A columnist shares their experience of witnessing the growth of LGBTA+ advocacy in the Philippines over the years.
In 1990, I started the first gay column in Catholic and conservative Philippines for a popular newspaper in Manila. I brought the column with me, under a different title, when I was hired as an editor for another newspaper four years later. The same column was part of my deal with the old Manila Times newspaper, which hired me as senior editor of its Sunday Times Magazine in 1996.
I worked with the Times until it got embroiled in a controversy with then President Joseph Estrada, whom the newspaper had called 'an unwitting ninong (godfather)' to the IMPSA deal in Argentina. Another newspaper then hired me as a weekly columnist and allowed me the leeway to write about any topic, 'especially gay topics,' for their massive readership. I stayed with that newspaper for 20 years until I returned to the Times to work on its editorial desk and write columns.That odyssey matters because it shows I have seen the rise of LGBTA+ advocacy in the Philippine
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