This is the 24th edition of Metro Manila Pride. It attracted over 25,000 participants. Queer Asia - Philipines followed this year's Manila Pride and interviewed 9 LGBTQ+ members who are out and proud, to show the world the diverse stories within the community. Among them there is Sandy Aloba and Ida Ramos, two women that have lived an unimaginable struggle to adopt their son, Liam.


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Sandy and Ida were also at the Metro Manila Pride March. They think the public does not understand the true meaning of acceptance, even though they are no different from a heterosexual family. Sandy can only be a housemate to her son, who she loves so dearly. With all kinds of families nowadays, they believe the concept of conventional family does not exist anymore in this world.

As long as there is love, that makes the family, right? 

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Yi-min lives alone with her son, as her husband works away from home. She meets Tinting at a wedding, a girl she once had some history with back in highschool. Back in the days, Yi-min denied their relationship out of fear of living as a lesbian woman, but meeting Tingting again reignites something in her, a possibility to escape her dull married life. Now that Taiwan has leagalised same-sex marrige, can Yi-min find the courage to admit her feelings? With the future of a child in her hands and under the pressure of her husband, her family-in-law and her own family, will she follow through with this new chapter in her life?