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MANILA GOVERNMENT MAKES HISTORY, SPONSORS GAY BEAUTY PAGEANT

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Manila Mayor Joseph Rstrada, center, presents the candidates of Miss Gay Manila 2015
Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, center, presents the candidates of Miss Gay Manila 2015

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – The Philippines is making history with the launch of the first Miss Gay Manila in the nation’s capital.

Having a gay beauty pageant is far from being a first. What makes Miss Gay Manila 2015 one for the record is that the pageant is sponsored by no less than the government. Now that would make Miss Universe Pageant owner Donald Trump nervous and threatened.

At today’s press presentation of the candidates, Manila Mayor (and former Philippines president) Joseph Estrada was on hand to give a kiss to each aspiring beauty queen.

The grand coronation will be held at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on May 20, 2015.

“The most energetic, witty, optimistic and confident candidate can get a chance to be crowned as the first ever winner of this prestigious pageant that promotes equality among all genders,” Estrada told reporters.

Estrada received a thunderous applause when he announced that the winner of this pageant will represent the City of Manila in the next Miss Philippines contest to choose the country’s representative to the 2016 Miss Universe Pageant.

Prizes at stake are P500,000 cash for the Grand Winner of Miss Gay Manila 2015, P200,000 for the First Runner-up and P100,000 for the Second Runner-up. The prize winnings will be exempted from local government taxes. However, they will be subject to national government tax by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), according to BIR Commissioner Kim Henares.

Government, LGBT, Same-sex Marriage

IN LUXEMBOURG, GAY MEN RULE!

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L-R: Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and First Man?
L-R: Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and First Gentleman?

LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg (The Adobo Chronicles) – Luxembourg is a small European country with a population of just 550,000. It is a founding member of the European Union, NATO and the United Nations. The city of Luxembourg, which is the capital and largest city, is the seat of several institutions and agencies of the EU.

In June of last year, Luxembourg’s Parliament  legalized same-sex marriage by a landslide vote of 56-4. The new law went into effect last January.

That is not what’s amazing about the country. Rather, it is the fact that it is now ruled by gay men. Its prime minister, Xavier Bettel, is openly gay and so is its deputy prime minister, Etienne Schneider.

Luxembourg’s gayness will even be more prominent when Bettel marries his same-sex partner, architect Gauthier Destenay, this week.  The couple has been civil partners since 2010.

It hasn’t been decided how Destenay will be called.

Could it be First Gentleman? First Man? First Spouse?

LGBT, Same-sex Marriage

HOW TO GET A LICENSE IN STATES THAT BAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ACCORDING TO MILEY CYRUS

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Cyrus (Photo credit: dailydot.com)
Cyrus (Photo credit: dailydot.com)

DALLAS, Texas (The Adobo Chronicles) – Same-sex marriage is now legal in 37 states.  So what can a gay couple do to get a marriage license in a state like Texas?  Singer Miley Cryrus has the answer.

Cyrus has managed to raise lots of eyebrows when she went public about her sexuality. She does not have any gender identity.  Short of calling herself genderqueer,  Cyrus said “I kind of wanted to be nothing. I don’t relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy.”

In other words, ‘decline to state.’

In California and other states, any voter who does not identify with either the Republican or Democratic Party can mark the box, “decline to state’ in the voter registration form.

“You can do the same when filling out the marriage license application,” Cyrus said.  Where it asks for the name of the groom or the bride, Cyrus’ advice is to just cross it out, write your name and add ‘decline to state’ beside it.

“By doing so, the state cannot discriminate against you since technically, your marriage is gender neutral and will not be in violation of any ban against same-sex marriage,” she added.

So if you are a gay couple wanting to get married in one of the 13 non-equality states, you don’t have to wait for the any ruling on same-sex marriage cases now pending with the U.S. Supreme Court.

You can get married now!