Strengthen Our Ranks!
Fight for Our Rights!
Link Arms for Freedom and Democracy!

The Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (Pro-Gay) marks the 29^th Anniversary of Stonewall Uprising with calls for strengthening its ranks and vigorously fights for gay rights.

At the Stonewall Inn, a lowly bar in New York, where gay men & women barricaded themselves and showed unity, assertion, and struggle against police brutality of the 60s. This signals the start of the militant and liberative gay movement around the world.

Gays in the Philippines commemorate this historic day of 26^th of June as the start of militant battlecry for an end to sexual discrimination, for equality, and total emancipation gay men and women.

We reflect on the status of gay men by calling for an end to discrimination of one’s sexual orientation. We call for a halt on discrimination on gay job-seekers and full economic guarantees of protection for gay self-employed like entertainers, & beauticians in parlors and saloons. 

We seek for the safety and protection of gay overseas contract workers (OCWs) who fall to venal recruiters and gay-unfriendly cultures of other countries. We seek for their repatriation, if jobs are wrecked, by providing them appropriate jobs back home without prejudice. 

We seek for the liberation of our culture from institutionalized segregation that results to discrimination, heckling, bashing, violence, and homophobia.

We seek for liberation from poverty, unemployment, unsecured jobs, and economic crisis besetting our ranks and the whole Filipino people.

That gays are not harbingers nor AIDS carriers but humans like everyone else. We seek for protection of gays not to be used by traditional politicians (trapos) for their pseudo-pro-people platform and activities.

We seek for the protection and support for gay couples and provide them the necessary understanding they need and deserve. 

We join our sisters in the women’s movement for an end to patriarchy for we ourselves, like them who are doubly exploited, are victims of it. 

We join the oppressed workers and peasants in their struggle for national freedom and democracy and an end to plunder of the nation's patrimony and natural wealth being made by foreign masters-exploiters.

Lastly, we call on all gays, bisexuals, lesbians and heterosexuals, to work together and struggle collectively for a better society and world that is equal just, free, & democratic for all of us to live in. ###

26^th of June 1998