BY: RICKY CLORES DLSU - D Presented by: Gerald William C. Paragas Ph.D. Candidate in Business Administration 02 December 2012

 “Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities” - from Ayn Rand’s “Collectived Rights”from Ayn Rand’s “Collectived Rights”

INTRODUCTION:  LGBT means Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans- genders.  LGBT is a minority movement under the Division 44 of the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP).  Mr. Clores said that in the American point of view, when a man had a sexual encounter with a gay, that man is a gay.  Role playing in sexual encounter.  Power play means tagging a person as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans-gender by an individual, a group, or a society.

 LGBT or Division 44 has been funded of US$300,000 by the American Psychological Association.  Issue: Mr. Clores said that heterosexuals have rituals such as marriage entered into by two partners officially (whether church or civil wedding). For LGBTs, they do not have rituals recognized by the society.  Issue: Pink economy by Hird and Gardiner (1994) is based on an idea that gay men tend to have above average spending power.  Issue: Death issues for LGBT. Clores asks how can a beneficiary claim what is due for him/her?

 Issue: Toilet issues for gays per Clores.  Issue: Parenting issues for LGBT vs. heterosexuals.  Clores claims that more parenting abuses committed by heterosexuals rather than the LGBTs.  Issue: Clores said that there was a move to prohibit LGBTs from teaching in the academe.  Clores said that abuses occur when a person is a LGBT. Hence, the person may become:  Promiscuous  Self destructive  Nang - aabuso

 Issue: Is there LGBT genes by Clores? If there are, society will now accept them.  Issue: Back when you were born, what did the doctor announced? Boy or girl? - No LGBT gender.  Since the genetic make up for men is XY chromosomes and for women is XX chromosomes. For LGBT - none.  Issue: If you were asked online, what is your gender? Male or Female. No LGBT gender class.  Issue: Clores said that there is also gender identity by asking the question: How would people describe the way you look, dress, talk, act, and carry yourself? Dress either male or female. No LGBT dress code.

 Sexual orientation by Alfred Kinsey (1948): 

0- Exclusively heterosexual with no homosexual 1- Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual 2- Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual 3- Equally heterosexual and homosexual 4- Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual 5- Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual 6- Exclusively homosexual

 Who are the Filipino LGBTs?  Lesbians - Filipino women attracted romantically and sexually to other women.  Gays - Filipino men attracted romantically and sexually to other men.  Bisexuals - Filipino men / women attracted romantically and sexually to both men and women.  Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. (

 Issue: Clores said that the "babaylans" are not female priests but male priests since in Palawan the "pagdidiwata" or calling the spirits of nature is done by male persons. Reason: Female cannot handle the forces in that ritual.  Ultimate advocacy of Division 44:  Clores said that Division 44 aims to view LGBT in a different paradigm wherein the sexual identity of the person should comes from the person himself/herself and not the dictates or the tagging of other individuals, groups and societies.  In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association voted to eliminate homosexuality from its list of disordered mental conditions, referring to it rather as a variation in sexual orientation.

 Other issues:  Harvey Milk - "...you've got to keep electing gay people...to know there is better hope for tomorrow. Not only for gays, but for blacks, Asians, the disabled, our senior citizens and us. Without hope, we give up. I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it life is not worth living. You and you and you have got to see that the promise does not fade."  Harvey Milk was the first American gay elected politician. (22 May November 1978)

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