THE Quezon City’s Pride Council of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender from the city’s 142 barangays will convene on Tuesday at 1 p.m. to consider the needs of this sector, and integrate programs and projects at the grassroots level.
Mayor Herbert Bautista gave the 142 barangay chairmen in the city until Aug. 31 to create their own pride councils.
“What the city is doing right now is to make sure that all LGBTQ communities shall be organized,” he said.
Bautista issued a memorandum circular, directing the barangay operations center to inform the barangay officials and the other stakeholders about the Aug. 29 meeting.
He said whatever measures to be adopted by the pride council must be submitted to the 36-member city council for notification.
According to Bautista, the city government has adopted a stick-and-carrot approach to recognize outstanding institutions and corporations which employ conscious efforts that protect and enhance the rights of the LGBT community.
“The mayors wants the involvement of the media to share their inputs on gender awareness in relation to their work,” city architect Pedro Rodriguez Jr. told the Manila Standard.
To enable the barangay pride council to operate, Bautista said, the city government will provide an annual budget to finance the gender and development plans and programs of the barangays.