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COCKTALES
First transgender candidate seeks to make
congressional history amid religious unease
THERE had been one gay senator was given traction by a national European partner.
and at least a couple of closet queens government official based in Bataan, She is also listed as having served as President Aquino with Geraldine Roman seated to his left. through a trusted aide, is negotiating
in the House but, for the first time, a who said “some bishops” were to acquire a Salcedo Village building,
transgender is making local history uncomfortable with Geraldine running chief of staff of her mother in Congress. and departures also to late evenings, purportedly to relocate all non-SMC
– or is it her story – by seeking a for Congress and, in the event that According to a relative, Geraldine’s instead of the current mornings. businesses of RSA under one roof in
congressional seat. she wins, the increased prospects of Makati.
the transgender agenda being given causes are more the socioeconomic Beginning March 28, the four-
And instead of being a fringe wider latitude and possibly even legal concerns of a local politician, rather times-a-week Manila-Vancouver-JFK RSA himself had been to the
LGBTQ candidate, the transgender is recognition in Congress. than equal-sexuality rights that top the flight will now arrive New York at building, one of the first to be built in
being supported by the two dominant LGBTQ movement around the world. 10:30 p.m. and will turn around and Salcedo Village, marveling not only
political families in Bataan, the Garcias “I think the filing of a legal challenge depart at 12:15 am. at the size and the appointments of
and the Romans, she being a member (against Geraldine’s candidacy) is “She is actually demure, not the the board room and the executive
of the Roman family, no less. in the works,” added former SBMA loud-mouth, arms-flailing stereotype The new schedule means that offices but even at the redevelopment
chairman Felicito Payumo, declining that has been associated with gays,” the dedicated Boeing 777-300ER potentials of the 2,850-square-meter
Still, Geraldine Roman, who is to elaborate. the relative, speaking on condition of aircraft will leave Manila at 3 p.m., property on which the low-rise
seeking the first district seat being anonymity, said. and will arrive at the Ninoy Aquino building stands. n Victor C. Agustin / December
vacated by her mother, Herminia Payumo, who used to be the International Airport on the return leg
Roman, is apparently in for a tough congressman for the first district, said In two separate blog accounts, at 9:45 am. 28, 2015 / 1:33 pm
fight, and not only coming from her he was supporting the other candidate Geraldine was reported to have
declared opponent, local contractor in his electoral battle with Roman. attended, on behalf of her mother, the Heard through the grapevine. San
and current Hermosa Mayor Danilo opening of an inter-Bataan basketball Miguel president Ramon S. Ang,
Malana. Despite her political provenance, games and the inauguration of the
very little is publicly known about the trade department’s Negosyo Center.
A member of the Couples for Christ transgender Roman.
and Christian Family Movement, In another account, the transgender
Geraldine’s mother told the provincial According to provincial press was even reported as a guest speaker
press that she has had to forego of her accounts, she had successfully in a Holy Week-related function of
plan to seek the vice governorship legalized her gender status from man the Diocese of Antipolo, where she
in order to help with Geraldine’s to woman, including amending the discussed the nuances of dressing the
campaign “because of the Catholic birth certificate. statue of the Virgin Mary.
Church’s unsupportive stance on
transgender sexuality.” She listed her profession as a PAL re-aligns New York sked.
journalist, having been schooled in
This account of religious unease Spain’s Universidad del Pais Vasco, Aligning itself with the schedule of
where she apparently met her code-share partner China Airlines
and other regional carriers, Philippine
Airlines will adjust its New York arrivals
