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Third World Romance is a 2023 Filipino romance film about two blue-collar workers who meet during the Covid pandemic. The film, directed by Dwein Baltazar and starring Carlo Aquino and Charlie Dizon, won several awards and was screened at the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
Bakla and bading are Tagalog words for a man who has feminine mannerisms, or dresses or identifies as a woman. Although the terms are not the equivalent of the English "gay", [26] the bakla are the most culturally visible subset of gay men in the Philippines. They are often considered a third gender, embodying femininity (pagkababae) in a male ...
A poem about the love of one's native language, often attributed to José Rizal, but possibly a hoax. The poem contains the famous line "Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling wika, masahol pa sa hayop at malansang isda", meaning "He who knows not to love his own language, is worse than beasts and putrid fish".
Alice Guo is a businesswoman and former politician who served as the mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, from June 2022 to August 2024. She was accused of being a Chinese spy, involved in illegal gambling and other criminal activities, and fled the Philippines in July 2024, but was arrested and deported back in September 2024.
The Third Party is a 2016 Filipino romantic comedy drama film starring Angel Locsin, Sam Milby and Zanjoe Marudo. It is about a love triangle involving an ex-couple and a gay pediatrician, and was a box office hit in the Philippines.
Diosdado Macapagal was a Filipino lawyer, poet and politician who served as the ninth President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965. He introduced land reform, liberalized foreign exchange and import controls, and shifted Independence Day to June 12.
Bayaning 3rd World is a 2000 Filipino mockumentary film by Mike de Leon about the life and legacy of José Rizal. The film explores the controversy of Rizal's retraction of his anti-Catholic views and the different concepts of the national hero.
Jose Maria Sison was a Filipino communist leader who founded the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army. He was a poet, activist, and professor who lived in exile in the Netherlands until his death in 2022.