Published May 22, 2021, 12:37 PM Senator Grace Poe is pushing the passage of a bill that would declare a day in the month May as “National Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia and Phobias for Persons of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity or Expression or Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC)”. (PIXABAY) In the Senate Bill No. 2213 she filed recently, Poe sought the recognition of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBT+) community on May 17 of every year in the Philippines. It was on May 17, 1990 that the World Health Organization (WHO) declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder, after decades of campaign from activists, doctors and medical practitioners.