Police officers in the Philippines are soon to be 'sensitized' to LGBT issues through training from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGHRC) and Ladlad, the world's only LGBT political party.

The police training will include a dialogue with LGBT community members and six three-day gender and sexuality workshops with relevant officers in major provinces all over the Philippines

The world's only political party solely dedicated to LGBT issues, Ladlad in the Philippines, launched its election campaign yesterday.

The first day of campaigning started with a blessing at 7am from Rev Ceejay Agbayani from LGBTS community church and continued with canvassing in two markets in Manila and visits to the Home for the Golden Gays elderly care home for LGBT people and beauty salons where many Filipino trans women work.

Twelve regional and family court judges from all over the Philippines learnt how to better protect the rights of LGBT citizens at a roundtable discussion sponsored by the US Department of Justice last week in Manila

During the one-day seminar titled Roundtable Discussion: Knowledge Sharing on the Protection of the Rights of the LGBT Sector, community activists and experts spoke about the human rights of sexual orientation and gender identity (sogi) minorities in the Philippines.

Five Filipino LGBT writers took part in a panel discussion about their work as part of the Philippine International Literary Festival in Manila last Friday.

Writers Ian Casocot, Nerisa del Carmen Guevara, Ralph Semino Galan and Johanna Lynn Cruz answered questions about their work.

The panel was facilitated by J. Neil. C. Garcia, director of the University of Philippines Press, poet and author of Philippine Gay Culture (1996, republished by Hong Kong University Press 2009), which has become a classic of queer scholarship in Asia.

Martina Navratilova is much more than the world’s best ever female tennis player.

She is also a champion for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights (as well as for animals and underprivileged children) and an icon and inspiration for millions of people around the world.

As London opens the 2012 Summer Olympics today (27 July) we reveal our exclusive interview with her, conducted at the Out and Equal Global Workplace Summit in the UK capital last month, where she was a keynote speaker.

A gay Filipino man was stabbed 21 times inside his home in Tacloban City on Wednesday night (20 June).

Diego Balintong Jr, 24, was stabbed after he was approached by three men who said they were looking for a drinking session, according to reports from the police.

Balintong’s family, who live next door, immediately notified authorities when they heard his cries for help.

The victim, who works as a government employee, is in a critical condition at hospital but doctors believe he will survive the attack.

Lawyer and former priest-in-training Raymond Alikpala has written a book about growing up Catholic and in the closet in the Philippines.

Of God and Men subtitled A Life in the Closet was published earlier this year by Irish non-fiction publishers Maverick House.