UP Babaylan

24/10/2025

Magkasamang lumiliyab, Magkasamang nagmamahal! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

21/10/2025

Q***r stories deserve to be seen.
We belong on the big screen.

Indeed, we have achieved great heights in our calls for visibility, for our stories to be heard, and for our right to desire and exist. However, after Dreamboi was given an X rating twice by the MTRCB, we are harshly reminded that the fight is far from over.

In spite of this, we continue. We continue to rise. We rise because we stand firm in our beliefs that we will NOT allow ourselves to be silenced again.

To be seen is not obscene.
To tell our stories is not a crime.
We will keep fighting for our place, for our voice — and we will win.

Watch Dreamboi by Rodina Singh from October 22 to 28, exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas.

19/10/2025

𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞.
Behold the delegates of MX. UP 2025: The Grand Pride Night.

Witness history unfold on 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗮𝘁 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗨𝗣 𝗗𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗻 — a night where every hue burns brighter, and love becomes the language of light.❤️‍🔥

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19/10/2025

Join us this October 20 at Cine Adarna, from 2:00 PM onwards, as we celebrate stories of love, identity, and resistance through film. 🌈🎥

UP Pride Film Festival 2025: Cine LagabLove Schedule:

Registration Period (2:00 PM - 2:30 PM)

SET A (2:30 PM - 3:20 PM)
・Tahan
・Complete Control
・BEHIND THE GOLDEN CURTAIN

SET B (3:35 PM - 4:33 PM)
・Lost and Found
・NOMO KWEEN: The Last Woman Standing
・Sa Mayo Ikaw ay Babalik

SET C (4:48 PM - 5:40 PM)
・I Love You, But I'm Ugly
・Isang Jeep Pa
・Halikana

For those interested in attending, please answer the pre-registration form now:
https://bit.ly/CineLagabLovePreReg

Admission is PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN and open to the public!

15/10/2025

It has been 25 years too long. That is 25 years of delayed recognition, delayed protection, and delayed justice. Every year that passes without the bill is another year in which inequality is sanctioned by inaction.

Three more lawmakers have filed House Bill No. 5266, or the SOGIESC Equality Act, which seeks to penalize discrimination based on S*xual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and S*x Characteristics (SOGIESC). Earlier in the 20th Congress, similar versions of the bill were also filed by Reps. Perci Cendaña, Chel Diokno, Kaka Bag-Ao, Dadah Kiram, Renee Co, and Antonio Tinio, all pushing for equal rights and protection from discrimination.

Delaying the Equality Bill is not neutral — it is a blatant attack on the rights and dignity of EVERY FILIPINO. For more than two decades, people have been killed, forced to live in fear, and countless have endured discrimination without recourse.
To go against the Equality Bill is to be complicit in violence and inequality.

To our senators and representatives, the Equality Bill has been refiled every Congress for 25 years. The same arguments have been repeated, and the same misconceptions have been clarified again and again. There is nothing left to debate — only the choice between justice and complicity.

End discrimination. Pass the Equality Bill Now!

11/10/2025

We are proud to announce that we are partnering with PREMIERE Condoms in the fight for HIV awareness and prevention. ✊

Every PREMIERE Condoms Love Bundle you buy doesn’t just protect you—it also directly supports our advocacy of uplifting and empowering the LGBTIQ+ community.

And here’s a bonus: each Love Bundle comes with a FREE concert ticket to see Maki and Maxie LIVE! 🔥 (More bundles = more tickets!)

Available now at Watsons stores and online. Together, let’s stay protected, proud, and united.

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No tea, no shade—our fight for HIV awareness and protection is stronger when we stand together. ✊

That’s why we’re partnering with UP Babaylan, Asia’s longest-running LGBTIQ+ student org. Your purchase of PREMIERE Condoms Love Bundle directly supports their advocacy—uplifting the LGBTIQ+ community while championing HIV awareness and prevention.

One Love Bundle gets you a FREE concert ticket to see Maki and Maxie LIVE! Grab as many as you want for more tickets! 🔥

Available now at Watsons stores and online. Don’t miss it!

