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Why Girly Girl 1+ Girly Girl 2 = Zero
Introducing my ex-girlfriend to my friends always entailed double takes after appraising the way we looked in our preferred ‘uniform’ of shirts, tight jeans, pearl earrings, ballet flats and lip...
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How To Talk To Old Friends, Years After You Came Out
First of all, remember them. Remember them on a listless Saturday evening, when you are in a state of social vacuum, and when in the deepest troughs you realize there are old ties that prevail, and...
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Ito Ang Ating Gabi
Lasing ka nang umuwi noong gabing iyon. Ayaw na ayaw ko kapag lasing ka: hindi mo natatantiya ang nag-iisang kamay mo. Ngunit lalong hindi ang mga salita sa iyong bibig. May baon kang kakaibang galit:...
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Prayer for My Future Son
Format gratefully ripped off from Tina Fey (Sign of the Cross optional) Dear Higher Being, May this future son be born to me and his other dad. I mean, it would be cool if you were to give him a mom...
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All Is Forgiven
V. It is as though nothing has happened. It’s two weeks to the date we first met, a year ago. From across the small table at Starbucks, he blinks brilliantly at me. His hair is just the length I like...
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Ang Lalaki at Kanyang PagkalalaKWE sa Panahon ng Twitter at Instagram
PINK PESO. Ito ang kulay ng pera ng mga ‘bakla’ sa kasalukuyan sa Pilipinas ayon na rin sa pamagat ng isang dokumentaryo ni Kara David. Ito ang ginagamit nila bilang pantustos sa kanilang mga...
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Not-Hot Guys Are the Enemy
Stay away from not-hot guys. Avoid them like the plague. Because the thing about not-hot guys is, they fall in love with you. Consider: You come home at eight with a guy you never intended to bring to...
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Stay
I first fell in love with the 20 year-old version of you. He was a significantly skinnier lad, not that I’m complaining. He has a pair of unusually-dark eyelids as if God decided to spare him from...
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If It’s Not Too Much To Ask
Current events have been pushing me to make this post. The other night while hanging with the kids, this news bit about a newly-proclaimed tomboy - gad these idiots, do you know you can be a tomboy...
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Beautiful Boy in Blue
It won’t go down as one of the best stories ever told about passing love, but this is a story I have to tell. The story of a boy who by passing chance met another boy, and while life in general hasn’t...
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Weddings
The lace that covers her face sways with the wind, the butterfly effect of my sharp intake of breath as the wooden doors opened. Her train cascades down the steps like an undiscovered stream, and I...
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Good Boy
The office clock read 9:45 PM. I had never stayed that late in the office. Work kept piling up over the past few weeks. Each “CONFIDENTIAL, High Priority” email that I replied to, each document that I...
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A Boy In Iloilo
He’s a boy of eighteen, fled Bacolod out of whim, found himself in Iloilo one evening in July, found me sitting in the corner of a lonely pub. Our beer bottles clunked by eleven, then he held my hand....
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On the Death of Reciprocity
Whether or not he could ever love me back was the most obvious question we could not settle in the years I have desperately tried to entangle myself to him. In part, it has been buried beneath the...
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An Ode to A Great Love
You were my first love. My first kiss. My first heartbreak. My first everything. I loved you at an age when I didn’t even know what love was. You were my classmate in our exclusive, all-girls Catholic...
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Chicory
In my freshman year of college, my best friend and I agreed to be roommates. It didn’t come as a surprise to our friends since we’d always done things together in high school. Our parents knew each...
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My Husband’s Lover Behind Bars
It was the television show that rocked the Philippines. For a country reportedly gay-friendly, the portrayal of two masculine men, one married, making out on primetime television alarmed a lot of...
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23 Very Short Coming Out Stories
1. I came out to my parents in the car on the way home from dinner one night. Mom was like, “I think you need to see a priest, because this is not the path that God chose for you.” And dad was like,...
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Ordinary
That is all I am. I’m neither a famous writer, nor a living legend. You’re not an environmental lawyer, nor are you a saint. You once told me to be what I was born to be. Then, I left you, or you left...
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To A New Friend
Three. That is the number of people I have slept with since I came back home for my brief vacation. That number is higher than what my total was before I got here. Two, in case you were curious. And...
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