocates and activists in the Philippines. It is borne out of a collective history of struggle and lived experiences of oppression and discrimination.
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THE Oblation at Dusk by Dr. Eloisa May Hernandez VMEMECONTEMPORARY.COM
The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) will convene a panel to discuss academic freedom and how law enforcers can protect it, according to the agency.
This was after the Philippine military unilaterally ended a deal with the University of the Philippines (UP) banning soldiers inside the state institution.
“The implementation of the Department of National Defense-UP accord was destined to be problematic,” CHEd Chairman J. Prospero E. de Vera III said in a statement on Thursday night. “The accord has no clear detailed operational details to implement the provisions of the agreement.”
PHOTO FROM VMEMECONTEMPORARY.COM
PHOTO FROM VMEMECONTEMPORARY.COM
ONE of the biggest areas of the metro, the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus, was rendered silent by the pandemic. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown closed schools and colleges, and forced students and their teachers to go online â which itself is another can of worms.
Dr. Eloisa May Hernandez, an Art History Professor at the universityâs Department of Art Studies, and UP Diliman resident, captured this silence through her iPhone camera during walks she took at the beginning of the lockdowns imposed almost a year ago. The photos are now in an online exhibit with vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery titled