GROUP

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Kei Carlo Mayor

Irah Isabella Dimayuga

Imari Nicole Enderez

Flordeliza Lasat

Cinderella Magnaye

Natasha Cole Itao

Monica De Guzman

Myca Vistal
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ISANG DOKUMENTARYO

Most of us are aware of the so called LGBT community here in our country. LGBT stands
for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. It is the gender identity of a person which means it is
how you feel inside and how you show your gender through clothing, behavior, and personal
appearance. It’s a feeling and a choice that begins early in life. As the time goes by, the LGBT was
changed into LGBTQA+ (queer and androgynous). It’s for the people who were confuse with their
gender identity, who were afraid to show their real self because they are afraid to be judge by
others. We are also aware with the same sex marriage and it was connected with the LGBTQA+.
It’s a privilege of a person to choose who they want to marry in the future. If they want to marry
their same sex then be it. Same sex marriage was already legalized in some countries, but here in
the Philippines it’s still a topic to deal with. There are a lot of reasons why it can’t be legalized
here in our country.

To understand more about it, our group conducted an interview to the people who are part
of this organization and also those who are not but still have opinions about LGBT and same sex
marriage.

As we gathered information, we found out different pespectives from different people.

There are some who aren’t aware of what LGBT really means and also in the process of learning
what LGBT stands for. For those who are aware of this, they said that, though LGBT has their
legal rights still they are not fully accepted by the society. Others may say that having a third
gender was a sin and not a will of God but for the members or the other non-members of it said
that as long as they don’t make things that was against the law, people didn’t have any right to
judge them because they’re still human and part of the world. It is their choice, their happiness and
who are we to take it away from them.

When we asked about same sex marriage, some people agree and some are disagree. We were
surprised that one of our respondents was against or unfavorable about this topic and this person
was a member of LGBTQA+. His opinion was they already got the freedom to show their real
identity and being married with same sex was too much to ask and it was against by the rules and
beliefs of a catholic church. It was contradicting with the opinion of the other member of it.
 He said that he’s still considered Catholic Church because he is a Catholic but still, he
conclude that we are in new generation now. We must move on and go with flow, because we are
not in an old age anymore. He also said that, we just need to accept the fact that they already part
of the society and marriage is a pledge not a condition that a person must do. If that was there will
then be it. But for a foreigner and a religious person, having same sex marriage was really a
uneducated decision. First, for them it was really against the rules of religion, man and woman are
the only acceptable marriage to have in this world. The second one, was the disease that the person
may bring if they were going to have a relationship with same sex. A disease that is not curable, a
disease that was easy to have but difficult to get rid of.

As to conclude with the documentary film that we conduct, we as a group can evaluate and
understand the ideals and thoughts that with different perspectives and opinion, the way a person
view one another may vary, and that it would result to judgment and discrimination. Same sex
marriage and the perspective upon the LGBTQA+ has become one of the leading political topics
in the world today. There are a lot of things to ponder in accordance with the film we made. We
notice different advantages and disadvantages with regards to the issue being talked about. There
are strong arguments from both sides in support of their point of view. Those who are against of
same sex marriage say that marriage doesn’t only involve a piece of paper to show couple’s love
but in fact it involves spiritual and economic issues as well as legal and social aspects too. They
believe if same sex marriage is allowed in a society it would definitely bring change in the basic
definition of marriage. It also involved people’s perspective and is often due to their beliefs and
sexual orientation. When people are to ask if they agree or disagree with the same sex marriage,
many chose to disagree with this kind of thing. They would always answer that it breaks the rule
of what is in the bible and it is punishable by the Lord. While, taking deeper understanding about
the issue, we as a group conclude that this might just be affected by the level of learning and time
frame a person has. With its advantages, we can see that in contemporary world, the people
involved in the modern era give a lot of acceptance with regards to same sex marriage and their
view with the LGBTQA+. They assert that it was based on true love and it became a part of living.
Another advantage of same sex marriage is that it allows people to do what they wish to do without
the state or the society’s unnecessary interference. Same sex marriage allows both partners to have
equal rights in the society and they get access to all the benefits meant for married couples.
 All in all, whatever the matter, no doubt marriage is a beautiful celebration of love that
everyone should have the pleasure and right of celebrating it. We may have our own differences
and views, but what’s important is that how we value and respect each other no matter what sexual
orientation a person chose to exist. Every human being have the same basic human rights to love
and be loved, and if they are part of the LGBTQA+, we should accept them as they are because
they struggled more emotionally by being bullied and discriminated over something that they have
no control over. As to its religious affair, religions have different views regarding the existence of
same sex marriage and the LGBTQA+, but even though this aspect really became an argument, no
religion teach their people to commit violence nor hatred among the people. Decency and respect
are the attributes people have that truly accepts whoever the person is and what situation they are
enduring.
 UTAK LIPENYO
ISANG DOKUMENTARYO

