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PHILIPPINES

Male to Male relationships: Legal
Punishments for male to male relationships: No law
Female to Female Relationships: Legal
Age of consent: Equal for heterosexuals and homosexuals
Is it possible to change your gender on official documents?: No
Gay or lesbian able to serve in the armed forces: Yes

Your Views

Are you LGBTI? We want to hear from you! Help us inform other users of the site with your views on this country. Below is a random question about this country. If it is relevant to you please answer it.

Have you had problems obtaining treatment for HIV/AIDS or STD/STIs in PHILIPPINES?

The majority of people visiting this site have said Yes, access to prevention is limited

Yes, there is no access prevention (0 %) Yes, access to prevention is limited (80%) Yes, getting prevention is stigmatized (0 %) No (20%)

The Your Stories section is all about you! Please take a minute to tell visitors of the ILGA website about what LGBTI life is like in reality. Please submit your personal story and share your experience!

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Readers Experiences

This is what people are saying about life for LGBTI people in PHILIPPINES...
bernard posted for gay readers on 14/01/2010 tagged with human rights +0
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hi to all, iam Bernard castillo 21 years of age. there are so many things in this world that are quite difficult i manage to be raised in a community. who are against gay. allow me to start my story when i was still 6 years old back then no father because i was being raised by my mother alone. before there are 3 questions running in my mind where is my father? do i have a father? when could i see him. in the early days of my life i manage to be away from others coz iam an adopted by my mother . whenever i saw her doing those retouch it seems like i somehow acquire it somehow i had some confusios inside my heart what to express.where to be what to ? what will happen to me if i continue being like this . some judge me saying isnt it an abnormality they even mangae to belittle my capabilities, talents , intellectual capacity,strenght in doing little chores. i somehow ask myself why does this world put me in a cage of being punish by burning words of insults noticing that iam not doing any bad to them nor even doing anything to oppose them. guys it was so painfull, hard is this the way we should live ?i stromgly believe like others we all have the right to be normal be treated to be an ordinary person on the next door. stand high guys because in leaping can gather and in hard work we could achieve what we want.i may not be a good english speaker i could even express my real feelings but if you guys are interested knowing me feel free to check my facebook and yahoo messenger pls bare me time coz iam so feeling bitten up by blues arrising XXXX or XXXXXXX or XXXXXXXX pls
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bernard posted for gay readers on 14/01/2010 tagged with human rights +0
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hi to all, iam Bernard castillo 21 years of age. there are so many things in this world that are quite difficult i manage to be raised in a community. who are against gay. allow me to start my story when i was still 6 years old back then no father because i was being raised by my mother alone. before there are 3 questions running in my mind where is my father? do i have a father? when could i see him. in the early days of my life i manage to be away from others coz iam an adopted by my mother . whenever i saw her doing those retouch it seems like i somehow acquire it somehow i had some confusios inside my heart what to express.where to be what to ? what will happen to me if i continue being like this . some judge me saying isnt it an abnormality they even mangae to belittle my capabilities, talents , intellectual capacity,strenght in doing little chores. i somehow ask myself why does this world put me in a cage of being punish by burning words of insults noticing that iam not doing any bad to them nor even doing anything to oppose them. guys it was so painfull, hard is this the way we should live ?i stromgly believe like others we all have the right to be normal be treated to be an ordinary person on the next door. stand high guys because in leaping can gather and in hard work we could achieve what we want.i may not be a good english speaker i could even express my real feelings but if you guys are interested knowing me feel free to check my facebook and yahoo messenger pls bare me time coz iam so feeling bitten up by blues arrising XXXX or XXXXXXX or XXXXXXXX pls
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