Filipino Parents of LGBT in The Lens of Global Sustainability and Climate Justice Dissecting Filipino Values As Engage in Environmental Ethics
Filipino Parents of LGBT in The Lens of Global Sustainability and Climate Justice Dissecting Filipino Values As Engage in Environmental Ethics
Filipino Parents of LGBT in The Lens of Global Sustainability and Climate Justice Dissecting Filipino Values As Engage in Environmental Ethics
ABSTRACT
In this paper aims to view the multiple strands of Filipino parents of LGBT lived
experience and their interconnectedness to their value-contribution in terms of preserving
the environment and climate justice. Although this work is commutative, supportive and
governmental in issues, parents with LGBT children was able to prove its contribution to
the full realization of environmental preservation. Much work among parents like them
have done good that in the outset need not to be discriminated outdoing in terms of
sustaining ethical and moral practice of preserving the environs.
While most observers emphasized that parents who has LGBT children has that
silent lower degree of dignity as related to their children, how much more in contribution to
ecology and environmental concern, this work disproves such negative claim. Parents of
LGBT was able to achieve grounding their value-worth so concerned in the environmental
preservation based on human solidarity working in partnership with their family members,
relatives and governmental-civil society actors. This paper concludes that the Filipino
Parent of LGBT in the midst of their family condition and situation somehow contributed at
least a significant something to the strengthening, complementing and in sighting of the
radical standard of true practice of climate justice and environmental ethics.
Dr. Fatima Socorro Quianzon graduated from University of the Philippines Visayas
Tacloban College with a degree of AB Social Science in 1987. She took her Master’s
degree of Values Education at University of Asia and the Pacific in 1991. In 2011, she
attained her doctorate degree as Doctor of Philosophy from Eastern Visayas State
University- Main Campus where she now works as an Associate Professor V and the Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences.