Written last month as an introduction for the JCI bid book of our org "ilang ilang" for the best sports event. Thanks to Madam Pres Kaye for editing..
THE Agilympics
The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid 20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637.
Bading as they call it in the Tagalong language, Bayot in Cebuano and Agi in Ilonggo. Gays as we call them, in spite of their contribution to the society, their talents and accomplishments, there are still a lot of prejudice and discrimination attached to them. Thanks to their efforts and some open minded individuals or groups who have paved the way of their acceptance, the third sex has indeed gone a long way. Gone is the dark-age where homosexuality is considered a metal illness. We have gay rights movement not only in prominent countries of Europe and US but around the world. Yes, there are still places who have remained conservative and closed minded about these issues and occurrence like some Middle East and other Muslim countries but gay rights have been an emergence in which people not only tolerated and accepted but embraced in a general sense. We have annual gay rights parades here and elsewhere. In 1996, the Philippines staged the first ever gay parade which is also the first in Asia. The event is celebrated yearly since then.
In business, arts and mostly in the entertainment industry, there are several names we could come up who are prominent and successful gays. In the country we have designer Renee Salud, entrepreneur and designer, Inno Sotto, make up artist, Fanny Serrano and Ricky Reyes and the list goes on. Of course who would fail to mention the very controversial celebrity /entertainer BeBe Gandanghari who recently emancipated and claimed her “self confessed birth right of being a woman!” Save for that which created a spark of controversy both from among his/her peers and the public, they are respected and valued in their own fields. However in some scale the third sex is still a very marginalized and discriminated group especially in sports. These brothers (or sisters as they preferred to be called) are not given due recognition much less given an opportunity to excel. They are not given an avenue to demonstrate their talents and capabilities.
The Agilympics (Agi is actually a local term for gay or bading) was conceptualized in this premise. It is a showcase of talent through sports and other equally challenging activities. The JCI “Ilang-Ilang” together with the office of the Hon. Julienne Baronda, councilor of Iloilo city thought of giving gays the chance to showcase their talents on one Olympics like event that was called “Agilympics (Gaylympics). Councilor Jam, being the chair on the Committee for women and children is an active Vice President for Community of JCI Iloilo “Ilang-Ilang”. Together, the JCI Iloilo “Ilang-Ilang” and the Iloilo city government facilitated the event. With the catch phrase, “Be there, Be a Part and Be counted”, the Gaylympics was born. It was a one day activity especially conceptualized for the members of the third sex in Iloilo. It was designed to acknowledge the contribution of gays in our country.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
300
Written last march 09 (grammy time)
Just the other day, I woke up early so before I go to work I’d be able to catch all the performances for the grammys. In fact it was on of the reminder in my phone’s calendar. But as I expected I was late and I waited for a while for Rihanna’s performance but I was running late for work as well so I did not finish the show. and I thought I missed it. When I get to work my officemate showed me a news from the net about Rihanna and Chris Brown trouble. Too bad, I was rooting for this couple. In fact when I learned that they were having a concert in the country, weeks before Nov 17, I was deciding I am definitely flying to Manila for the concert me & my bestfriend tweety. It was even amazing that Globe is sponsoring and I thought- id look for Padrino – you know friends from higher places to get us to the front row! And front row we went!
300 (not the movie)
Allow me to quote Celine Lopez in her column, “ I will not apologize for liking Rihanna at my age” my bestfriend, tweety and I will Ditto to that! (Actually, she like Miley Cyrus as well ( in fact tweety has got all these Dvd compilation of all the Hannah Montana series so apologizing is a far out idea).
November 17, It was one fun day watching Rihanna and Chris Brown at The Fort Concert ground in Taguig. Indeed it was a double whammy for all the audience having watched two concert in one.
We stayed at South of market Condo aptly named for being south of market market and across Serendra in a friends condo. As in practically when you look up from the venue you’d see our window and vice versa.
Chris Brown is hot! Full of energy and good looks. No wonder all girls are just screaming their lungs out. Tweety and I would kid around that that Rihanna is one lucky girl . Tweety would gush!
From Iloilo I would travel and as soon as I get to Tweety’s hotel in Makati we immediately went to ticketworld to buy our P300 ticket knowing the implication. ( we will be in with the crowd ) While we were lining up at the mall we were with some mall utility buying their ticket as well availing discount. We were making fun of the fact that we have to buy tickets in the 300 area just to have it and if ever its just going to be our donation to the promoter.
It was such an auspicious day! We just have to wait for the security chief to bring us to the Platinum area where most of the celebrities are Sam Milby, Karyl, the models, mtv vjs, Tesa Prieto Valdez in her grand get-up where every one else is dressed down she is her usual standout. Everybody’s having so much fun especially during Chris browns part of the concert, I think that was everyone’s sentiment _ that Chris part of the concert is more fun than that of Rihannas.
The 300 ticket is still in my carel, Chris and Rihanna fought and yet again kissed and made up after the very public and very physical struggle which ended in court. And me, well - I am just looking forward to more concerts that my company is sponsoring!
Just the other day, I woke up early so before I go to work I’d be able to catch all the performances for the grammys. In fact it was on of the reminder in my phone’s calendar. But as I expected I was late and I waited for a while for Rihanna’s performance but I was running late for work as well so I did not finish the show. and I thought I missed it. When I get to work my officemate showed me a news from the net about Rihanna and Chris Brown trouble. Too bad, I was rooting for this couple. In fact when I learned that they were having a concert in the country, weeks before Nov 17, I was deciding I am definitely flying to Manila for the concert me & my bestfriend tweety. It was even amazing that Globe is sponsoring and I thought- id look for Padrino – you know friends from higher places to get us to the front row! And front row we went!
300 (not the movie)
Allow me to quote Celine Lopez in her column, “ I will not apologize for liking Rihanna at my age” my bestfriend, tweety and I will Ditto to that! (Actually, she like Miley Cyrus as well ( in fact tweety has got all these Dvd compilation of all the Hannah Montana series so apologizing is a far out idea).
November 17, It was one fun day watching Rihanna and Chris Brown at The Fort Concert ground in Taguig. Indeed it was a double whammy for all the audience having watched two concert in one.
We stayed at South of market Condo aptly named for being south of market market and across Serendra in a friends condo. As in practically when you look up from the venue you’d see our window and vice versa.
Chris Brown is hot! Full of energy and good looks. No wonder all girls are just screaming their lungs out. Tweety and I would kid around that that Rihanna is one lucky girl . Tweety would gush!
From Iloilo I would travel and as soon as I get to Tweety’s hotel in Makati we immediately went to ticketworld to buy our P300 ticket knowing the implication. ( we will be in with the crowd ) While we were lining up at the mall we were with some mall utility buying their ticket as well availing discount. We were making fun of the fact that we have to buy tickets in the 300 area just to have it and if ever its just going to be our donation to the promoter.
It was such an auspicious day! We just have to wait for the security chief to bring us to the Platinum area where most of the celebrities are Sam Milby, Karyl, the models, mtv vjs, Tesa Prieto Valdez in her grand get-up where every one else is dressed down she is her usual standout. Everybody’s having so much fun especially during Chris browns part of the concert, I think that was everyone’s sentiment _ that Chris part of the concert is more fun than that of Rihannas.
The 300 ticket is still in my carel, Chris and Rihanna fought and yet again kissed and made up after the very public and very physical struggle which ended in court. And me, well - I am just looking forward to more concerts that my company is sponsoring!
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