LGBTQ in Iloilo
I’m pretty gay.
(Pretty, and gay?)
But I’ve always known that I am more than just gay.
That’s why I don’t like labels.
I am many other things,...
You don’t know Pete
FOR THE PAST month that I have been in the country, I’ve been meeting new people.
Well, not really new “new” because most of them...
Saving lives
(Previously, PSN gatecrashes an AIDS/HIV seminar, argues for the use of buto and itut in sex talks, explains the current gonorrhea epidemic, and gets...
If you lie, you die
(Previously, PSN gatecrashes an AIDS/HIV seminar, takes the microphone, gets bashed for using words like buto and giti, and declares he is HIV negative.)
AND...
Penis, in English, is okay but its Hiligaynon term isn’t? Hypocrites!
(Previously, PSN loses a possible boyfriend over an HIV seminar he gate-crashes, and gets in trouble for using the word “buto” in a Teenage...
Between a boyfriend and HIV talk
I WAS SUPPOSED to meet a guy, who could have been a future boyfriend, in the morning of Aug. 9.
He was in an Iloilo...
The Creation of Hell
I WAS IN Bacolod City on Aug. 15 for the awarding of the 2018 Peter’s Prize in Poetry to Serafin Plotria, Jr. at the...
A poem on extrajudicial killings
IN JUNE 2018, I conducted a month-long online poetry workshop marathon participated by 47 poets and writers all over the world.
Seventy-five originally registered but...
Casa Dom Pedro
I ARRIVED in Manila from Los Angeles just before midnight of Aug. 2.
I flew from Manila to Iloilo in the early morning, and before...
Truth with a slant
I AM A prankster.
I love my position as the premier agent provocateur of Iloilo.
And the whole Western Visayas.
I live to stir the pot.
Rock the...