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The Philippines is known to have the biggest gay pride celebrations in South East Asia despite being its only Catholic country. Some Filipino historians explain this by claiming that the Philippines' precolonial society accepted LGBT+ before its Christianization. What's the basis of this claim?

by /u/kinapudno in /r/AskHistorians

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