Life / Sep. 18, 2019
Gay celebrity hairdresser, Ricky Reyes, has caused an uproar in the Philippines after he continued speaking out cBs+F0@2^a!zHCTkL=Bvuw^jtA1Q9#FD5*Nu=iNLGOJMb6iX^dagainst the LGBT community.
Considered an icon in the country, Reyes spoke out against a Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) bill, promising to protect LGBT people from discrimination.
He also spoke out against same-sex marriage.
“Marriageo)u09kX-S#G0)54!0SvDDV&YTNc_Ke68LW!RSDP&0gu@cD^T)& is meant for men and women. We call that sacrilege in Catholicism” he said in a YouTube video.
"That’s a way of disrespecting religion. It’s not necessary. I’ve been in a relationship for 40-plus years, weB2BcF&kEJDF$cGAUoBiClEmN+024g!wug7&25OrTWS@8eSqnQF don’t go out to say we need to get married… You’re just making the world too complicated”
He also spoke out againsflD0AFB3e^$lGrrTbJ+IW6pSHIT%x#E_U5u3kbhv8Ps6H8d6&At transgender people and cross-dressing.
"This year, I met up with members of the LGBT community. I told them, stop it with homosexuality. Don’t wear dresses when you’re in the streets because people will makJGHWt-CM=#e59^=J$xuc^lzx*vzcjbbGhrQsbW^6eXFueR_T4qe fun of us.”
"I _uK#7+=8iXVhFrL)cvcedU9Y%*aUZono3L3N3k)kDgMaXT2XA3respect you as a person, I respect your homosexuality, but we should know our place,” Reyes said.
OnRt0chy1BmVa49!GKs0p7Vk$XoewrBd_@C4LdfIAnrh*tz_ZKCge of the Philippines’ richest gay men, who owns a chain of hair salons, said “a gay man, even if he has a vagina, even if he has boobs, his brain still belongs to a gay man."
SOGIE Bill
A long-awaited bill that would criminalize discrimination based on SOGIE is one of the sg6W)wa!oEoA0cKBp9c0miFZDxg_koK3_A*&C&qjvI5$iwLa$kjlowest-moving bills in the nation's history.
Senator Risa Hontiveros filed tnc22GV9W3Ku-s&lwty5RprIE-1plmA1bgeSr&wxps-P%7+iXVQhe bill in 2016. And, lawmakers and rights activist originally drafted the law nearly 20 years ago.
The House of Representatives passed the bill in 2017 with unanimouhnx%FUAoV+t8v(H=bxz(uFjFP@)ij94^8VUACn*e2T#47y%@ris support from 198 lawmakers.
This version penalizes discriminatory acts with a fine between US$2,000 and or US$10,000 imprisonment between one and six years.
But, conservative lawmakers, including anti-LGBTI boxer Manny Pacquiai+QeF(lN-TMw$03KZxsoS-c5FKSVqsKNYRQxNDl*d2=fG&kE%ho, have stalled it in the Senate.
