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It has been a while since I last posted a personal entry on my blog. I have been consumed by some issues at work, issues with life and also this very interesting blog that I stumbled upon.

I've read this blog a few days ago and decided not to write about it. But it bugged me so much and I really wanted everyone to know, not in the form of gossip but for information purposes. Its really very embarrassing and quite sad for every gay Filipino to read about things like this. Brian Gorrell hails from Australia and met DJ Montano, a member of the "Gucci Gang" apparently one of the high society groups in the Philippines.

To cut the long story short, DJ swindled Brian a whopping $70,000.00 through the course of their 8 month relationship. DJ convinced Brian to send him money regularly for a restaurant business that they are trying to invest on with the help of Celine Lopez. Since the "Lopez" clan is involved (one of the most affluent families in the Philippines), this is where everything becomes really juicy. Brian then moved to the Philippines, setting house in Boracay, he found out that there was no restaurant business, his money gone because it was just spent mostly for drug use and partying, and that DJ was cheating on him. He asked for his money back. Of course there was no money. So the entire high society gang made sure that Brian was deported back to Australia. Brian now has no money, aside from sending most of it to DJ, he also spent a considerable amount of money relocating to the Philippines. Oh and he's HIV positive.

Now, he started a blog. And he started spilling all the juicy, nasty and scandalous details of the high society life in the Philippines. Starting off with DJ, Celine Lopez down to all the members of the Gucci Gang. He then moved on to the families of DJ and Celine. In an effort to collect his $70k. He said he will keep on blogging and spilling more information until he gets his money back.

The blog has been threading on very dangerous waters since he included the Lopez clan. He's been getting death threats, Philippine consulate went to his house in Australia, confiscated his computer and jailed him for a day.

I hate to think how the world sees homosexuals and the kind of relationship that we have. As it is, the general notion of being gay is still tainted with a lot of negative factors. As we fight for our rights and equality, as we try to convince the universe that we are normal human beings capable of having a relationship based on true love and moreso worthy of respect from everyone, a story like Brian and DJ would come out. And we all know how the world reacts to stories like this. Its like wild fire going through a dry forest on a hot summer day. Hasty generalizations would come up and we could never change the way they think anymore.

So there. Read up on it on DJ Montano.