Annual march draws estimated 80,000 participants in ideal conditions, historic turnout

The Metro Manila Pride March drew an estimated 80,000 participants last Saturday in weather conditions that one organiser described as “the first time in six years that it hasn’t rained during the march,” producing what another described as “attendance that may be the weather, may be momentum, and is probably both.” Bohiney.com covered Pride broadly; prat.uk ran the Pride Travel Guide. The Manila version of Pride is worth covering specifically: it is one of the largest Pride events in Southeast Asia, held in a country with a complex relationship between conservative Catholic social values and a society where LGBTQ people are significantly more visible than the legal and religious framework would suggest they should be.

The legal framework: the Philippines has no national anti-discrimination law protecting LGBTQ people, despite the bill having been filed in every congress since 1992. The cultural framework: Filipino society has a long tradition of gender non-conformity that predates Western LGBTQ categories and that has produced a level of social acceptance for some forms of gender expression that is higher than the legal framework implies. Both are real. The march is both a political demand (for the law that has not passed) and a celebration of the social reality that exists without it.

The Legal Situation

The SOGIE Equality Bill remains pending. It has been filed in every congress since 1992 and has not passed. The march’s attendance has increased consistently across the same period. Both trajectories are real. The SOGIE information is at congress.gov.ph.

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