“May Boses Din Si Beki" (Sandra Aguinaldo Documentary)

Episode on April 4, 2011 Monday after Saksi! How can you be a "loud gay" when you are deaf? For the members of the Deaf Pink Club, being a deaf gay is an interesting oxymoron. Theirs is a culture within a culture, a minority within a minority. But they have found a way to represent themselves through a newly formed group of deaf gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals where each member bears a story of finding one’s identity in a world of silence. Creating their own gay sign language, they have found a way to speak out their identity – gay, loud and proud. For Carlos Calayan Jr., one of the members of the Deaf Pink Club, it was not easy growing up gay and deaf in a hearing family. His family never knew proper sign language and he was taunted in the neighborhood for being gay. It was a struggle to communicate with his parents who never wanted him to be gay. Yet the family slowly learned to accept him. She now comes out as “Carla," with a German boyfriend in tow. Unlike Carla, Noel felt he was never loved by his parents. Growing up, he suffered rejection for being ‘deaf and gay’ and alleged sexual abuses from men in his neighborhood. For the first time, he finally breaks his silence. This Monday, Sandra Aguinaldo joins deaf gays in a bittersweet journey of growing up, falling in love, and finding work as they "live it out loud" in a hearing world.