NARRATED BY: KEI CARLO M. MAYOR

Narration: Dito sa bayan ng Lipa, matatagpuan ang mga iba't ibang uri ng paniniwala, kultura,
tao, at opinyon, kaya nilibot namin ang iba't ibang panig ng bayan na ito upang malaman ang
mga pananaw ng tao tungkol sa LGBT at sa same sex marriage.

(CITY HALL)

Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Magandang hapon po. Meron po akong katanungan para sa iyo: Alam
n'yo po ba ang LGBT?
Respondent 1: Yes
Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Ano po ang pananaw n'yo sa mga kabilang dito?
Respondent 1: Since kabilang ako, sa tingin ko naman eh ano... ayos naman kaming lahat, wala
naman kaming ginagawang masama.
Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Alam n'yo po ba kung ano ang same sex marriage?
Respondent 1: Yes,tsaka matinding usapin ito para sa'min
Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Meron pong research na isinagawa sa Pilipinas noong 2018, 2 sa 10 tao
lang daw po ang sumasang-ayon o pumapayag sa pagiging legal ng same sex marrige. Sang-ayon
po ba kayo sa same sex marriage?
Respondent 1: Ako, hindi ako sang-ayon kahit member ako 'nun, kasi para sa'kin uhhmm...nahingi
na namin yung freedom namin, nakuha na namin 'yun. Tsaka parang sapat na kasi 'yun. 'Yung
same sex marriage kasi is parang masyadong... sagrado kasi 'yung kasal sa simbahan kaya..
ano..parang masyado na naming nilalabag 'yung batas ng simbahan kung ipipilit pa namin 'yung
sarili namin.
Imari Nicole Enderez: Magandang hapon po, narito po ako upang kayo'y makapanayam sa ilang
katanungan lamang. Alam n'yo po ba kung ano ang LGBT?
Respondent 2: Yes po
Imari Nicole Enderez: Ano po ang mga pananaw ninyo sa mga kabilang dito?
Respondent 2: Para sa akin 'yung mga myembro ng LGBT.. sila 'yung... LGBT hindi pa sila
ganoong katanggap sa ating lipunan. Ang LGBT para sa akin, napakalaking ambag nila sa ating
lipunan bagamat hindi pa sila ganoong katanggap which is napaka ano.. napaka unfair….
Ang same sex marriage ay ‘yun yung legal na pagpapakasal ng parehas na kasarian, pero sa
panahon ngayon para sa’kin ay kailangan ng tanggapin kasi ano… maganda rin yun din yung dulot
sa atin. Sabi ko nga kanina eh ano.. may magandang implwensya ‘yun sa atin.

Narration: Sa city hall pa lamang ay natagpuan ang dalawang magkaibang opinyon. Hindi namin
inasahan na tumututol ang isang myembro ng LGBT sa same sex marriage habang sumusuporta
naman dito ang isang hindi myembro. Naipapakita dito na hindi lamang sa pagkakakilanlan sa
sarili naibabase ang mga opinyon ng bawat tao kundi nakakaapekto din dito ang kanilang
kinalakihan, pananaw, at rehiliyon.

(LIPA CITY, PUBLIC MARKET)

