On Catholic Church and Sexual Pleasures

I always wondered why the church has always frowned upon humans enjoying their sexuality. Is this because sexual pleasure could potentially be an overwhelming distraction for people? Could sexual pleasure weaken the need to seek god?

On Faith and Evolution

Faith in a supreme being binds multitude of people. And the more united people are, the better will it be for our survival.
Could this be faith’s evolutionary value?

Lex Bonife Lectures at La Salle

This writer has been invited by De La Salle University’s Mr. Ronald Gue of the Literature department to speak to their students regarding my written works for the gay community. It will be my first time to speak in front of students outside of my school UP Diliman, and I am honestly quite nervous.
It is [...]

Lex Bonife Named as one of the “Movers and Shakers” of the “Gay Community”

Outragemag.com, the only gayzine in the Philippines has honored this writer as one of the “movers and shakers” of the gay community or to be more politically correct, the GLBTQI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual and the Intersexed) population.
I feel rewarded by being recognized along with other prominent personalities from the Filipino Gay Scene (Fr. Richard [...]

“Lex Bonife: A Conversation”

I was honored to be interviewed by Victor Hoff, an American writer on sex and culture. Victor has been a contributor to Unzipped, Flavalife Magazine, The Sword and The Huffington Post as well as a featured blogger for Treasure Island Media (under the nom de guerre “The Pornographist”) and Gawker Media’s Fleshbot. Mr. Hoff routinely [...]

Breakup

It’s official. The “Supreme Court of Relationships” has issued its decision on my one year and three month relationship, I and my former partner, JDG are now separated.
 
I am again, single.
 
Many dreams and hopes have also drained away as we have both decided to split up. For more than a month, my partner has [...]

Truth is Over Rated

 

My usual conversation with gay friends is normally punctuated by exaggeration, fantasies, hyperboles, rumours and all variations of that much feared term – lies.
 
Then one of my friends posed a very confronting question, “Bakit puro tayo ka-echosan”(Why are we so fond of silly talk?)
 
And without thinking, I just blurted out, “That’s because truth is over-rated”.
 
I [...]

Of God and Blow Jobs

I bumped into screenwriter Ramon Bayron (Abakada, Ina) and he was ecstatic to share his thoughts on our film “Ang Lihim ni Antonio” (Antonio’s Secret). He liked the existentialism of the material and all. I was surprised that Mr. Bayron liked the film despite him being very religious. And he caught me by surprise by [...]

Brainy Surprises

 
The human brain is one of the most fascinating things in the universe. And this is held true by the book “Phantoms of the Brain” by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran. In this brilliant account of different cases on neurology, Ramachandran gives us a peek into the inner workings of the human mind — how we deceive [...]

Antonio’s Secret in New York

Our film Antonio’s Secret (directed by Joselito Altarejos) will have its international premiere in Rochester, New York on October 13, 2008. Here’s a statement from one of the reviewers at the Image Out Festival.
 
“Join us for the International Premiere of a controversial film that proves once again that not all gay films from the Philippines [...]