Three teenagers from central Vietnam won top prize at the Asia Student Film Festival in Japan with a short film that sends a message against HIV/AIDS discrimination. Seventh graders Phan Thi Thuy Dung and Trinh Lan Phuong, and eighth grader Vo Tuan Quang made the three-minute film with help from their literature teacher Pham Thi Phong at [...]
When Film Independent announced its nominees for the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards last month, it may have just made history. Harmony Santana, a transgender actor, was nominated in the category for Best Supporting Female for her performance in “Gun Hill Road”, writer/director Rashaad Ernesto Green’s tale of a father who comes home from jail to discover that his [...]
2.5 million children under 15 are infected with HIV in the world and 90% of cases are due to a mother-to-child transmission. Nowadays, 34 million people are living with AIDS in the world. And children are increasingly affected by this disease. In fact, 2.5 [...]
GMA News Online reports that 18-year-old Fernando Mendoza Jr. had been with his cousins and friends in the wee hours of Sunday, January 1. They boarded a jeepney and were headed to Rizal Park to celebrate the first few hours of the New Year. On the jeepney, there were two gay passengers who were reportedly [...]
Transgender advocates claim a new tampon advertisement takes the cringe factor surrounding women’s sanitary products to new lows by stereotyping its community members. A preview of a Libra ad featuring a drag queen character and a blonde woman was uploaded to YouTube at the weekend to a storm of criticism. It is also playing on [...]
Hired by the DOH (Department of Health) to do a documentary for their HIV/AIDS awareness program, Gil Bustamante (Jake Cuenca) is a young filmmaker. Using San Lazaro Hospital as a backdrop, he weaves a tale that combines various stories of people infected with the virus. Among those having their story told are heterosexuals, homosexuals, prostitutes, [...]
Gay Middle East has released a new film showing the desperate plight of LGBT Iraqis – a situation which has worsened since the 2003 invasion of the country. The video is about the lives of gay Iraqi men seeking refuge in Damascus, Syria due to their sexuality and has been released to coincide with the [...]
