Tonette Lopez
{{Short description|Filipino activist}}
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| birth_place = Oras, Eastern Samar, Philippines
| death_date = April 25, 2006
| death_place = Manila, Philippines
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| occupation = Transactivist
| yearsactive = 2000-2006
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Tonette Lopez (died April 25, 2006) was the first transgender woman activist in the Philippines and a popular Asian LGBT activist, HIV/AIDS researcher and journalist.
Lopez led the 16th International AIDS Conference in 2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=49968 |title=Sex workers on frontline of Asia's AIDS battle - Express India |website=www.expressindia.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923023857/http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=49968 |archive-date=2012-09-23}}
Gahum Philippines
In 2001, Lopez started the Gay Human Rights Movement (GAHUM), based in Cebu City.
Lopez has stated: "Discrimination is very eminent. A country such ours, which is predominantly Roman Catholic is very difficult. Opinions and decisions are always coiled and intertwined with one's religiosity, belief and faith."{{Cite web |url=http://www.tsphilippines.com/transgenderrights.htm |title=STRAP | Transgender Rights Are Human Rights |access-date=2009-03-19 |archive-date=2007-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021232849/http://www.tsphilippines.com/transgenderrights.htm |url-status=dead }}
See also
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External links
- {{Cite web | url=http://apnsw.org/r/lopez.htm | title=Tonette Lopez, APNSW's human rights expert and singing star died from complications related to diabetes | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716212153/http://apnsw.org/r/lopez.htm |archive-date=2006-07-16 }}
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.tsphilippines.com/tonette.htm | title=In Memory of The Heroine of Our Time| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021232729/http://www.tsphilippines.com/tonette.htm |archive-date=2007-10-21 }}
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/smmt-2/lopez2.html | title=CORE PARTICIPANTS - Ms. Tonette LOPEZ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923043330/http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/smmt-2/lopez2.html | archive-date=2008-09-23}}
- {{Cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525033526/http://progay.multiply.com/journal | archive-date=2009-05-25 | url=http://progay.multiply.com/journal | title=CASIÑO TO GAY, LESBIAN SOLONS: Come out and push passage of anti-discrimination bill}}
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.tsphilippines.com/transgenderrights.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021232849/http://www.tsphilippines.com/transgenderrights.htm |archive-date=2007-10-21 | title=Transgender Rights Are Human Rights}}
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Category:Filipino transgender women
Category:Filipino LGBTQ rights activists
Category:Filipino women activists
Category:Year of birth missing
Category:People from Eastern Samar
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