Close Up Lovapalooza Discriminates Same Sex Relationships

Posted by Sharlyne Ang | Filed under Anti-LGBT, personal

I for one experienced that myself.

My partner and I were given VIP tickets by someone from San Miguel Beer the night before the Lovapalooza (Valentine’s Party Friday night in Ortigas). Since Pupil, one of my favorite bands will be performing, my partner and I decided to attend the event even though we will be coming from Taytay, Rizal in the afternoon and number 2, there will be lots of people there. It’s free anyway, so we went for it.

We came from Taytay to attend a press event for the opening of an events place there. Most of our time was spent travelling. Imagine, we left Sta. Mesa at 11:30 am, arrived there at 2:00 pm then stayed there for about an hour, left Taytay at 3:00 pm. Since we were given gift baskets by the organizer of the event, we decided to bring it home to Sta. Mesa first because it will be such a hassle bringing those big baskets to SM Mall of Asia. So we left Sta. Mesa at 6:45 pm and arrived at MOA around 7:30 pm. We can hear Bamboo performing so we decided to eat inside the concert venue itself since there will be food booths there for sure. Since we already have the VIP tickets, we headed straight to the entrance. The entrances are divided into 2: for couples and for singles. Since we are really a couple, we lined up at the couples entrance. WE WERE DENIED OF ENTRY BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE LADY GUARD, WE ARE NOT A COUPLE. I asked why and she said that “DAPAT BABAE AT LALAKE” (Couple should be man and woman). WOW! This is outright DISCRIMINATION. Because she denied us on entering the couples area premises, we entered at the singles entrance. I observed that the gay/lesbian couples are in the singles area. It’s like, WHAT the F*CK??!!! Also, the decent food booths were are the couples area and Mcdo was the only thing in the Singles area. We are already hungry and would want something like TGI Fridays or something like that. Only heterosexual couples were allowed to go in and out of the couples area toward the singles area but not vice versa. If a same sex couple decides to buy something from the other side, one of them would have to go there alone. We were so upset so we decided to ditch the event and go to UCC which was at the second floor of the mall. It has a better view because it has a video wall, we were seated comfortably and most of all NO ONE WAS DISCRIMINATING US.

It’s very clear that the organizers of this “exclusively heterosexual” event is explicitly denying OUR EXISTENCE as human beings who like “THEM” express romantic love to one another. I hope that they change this kind of practice because they are only spreading homophobia, bigotry and most of all IGNORANCE. Sometimes you can’t blame some LGBTs for being heterophobic as well because of this kind of discrimination. They should learn some basic MANNERS. LEARN TO RESPECT SO THAT YOU WILL ALSO BE RESPECTED.

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Permalink | February 16th, 2009

4 Responses to “Close Up Lovapalooza Discriminates Same Sex Relationships”

  1. bznz Says:
    February 17th, 2009 at 12:02 am

    i love the previous lovapaloozas because it’s for all (remember the baywalk events). you wont be designated to couples or singles, heteros or homos.

    as long as you are there with someone or a bunch of friends, you can jam all thru the event…

    i hope this wont happen in the next lovapalooza, which is projected to just have a population of half who attended this year. i mean, theres quite a number of us, same sex couples, who attend this event.

    i dont know, but maybe we can make a difference. we still have another year to prepare for the next lovapalooza.

  2. mae Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 1:08 am

    please next time call for a boycott to those kind of events kasi the sole purpose of those events is just to promote their product and make it a commodity. at sana lang yung blog mo ginamitan mo ng marxist analysis para mas reliable bilang socio graduate ka right? ibandera mo ang mga UP socio graduates!

  3. Rockerfem Sha Says:
    February 21st, 2009 at 2:31 am

    @mae,

    teh, so you mean to say na hindi ako reliable because I don’t use the marxist perspective?? hmm i think that is limiting your mind my dear. And also, you are limiting all sociology majors. HINDI LANG PO SI MARX ANG KILALA NAMIN. Marami pa sila. Kung kilala mo lang si Marx at ang perspektibong ginagamit niya kasi mainstream sa UP at siguro sa kolehiyo mo eh sorry, kami kasi hindi naglilimita lang sa iisa. Oo, pwede siyang iexplika ng marxist perspective pero hindi ko ginawa kasi obvious na diba? Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan? hindi ko din kailangan na magpadikta sa ibang tao kung anong perspektibo ang kailangan kong gamitin.

    I am explaining the facts of what happened at that time and what became the point of discussion here is our denial of entry in the event. Most likely isolated incident ako kasi I DID NOT BUY THE TICKET KASI IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY SOMEONE FROM SAN MIGUEL BEER, one of the sponsors. So I did not tackle the issue of that commodity shit kasi hindi ko naman alam ang proseso ng pagpasok don na hindi nakakuha ng VIP ticket. Anyway, I discussed (if you have read my blog post), DISCRIMINATION. You’re a member of UP Babaylan like, you should know that by heart.

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