“We’re All Human, Right?”: Social Representations of LGBT + in Senate Hearings on the SOGIE Equality Bill in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Gamalinda, Tristan B, Ofreneo, Mira Alexis P
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: LGBT +; SOGIESC; Philippines; Homophobia; Social representations; Human rights; LGBT rights; Gender and Sexuality; Politics and Social Change; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/447; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-024-00953-0
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Introduction The 2019 Senate hearings on the proposed anti-LGBT + discrimination legislation in the Philippines re-ignited the 20-year-long debate on LGBT + protection in a country both known as a “gay-friendly nation” (Kohut in Pew Research Center, 2013; Manalastas et al., 2017) and “the last bast...