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Mar 20, 2007
Quickie Link: Gay-lesbian group makes last-ditch poll bid
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By vanrozenheim
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(Phillipines) - Ang Ladlad, a party-list group representing gays and lesbians, on Tueday made a final appeal to the Commission on Elections to allow it to take part in the May 14 elections. Ang Ladlad president Danton Remoto, a noted gay writer, said in an interview that he personally spoke with Comelec commissioners in a bid to persuade them to accredit the party-list group. "I felt that some of the commissioners could be sympathetic to our cause so I made a last minute verbal appeal, because we already filed our motion for reconsideration," Remoto said.
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