Albert Tan Magallanes, Jr. was first exposed to the LGBTQIA community through “clans” (i.e. informal organizations of men who have sex with men or MSM) in Las Piñas, where he helped helm the Las Piñas chapter of the Taguig Peppers Society. It was with this community-based organization that he said he noted the disparity of the services offered to those who have access to mainstream services in metropolitan areas, and those like them who are still at the fringes even of the LGBTQIA community. It is this, too, that he wants to help remedy by developing/implementing programs that could hep mainstream people like them.