eh kasi bakla: The Love-Hate Relationship towards Gay Culture in the Philippines
In the Philippines, you can be part of the LGBTQ community and be a devoted Catholic but never a chance to experience same-sex marriage or just even a civil union. You can express your gender by wearing what you are comfortable with but people won’t acknowledge your gender identity. You can be gay, lesbian, or any other gender in schools, but you have to conform to what the school thinks is right regarding hair grooming and proper school uniform. You can be gay, but you cannot enjoy and freely make the streets your runway of rainbows. This is the reality that gay people experience in the Philippines: homosexuality is tolerated more than accepted.