LGBTQ members in Quezon town plant mangroves to celebrate ‘Pride Month’

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LUCENA CITY — The LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) community in General Luna town in Quezon province initiated a mangrove and coastal clean-up activity along the shore of Tayabas Bay to celebrate Pride Month.

“The environmental protection activity is their way of celebrating Pride Month,” Mayor Matt Erwin Florido said in an online interview Saturday.

Florido said local government officials, policemen, firemen, community environment and natural resources office, the Tau Gamma Phi fraternity, and other volunteers joined the more than 60 members of the local LGBTQ community in planting more than 1,000 mangrove propagules along the coast of Barangay Sta. Mari…

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