Barangay LA

Two years ago a couple of my friends introduced me to Barangay LA, a community organization that has made a huge impact in representing the Filipino LGBTQ community. Working closely with the organization and its members, I've gained experiences which I don't think I would have encountered on my own. In addition, I was also able to meet some pretty amazing people.

Here are those amazing people I speak of. Barangay LA's Board of Directors.

For more information about Barangay LA, you can visit their website or their facebook page.
They have plenty of events lined up this year thats definitely worth checking out. One of those events is the KAPWA Awards which will be on May 5th. You can learn more about this event here.

Workshop

It took me a while to put together a post for Malaya Project's very first college campus workshop. As you can tell by looking at my rinky dink blog, I try to keep things simple because HTML codes gives me a headache. I was trying to tidy up Malaya Project's site which required a couple of hair-pulling nights and gallons of coffee. I think I was able to accomplish what we had in mind and navigating through the site is a little bit more seamless.

Anyway, check out the image below and see how our workshop turned out.

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Malaya Project x UCLA

Very excited for this.

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Malaya Project x Diane Abapo

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Malaya Project x Nico De Castro

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Video: Malaya Project x Nico de Castro

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Sneak Peek

Malaya Project x Nico De Castro

Malaya Project x Ongina

It's out!

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LA Pride 2012 - Barangay LA Sagala

Last weekend was LA Pride. Amado and I marched with Barangay LA 

and this year's Sagala theme was way bigger than I anticipated.

It's was still overwhelming to have the LGBTQ community welcome Barangay LA.

But I think having the Filipino community embrace and support us was even bigger.

Ongina with Barangay LA's "Media Man" Jeremiah.

I'm going to quote Pedro on this one. 

"I wonder what these Queens are KiKi-ing about... Oh the SHADE of it all... lol"

Amado was one of Ongina's arch bearers. Pretty much very happy with his task.

Love this girl's reaction as we passed by.

Last year Barangay LA has there queens march with theme.

I think they took a huge leap this year.

Goofing off with Gee Gaga and Ongina while we were waiting to get in the festival.

And what seems to be becoming the signature pose for board members photo. 

Either this or the legs pose. I think I'll go for this one.

Very proud of Barangay LA. You pulled off another memorable event.

Can't wait for the next one!

Malaya Project - Sneak Peek

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LA Pride 2012

Amado and I marched with Barangay LA this past weekend.

Well, we did more than that but I'll save the details for another post when its ready.

While waiting for the parade to start, I snapped a photo of this couple carrying their kids and a dog.

After that "aaaawwww" feeling slowly faded away, I was struck by jealousy.

As much as I post about the work I do for the LGBTQ community, I've never really

addressed it directly on my blog. I hope others see what I saw when I took this photo.

A family thats no different from others.

Malaya Project : Allison Santos

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I'm really happy with the final images.