A Different Love

A Different Love: Being a Gay Man in the Philippines by @drmargieholmes, a paragraph from Foreword written by Prof. Eric Julian Manalastas, a popular, everybody-likes-him faculty of Psychology in UP. #goliwaliwph #june2018 #pages #lgbtpride pic.twitter.com/MrPRdJXouL

— glenncruz (@glenncruz) June 13, 2018

I tried my random number generator several times for a page between 1 and 191 but none of the results seemed to satisfy me. So for a snippet of text from A Different Love: Being a Gay Man in the Philippines by Margarita Go Singco-Holmes, Ph.D., I share a paragraph from one of two Forewords of the book, this one written by someone whom I personally know through my non-profit work in HIV and AIDS, Eric Julian Manalastas, who seems to me to be a popular as in everybody-likes-him faculty member of the Department of Psychology of the University of the Philippines.

This book is a second edition (2005). I had the first edition when I was in college, 1993, and boy, writing that down did make me feel authentically ancient for a moment. Anyway, I've lost my copy of the first edition: it's passed through so many barkadas' hands... and exes.

This month in liwaliw Pages, I pre-selected titles from my personal library for the June observance of LGBT Pride. Love wins.