The photo appeared to show them cuddling in bed together. Shortly after, a photo emerged of Stroem with his friend Marvin Agustin. However the social media storm didn’t end there.
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UnlockedĪnd the show’s producers had to request that PornHub remove ‘Markki Stroem Sex Scandal – full video’ from their platform. Markki Stroem and Mike Liwag’s sex scene. The scene showed Filipino-Norwegian star of the episode, Markki Stroem, with fellow actor Mike Liwag. Pirates took and distributed the scene on platforms including Twitter and PornHub within hours of it becoming available. While it does call for justice like a rainbow at the end of a storm, the last thing June Pride wants is a unicorn.A Filipino-Norwegian singer and actor has had to deny he’s in a relationship with a fellow actor after their on-screen sex scene leaked online. The awareness of the plight of the LGBT community that this annual observance engenders may be in danger of being diluted by rainbows being splashed on logos or shirts or shoes. It has been 52 years since the first Gay Pride march in New York. As Human Rights Watch, an international NGO headquartered in New York City, reported based on “interviews and group discussions conducted in 10 cities on the major Philippine islands of Luzon and the Visayas, equally discriminatory are seemingly harmless policies and practices in the learning environment that impose rigid gender rules on students through “gendered uniforms and dress codes, restrictions on hair length, gendered restrooms, classes and activities that differ for boys and girls, and close scrutiny of same-sex friendships and relationships.”
Harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, though included in the Child Protection Policy enacted by the Department of Education in 2012 and the Anti-Bullying Law ratified by Congress in 2013, is not the only problem. In a study published in 2018 by the UK-based Allied Academies in the Journal of Public Health Policy and Planning, it has been cited that “bullying and discrimination from families, communities, and schools” continue to be a problem, especially among LGBT students.
In the Philippines, considered a gay-friendly country, it’s not what it seems. In Myanmar, under the Police Act 1945, according to the non-profit Human Dignity Trust, the gender expression of trans people may be subject to a maximum penalty of three months’ imprisonment. In Singapore, there is a law instated in 1938 under British rule, Section 377A, criminalizing sexual relations between consenting men, which, though not strictly enforced, has yet to be overturned.
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In Brunei, for example, a penal code enacted only in 2019 now includes death by stoning for people found guilty of same-sex sexual activities.
Gay is good, gay is proud.” It represents the goal of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community, which has since expanded to LGBTQIA+ to include Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual/Agender-to either acknowledge the pride of its members in their sexual or gender identity or to reverse the feelings of shame and guilt triggered or caused by their experiences of exclusion, rejection, discrimination, or even assault in society.Īlthough with the excess of rainbows, glitter, and unicorns associated with the parties and parades of the occasion, as well as the explosion of homoerotic genres, such as boys’ love (BL), on mainstream media, there appears to be more support and solidarity for LGBTQIA+ causes, Pride month has yet to fully achieve its goal. “Pride” is said to have been derived from a slogan in the early New York gay rights marches, “Say it clear, say it loud.