Tonette Lopez
Tonette Lopez (died April 25, 2006) was the first transgender woman activist in the Philippines and a popular Asian LGBT activist, HIV/AIDS researcher and journalist.
Tonette Lopez | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wellington "Tonette" Lopez Oras, Eastern Samar Philippines |
| Died | April 25, 2006 |
| Occupation | Filipino/Asian transactivist |
| Years active | 2000-2006 |
Lopez led the 16th International AIDS Conference in 2005.[1]
Gahum Philippines
In 2001, Lopez started the Gay Human Rights Movement (GAHUM), based in Cebu City.
Lopez has stated: "Discrimination is very eminent. A country such ours, which is predominantly Roman Catholic is very difficult. Opinions and decisions are always coiled and intertwined with one's religiosity, belief and faith."[2]
gollark: Originally Bill Gates, apparently now the meaning of culling and also of words.
gollark: If you accept this then any action which reduces future human population in some way is "culling", which is stupid.
gollark: This is another maybe technically accurate (at an even greater stretch) but ridiculous interpretation. If people don't exist, it is not in fact possible to remove them.
gollark: This sort of thing makes natural languages quite annoying, but you can help by, well, not picking the most emotionally charged word which "technically matches".
gollark: If I say "that person is a criminal" you might very well have a worsened opinion of them, even if I know that all they actually did was jaywalking or something. It's technically not *false* to call them that but misleads.
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