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Charice’s mom: We knew

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RAQUEL said her daughter did not have to apologize. They are shown here before the storm, with Charice serenading her during her birthday celebration last year.

Raquel Pempengco, mother of international singer Charice, said she had accepted her estranged daughter “for who she is” and there was no need for the latter to apologize for being a lesbian.

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Charice admits she’s lesbian

Charice Pempengco file photo

International singing sensation Charice Pempengco admitted in a taped interview on “The Buzz” Sunday that she is a lesbian.

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Graphic gay sex stirs controversy at Cannes

From left, producer Lene Borglum, actor Matthew Newman, actress Kristin Scott Thomas, director Nicolas Winding Refn, actor Vithaya Pansringarm, and musician Cliff Martinez listen during a press conference for the film Only God Forgives at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. AP

Explicit gay sex has hit the big screen at the Cannes film festival in movies targeting mainstream audiences that stir controversy and spare the viewer nothing.

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Playing gay is on to-do list of award-winning actor Ronnie Lazaro

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ON THE set of “Juana Change the Movie” (from left): writer-producer Raymond Lee, actors Ronnie Lazaro and Mae Paner and director Jade Castro

Ronnie Lazaro, the award-winning actor who bared all as a live-sex performer in Tikoy Aguiluz’s 1985 drama film “Boatman,” dons an archbishop’s robes in Jade Castro’s forthcoming comedy “Juana Change the Movie.”

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Jodie Foster reveals she’s gay, suggests she’s retiring

Actress Jodie Foster poses in the press room with her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes awards ceremony in Beverly Hills on January 13, 2013.    AFP /ROBYN BECK

Jodie Foster came out without really coming out, and suggested she was retiring from acting without exactly saying so, in a long, breathless and rambling speech at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards.

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Ricky Martin wishes he could come out again

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MARTIN essays Che with a wry grin and a twinkle in his eye. He carries himself with abundant charm and stage presence. (photo credit:evitaonbroadway.com)

Latin superstar Ricky Martin is telling a U.N. conference on homophobia that he wishes he could come out again so he could tell people struggling with their identities that “it’s just beautiful — you find love.”

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Robin on BB

Robin Padilla has to close his eyes when he sees brother BB Gandanghari in a sexy dress (from Reggee Bonoan’s column in the Nov. 6 issue of  Inquirer tabloid Bandera). He said: “I have no more problem with his new persona. But just because I have accepted, it doesn’t mean he should be parading in [...]

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Madonna sued in Russia for $10M over gay support

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Several Russian activists have filed a 10-million-dollar lawsuit against Madonna, claiming they were offended by the pop diva’s support of homosexuals during her recent show, their lawyer said Monday.

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‘Proud’ CNN host Anderson Cooper confirms he is gay

Anderson Cooper. AP

CNN presenter and journalist Anderson Cooper outed himself as gay Monday, saying he “couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.”

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Janet Jackson to produce transgender documentary

Brainchild Films announced Monday June 4, 2012 that Jackson would produce and conduct on-screen interviews for an upcoming documentary on transgender people around the world titled “Truth.” AP FILE PHOTO

Janet Jackson has signed on as an executive producer of a documentary on the lives of transgender people around the world.

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Anti-bullying teen, ‘DWTS,’ Gaga get GLAAD award

Lady Gaga. AP FILE PHOTO

A teenager, who is campaigning to make it easier for children to see a documentary about bullying, is among the winners of this year’s Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards.

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QC gov’t to award most gender sensitive film in MMFF

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The Quezon City government will be recognizing one of the entries in this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival for promoting gender equality through the silver screen.

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