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10/10/2025

In commemoration of Jennifer Laude’s 11th death anniversary tomorrow (October 11), UP Babaylan gave out white roses to students and members of the UP community with calls to , , and end gender-based discrimination and violence. 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻

08/10/2025

Ngayong International Le***an Day, pinapaalala natin: ang pagiging lesbiyana ay hindi pagsubok, mas lalo nang hindi paghihintay sa “tamang lalaki”, at hindi rin “yugto” na matatapos. Ang lesbiyana ay tunay, mahalaga, at karapat-dapat na kinikilala.

Ating ipinagdiriwang ang tapang at pag-ibig ng mga lesbiyana—mula sa noon pa mang una nilang pagmartsa ng identidad sa lansangan, sa pagpupunyagi kasama ang komunidad sa laban ng HIV/AIDS, hanggang sa tuluyang pagsigaw nila ngayon tungo sa mas makataong pagkikilala sa karapatan. Ipinagdiriwang din natin ang kanilang buo at malinaw na pag-iral na hindi kailanman matitinag.

Kailanman, ang pagmamahal ng mga lesbiyana ay pag-ibig na matatag, at lakas na humahamon sa lipunan upang kilalanin ang kababaihang umiibig sa kapwa babae. Idinidiin natin na ang Lesbiyana ay hindi yugto o pagkalito— ito ay pagkataong tunay na nagmamahal, buong pusong lumalaya at patuloy na lumalaban para sa ating mga karapatan.

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28/09/2025

Ngayong International Safe Abortion Day, ipinakikilala namin si Sunshine, ang batang babae at pangunahing tauhan sa pelikula ni Antoinette Jadaone, na napilitang humarap sa pagbubuntis sa gitna ng kanyang karera bilang isang pambansang atleta.

Ang kakulangan ng ligtas na opsyon ng pagpapalaglag na kinakaharap ni Sunshine ay hindi lamang nakakulong sa mundo ng pelikula ni Jadaone, ngunit isang malagim na katotohanan para sa libu-libong kababaihan sa Pilipinas na araw-araw pinaparusahan ng batas at stigma sa halip na mabigyan ng karapatan at kalinga.

Mariing naninindigan ang UP Babaylan para sa dekriminalisasyon ng aborsyon at para sa pagkilala na ang ligtas na aborsyon ay isang anyo ng tunay na kalinga: isang pagprotekta sa kalayaan, sa dignidad, at sa buhay ng kababaihan. Ang pagpili ay hindi krimen. Ang pagpili ay karapatan.

Ilang Sunshine pa ba ang kailangang magdusa bago tayo makinig?
Tumitindig kamit nananawagan: ligtas na aborsyon para sa lahat, ngayon na!

26/09/2025

𝐁𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐑. 𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑. 𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐑.

All roads blaze toward Quezon Hall on October 24, 2025 for Mx. UP 2025: The Grand Pride Night — the burning heart of UP Pride 2025, where every spark of courage rises into a single, unyielding flame of Pride. ❤️‍🔥

Resounding through UP and reaching beyond its halls, UP Pride 2025 burns as both defiance and celebration — a fire fueled by love, unquenchable and eternal.

Stand Proud. Claim your place. Sign up here:
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📩 For inquiries and concerns, email us at [email protected]

23/09/2025

Heto ako—nandito, ganap, at totoo.

Ngayong Bi Visibility Day, muli nating ipinapaalala: ang pagiging bisexual ay hindi pagkalito, hindi isang phase, at hindi rin pagtaksil sa komunidad. Ang bisexuality ay totoo, mahalaga, at karapat-dapat na kilalanin. Ang ating pagkatao ay hindi nakatali sa kasarian ng kasalukuyang minamahal, kundi sa malawak at malalim na kapasidad nating magmahal.

Ipinagpapatuloy natin ang laban upang kilalanin ang pag-iral ng mga bisexual sa ating lipunan—mga taong may kani-kaniyang kasaysayan ng pakikibaka laban sa erasure at diskriminason, mula sa labas at maging sa loob ng LGBTIQ+ community.

Sa araw na ito, ating ipinagdiriwang ang kanilang tapang at pagmamahal. Naninidigan tayo na sa gitna ng mundong madalas tayong pinapapili, hindi kailanman makakahon ang pagmamahal at pagkatao. At mas lalong hindi mabubura ang uri ng pagmamahal na mayroon tayo.

Tayo ay totoo, at tayo ay buong-buo.