PRIDE IN THE GRAND MANNER
Members of the UP Law Faculty issue Statement of Support for Pride Month “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” These words by former US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. echo the voices in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) community who long for ample protection of the law in order to live full and dignified lives. The experiences of Filipino gender minorities reveal a history of repression and exclusion in the legal institutions that the majority of us never had to fight to get access to. Our experiences…