Philippines: Lodestar for the Elections—Danton Remoto
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=1298439/1/2008
It is on a day like this, on a fine Saturday afternoon, that I am going to the Manila Yacht Club for my next political meeting. When Ang Ladlad, our lesbian-gay-transgender-bisexual (LGBT) political party filed our papers for accreditation in the party-list elections for May 14, 2007, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) blanched and said "No, you didn't have enough people for a national constituency." Yeah, right. To paraphrase the Pussycats, "And don't cha!" Don't cha say that without checking, too, the membership roster – with real names and addresses – of the many other party lists of dubious provenance that were allowed to run in the last, super-messy elections.
