Rainbow People

"It's cliche, this saying that 'none of us is free until all of us is free’. But it remains valid. We have to be inclusive, otherwise, efforts won’t succeed but will only advance those who are not necessarily in need of them most.”

Mx DISNEY AGUILA

Executive Director, Bahaghari Center

"In LGBTQIA+ advocacy, often neglected are the intersections of identities. A woman who is experiencing violence may also be a lesbian, or be an Indigenous Person, or be a person with disability, or be someone living with HIV, or be a sex worker, and so on. Identities do not exist in a vacuum. And not seeing these layers of identities is detrimental to all developmental efforts.”

AARON MOISES C. BONETE

Executive Director, Bahaghari Center

"Blunt truth in the fight for LGBTQIA+ human rights: we need to start getting angry. For those who’ve suffered, who continue to suffer, 'civility' has become a tool to control them, so it worsens their situation. This prevents them from complaining, from speaking up. So yes, be angry. If it's the way to get us our human rights."

MICHAEL DAVID C. TAN, MDC

Editor in Chief, Outrage Magazine