The month of June is the month of pride, often celebrated by the LBGT community, but straight people hardly ever notice. So this is a shout out to Ben Chan’s future-forward Bench and it’s awesome campaign celebrating pride month.
On B/Blog, not only did people remember, but they took notice, learned a thing or two, and let out a laugh. #100happygays? Loving the hashtag, Bench!
It’s four-part special, spread over the first two weeks of June, features the many faces of gays and lesbians in the country—100 of them, including popular names in the creative industries like makeup artist Jigs Mayuga, who was shot kissing his equally hot boyfie George Defiesta.
Other names we’re really happy to see are creative director Tatum Ancheta, TodayxFuture scenester Austin Castañeda, Ateneo de Manila’s fabled Dollhouse bench, Metro’s Patrick Ty, Esquire Philippines’ Jerome Gomez, Rogue’s Don Jaucian, and Patty and Kat of Deuce Manila.
“Tomorrow will be the last of the series,” says the feature producer Paolo Lorenzana over FB messenger, “and we’re real proud of that one because we have a transman (woman who is now a man) but actually likes men—so a gay transman.” There will also a gay father and more cute couples.
But enough of the talk. Swing by B/Blog and check out the story series yourself.