Kei Carlo Mayor: So, how old are you are sir?
Respondent 3: I'm 31
Kei Carlo Mayor: Oh yes sir, you're 21
Respondent: I'm 31 not 21
Kei Carlo Mayor: Okay sir, uhmm are you aware of LGBT?
Respondent 3: LGBT..what do you mean by LGBT first?
Kei Carlo Mayor: It's a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
Respondent 3: Yeah of course I’m aware. I’m staying in this country, but there are so many like
that in here right?
Kei Carlo Mayor: So, how do you view them? What's your opinion on LGBT?
Respondent 3: If you will ask me my opinion, I got two form of opinion, first is my personal
opinion and the other one is religious opinion. If you will ask me first personal opinion, I will
definitely say that I don’t like that. And if you will go for the religious opinion, the religion, any
religion, I’m Muslim. Anybody who is Christian, Hinduist, Buddhist, they will all say they will
don’t like it, definitely because LGBT will cause you more diseases. If you will see it in a scientific
way or in a medical way it will be cause you more effective in your own body aspects right? That’s
to me, I think it’s no.
Kei Carlo Mayor: Sir, are you aware of the same sex marriage?
Respondent 3: Yeah! Definitely, but how can you have same sex marriage? I mean like the thing
that the person who will said that the same sex marriage is totally prohibited, I mean like, I cannot
sleep with the boy, definitely. If I wanted to make myself pleasure, I can have a girl or my wife
not with the boy. I mean like it doesn’t make sense. But I don’t wanted to be uhmm... you know
offended to the people who is like gay or who is lesbian. That is their personal life. But if you will
ask me in my own opinion, naturally that I will say that.. naturally I will decline that and I will
neglect that.
Kei Carlo Mayor: There's a research that has been conducted last year, and it stated that 2 out of
10 Filipinos agreed that same sex marriage should be legalized. So what is your take on this?
Respondent 3: Basically I'm not a Filipino, but if you will ask any Filipino who will 2 out of 10
will agree that I said that they’re stupid. You’re boy right? She’s a girl right? A cannot sleep with
the girl, I mean like.. it’s up to them if they will sleep with them. But if ever they will sleep they
will have two types of diseases, one is HIV, AIDS, that doesn’t have any kind of medicine in this
whole world. Even if you will… even if you were sleeping with the gay to gay or boy to boy, even
if you’re using condoms or something like that, there’s no use of that. Because when you are
sleeping with somebody, like for an example a boy or a girl is sleeping… it is a different thing.
But when a same sex like that, it will be a total disaster. And due to that reason millions of people
are dying every single day around the whole world. I’m so sad to hear that in Philippines. I read
newspaper, and Filipinos are quiet in there, I heard a lot but yet they didn’t know that they future
will be totally dark. It’s your personal opinion but I would like to say that don’t go for that. Much
better to stay alone than having a same sex marriage coz in that future you whose gonna be infected
with the illnesses.

Narration:Sa patuloy naming paglilibot sa mga kalye ng Lipa, makikita na puno ng buhay at
makukulay na kultura ang lugar na ito. Sa aming paglalakad, napadpad kami sa sikat na street ng
P. Torres. Kaya ating tingnan kung ano ang masasabi ng mga tao dito tungkol sa same sex
marriage.

(P. TORRES ST.)

Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Magandang hapon po, narito po ako upang hingian po kayo ng opinyon
tungkol sa: Alam n'yo po ba kung ano ang LGBT?
Respondent 4: Sa aking pagkakaintindi or based on my understanding, LGBT stands for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender. Pero at the moment it was transformed into LGBTQA+ in which
intersex, androgynous, and queer.
Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Bilang parte po ng LGBTQA+, ano po ang pananaw ninyo tungkol dito?
Respondent 4: Well, based on my understanding, they are common norms or people of society
although they have a different practices, unlike the heterosexual people they do have different
perspectives and different insights when it comes to life. But basically as a normal people of the
community they do always practice abiding law, providing love, and always support their family.
Irah Isabella Dimayuga: alam n’yo po ba kung ano ang same sex marriage?
Respondent 4: Opo
Irah Isabella Dimayuga: Meron pong research na isinagawa noong 2018 sa Pilipinas, 2 sa 10 tao
lang daw po ang sumasang-ayon o pumapayag sa pagiging legal ng same sex marrige. Sang-ayon
po ba kayo sa same sex marriage? Bakit po?
Respondent 4: Bilang myembro ng Sagrada Katoliko or the catholic church, of course based on
the study or verses in bible which is men and women who can go with the marriage or the union
in front of God. But as a person and as a citizen, I think it’s to move on like in the other countries
that they do allowed same sex marriage because basically marriage is the provision of preposition
of love for each other. So, understanding that they do know or they can provide to themselves na
they will have responsibilities and loyalty, it’s just a pledge. Actually, marriage is a pledge.
Pledging to someone how you’re to going to be there for each other, support each other. So I think
it is now possible, I mean if you were close catholic country we have to move on and go with the
flow or re-changes which is happening right now.
Narration: Pagkagaling sa P. Torres ay tinunton namin ang lugar ng simbahan kung saan ay
paniguradong maraming may makukulay at konserbatibong opinyon sa isyu na ito. Ating alamin
kung ano nga ba ang masasabi ng mga tao sa baranggay labing isa.

