Politicians addressing gay tolerance

Description:AFP There is an elevated stage in the basketball court-cum-community hall that Philippine Congresswoman Geraldine Roman is using to address her constituents, but she chooses not to use it. Instead she remains on their level, cracking jokes and singing as she outlines her local government platform — emphasising her education and livelihood programmes and underlining her commitment to a national bill that will outlaw discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT community. Years of campaigning for her parents, Antonio now deceased and Herminia, who both served as representatives of the first district of Bataan, were like a boot camp for Roman, showing her the importance of engaging on a human level. Symbol of hope The election of Roman, who underwent sex reassignment surgery in New York in the s, symbolised many things to many people:

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