“What do you think is the reason that Ms.
Risa Hontiveros is an LGBT rights advocate?”
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| Photo taken from Cesar Patrick Bonales on Facebook |
Hello there
again RANTers!!! Did you guys miss me? Of course not. Ahahahaha! (Come on!
Laugh with me! I look like a schizo here!)
So, this is
the second post that I have done for this day. Why? It’s because I haven’t
posted anything on this blog site for the past two Mondays. So, yeah I’ll be
doing three posts in one day and this would be the second one.
Before I answer
the question above, I’ll be telling you one story (And now I’ve became
Grandmother Goose.).
Last April
15, 2013, I attended one of the tapings of “Mano-Mano ni Anthony Taberna” as one
of the audience from Youth Vote Philippines (YVP). Ms. Risa Hontiveros was
there together with other two senatoriables, Cong. Teddy Casiño and Senator Trillanes.
During the
break of the taping, we were told that three of us, from the YVP, need to
formulate a question to ask any of the senatoriables present and I was supposed
to be one of them. I immediately thought of the question that had been bugging
me for some time. That question is why Ms. Risa Hontiveros an LGBT rights
advocate. But then I was ashamed (And to think that I’m a thespian. Geez!) to
ask it on national television so I kept it to myself.
Then just
last week, Nr. Alvin Dakis posted on our Facebook group that there would be an
interview with Ms. Risa Hontiveros on April 25, 2013. Just as soon as I saw it
posted on our group, I immediately responded that I could come to the event to
cover it. Then lo and behold, I was one of the two PHBS members who went to the
interview (I was with Nr. Janina Santos that time).
The
interview was done by BLOGWATCH and each person who was there during the
interview is asked to prepare some queries. Need I say more that I asked the
query that had been bugging my mind; what made Ms. Risa Hontiveros an LGBT
rights advocate?
Now, some of
you could be thinking that maybe the reason that Ms Risa Hontiveros is
supporting LGBT Rights is because she’s one of us. The answer to that is
“N-O!”. She’s NEITHER a lesbian nor a bisexual. Let’s all be C-R-Y-S-T-A-L clear
on that.
As what Nr.
Alvin Dakis have said to me one time, “No need to be an LGBT to be an LGBT
advocate”. He is right on that part (Even though he is a left-handed person. I
am so C-O-R-N-Y!)
Now, to
answer the question on the first part of this post, here is the Ms. Hontivero’s
W-H-O-L-E answer to that…
“My Tito was
a gay man.”
Those first
F-I-V-E words (Woah! I actually know how to count! I never thought I could do
that.) was enough for me. But then she continued with her speech. She told us
that her Tito left the country because he himself knows that he’ll N-E-V-E-R be
happy here. Why? Because to the society back then (In my own perspective, that
is.), we were mere JOKES; something to laugh at and should never allowed to
live. We were thought as “a MISTAKE of the Creation”. But to her, we are also
HUMAN BEINGS who have the right to E-X-I-S-T just as anybody else is.
One thing
that she said that made an I-M-P-A-C-T on my life as a gay guy is this….
“Yung
expression natin (Our expression) of who we are, who we love is part of being
human. It’s the most basic thing that we have to cherish.”
Is it one of
the most W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L thing that I’ve heard or what? My heart just swelled
(And I don’t have cardiomegaly nor history of it.) as soon as I heard it.
It’s true
that Ms. Risa Hontiveros is one senatoriable to vote for. She’s one S-I-M-P-L-E
human being who doesn’t have any prejudice to the LGBT community. And that’s
why for me, she is the equivalent of Mary Griffith (To those who doesn’t know
her, kindly watch “Prayers for Bobby”. It’s a good movie.) here in our country.
KUDOS
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