Charice’s mom: We knew
By Allan Policarpio
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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.”
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 [...]

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.

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

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

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.
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.