Michael David C. Tan, is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies) of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia; and Master of Development Communication from the University of the Philippines-Open University. He is the founder and current publisher/Editor in Chief of Outrage Magazine, the only LGBTQIA publication in the Philippines that was established in 2007.
Mick – who can photograph, do artworks with mixed media, write, shoot flicks, community organize, facilitate, lecture and conduct researches (with pioneering studies under his belt) – is the writer/author of Being LGBT in Asia: Philippines Country Report; journalistic stylebook for media coverage on the Philippines’ LGBTQI community; #PreventionNOTCondemnation, which looked at HIV-related efforts of member churches of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP); and Red Lives, a collection of HIV-related stories, published by Bahaghari Center.
Conversant in Filipino Sign Language (FSL), he received the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) in 2006 for Best Investigative Journalism; IREX fellowship in 2014; and the “Art that Matters for Literature” award from Amnesty International-Philippines in 2020.