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The Philippine socialist period was made into a strange (general term for all LGBTI + identities) crime and mental disorders. The attitude of those times was still very dangerous and spilled in systematic discrimination against strange people in all areas of life, with many cases of hate crimes being handled by the community regularly. The LGBT Center, the first and only LGBTI human rights organization in the Philippines, has been championed since 2010 for a hate crime rule, and got it: now it is a crime to discriminate against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity, with strict hatred of effective crime rules August 1, 2017. But the mere existence of law does not guarantee regular automatic elimination: this is only the beginning, and public information and advocacy remain key.