(BARANGAY XI)

Myca Vistal: Alam n'yo po ba ang LGBT?

Respondent 5: Eh ngayon-ngayon lamang namin nalaman iyan
Myca Vistal: Alam n'yo po ang same sex marriage?
Respondent 5: Eh hindi nga namin alam ‘yan pano’y hindi kami naggaganyan. Nilalang ng D’yos
ang tao para babae at lalaki ang magsama hindi yung para babae’t babae pati lalaki, hindi ‘yun
pwede.

Monica De Guzman: Sa tingin mo ba, kung ikaw 'yung tatanungin, pumapayag ka ba na sa

ganoong klase ng sistema na nagpapakasal 'yung parehas babae, tapos parehas lalaki, payag ka ba
sa ganon?
Respondent 6: Hindi po
Monica De Guzman: Bakit hindi ka payag?
Respondent 6: Parehas po silang ano….
Monica De Guzman: Sa tingin mo, bakit kaya sila nagpapakasal or bakit nila pinipiling gawin
'yung ganung klase ng ano…
Respondent 6: Ayaw po nilang magka-anak.

Respondent 7: Ang alam ko, ang LGBT ay lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender.
Natasha Cole Itao: Ano pong pananaw ninyo tungkol sa mga kabilang dito?
Respondent 7: Anong pananaw? Para sa'kin ano.. okay naman 'yung LGBT. Gawa ng ano eh..
ano 'yun parang.. expression or 'yun talaga 'yung ano nila eh..nararamdaman syempre alangan
namang pigilan natin kung anong nararamdaman nila. Kung ganun sila, syempre bigyan din natin
ng kalayaan kasi magiging kasiyahan din naman nila ‘yun.
Natasha Cole Itao: Alam n'yo ba kung ano ang same sex marriage?
Respondent 7: Ano.. sa'king alam ang same sex marriage ay 'yung same sex, ibig sabihin parehas
lang ng gender. Sila 'yung mga gustong makaranas ng pagpapakasal.
Natasha Cole Itao: Meron pong research na isinagawa sa Pilipinas noong 2018, 2 sa 10 tao lamang
daw ang sumasang-ayon o pumapayag sa pagiging legal ng same sex marrige. Sang-ayon po ba
kayo sa same sex marriage? Bakit po?
Respondent 7: Ano.. sa akin sang ayon ako gawa ano eh..kahit ano..pero kung aanuhin talaga,
pero parang mukhang okay lang gawa ng choice nila 'yun eh diba bakit natin pipigilan? Saka
kasiyahan nila 'yun.

Flordeliza Lasat: Ano pong pananaw n'yo tungkol sa mga kabilang dito?

Respondent 8: Ah sa mga kabilang dito.. ano naman.. wala naman akong masamang masasabi sa
kanila kasi sila naman, as long ginagawa nila 'yung gusto nila nang hindi nakakasagabal sa ibang
tao, wala akong problema sa kanila

Flordeliza Lasat: Alam n'yo po ba kung ano ang same sex marriage?

Respondent 8: same sex... ah oo alam ko s'ya, ito 'yung dalawang..ano same sex tapos
magpapakasal sila, so parang ito 'yung kinukwestyon ng simbahan ngayon. Sa relasyon ng parehas
'yung gender, 'di ako nakontra, pero 'pag kasal? Dun ako kokontra, kasi ano.. bakit 'di nalang sila
makontento sa relasyon nila? Bakit kailangan pa ng kasal eh hindi naman 'yun 'yung will of God
natin diba?

Narration: Sang-ayon man ang mga mamayan o hindi, masasabi natin na hindi pa rin handa ang
taong bayan na tanggapin ang same sex marriage. Sa kabila ng lahat, kailangan pa din nating
irespeto ang mga opinyon ng bawat panig sa usaping ito. At kailangan din nating irespeto ang
mga taong lumalaban para dito.

Acknowledgement
Nais naming magpasalamat sa mga taong tumulong sa paggawa ng dokumentrayong ito. Mula sa
mga nagpa-interbyu hanggang sa mga kaklase naming tumulong sa amin. Maraming salamat sa
inyo.

Muli, pangkat apat:

-Kei Carlo Mayor

-Irah Isabella Dimayuga

-Imari Nicole Enderez

-Flordeliza Lasat

-Cinderella Magnaye

-Natasha Cole Itao

-Monica De Guzman

-Myca Vistal

*Narrated and edited by: Kei Carlo M. Mayor

*Transcribed by: Myca A. Vistal