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- Heart Evangelista and Tootsy Angara wore rainbow pins at SONA 2018.
- The pins symbolize their support for the SOGIE or Anti-Discrimination Bill.
Apart from the President‘s speech, one of the things that the Filipino people look forward to at the annual The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is the fashion sense of each politicians and other attending personalities.
Tootsy Angara, wife of Sen. Juan Edgardo ‘Sonny’ Angara and Heart Evangelista, wife of Sen. Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero, both wore rainbow pins to complete their attires.
Evangelista posted on her Instagram account regarding the meaning of her pin attached to the upper left side of her Filipiniana dress.
She wrote that it is in support of the SOGIE bill, also known as the Anti-Discrimination Bill, which aims to protect the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. She added that she and her husband are in full support of the said bill.
Everyone has the right to live, work, and dream. The SOGIE bill is a step in the right direction to guarantee the protection of those rights, especially for our friends in the LGBTQIA+ community. Last year the bill made great progress but we still have a long way to go. My husband and I are in full support of this bill and hope to see it move forward and become a law. #sona2018 #LoveIsAllWeNeed
Angara also shared a photo on Instagram and expressed her support for the SOGIE bill.
Getting ready for #sona2018
Wearing this pin to show my all out support for the Anti Discrimination Bill as I join the call to fight for equality and end all forms of discrimination,” Imagine a world where you will not be judged for race, gender, faith, ethnicity..
Where love can flow freely
“Imagine a world where people use their powers not to create conditions of oppression that lead to violence, but conditions of freedom that lead to peace”
The SOGIE bill was passed by the Congressmen for its third and final reading. If the bill successfully becomes a law, it will then be illegal to “out” or reveal a person’s sexual orientation without his or her consent. It will also be illegal to engage in discriminatory speech that insults and vilifies the practices of the LGBTQ community, deny the LGBTQ community access to private medical and health services because their gender, as well as force them to take psychological examination as a mean of determining or altering their sexual orientation.
