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Notable People of Filipin@ Ancestry
Preciosa Caballero (aka Anggoran)

Preciosa, also known as ‘Susa’ or Anggoran, her native name, was a 73 year old babaylan, (priestess) and epic chanter from the Barangay, Garangan, in Calinong, Iloilo, Panay who passed away in December of 1993.

She is one of the many epic chanters to be recorded and contributed in the help of preserving epics from Panay. On a journey and mission to record 9 other epics following the Filipin@ folklorist and anthropologist, Dr. Felipe Landa Jocano,  Alicia P. Magos from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, with her research assistant and guide, and with funding from the French government, met Anggoran and from August to November of 1993, Anggoran was recorded when she spoke lines of two epics, Humadapnon sa Tarangban (which is recited for 24 hours) and Derikaryong Pada (recited in 7 hours).

During those months she would sing lines from the epics for 10 minutes at a time and would rest. Due to her old age Alicia Magos gave her plenty of time to chant at her leisure. Anggoran would chant when she felt like it and was inspired to, at times waking up at dawn around 4 in the morning to chant and be recorded.

At the end of November of 1993 she finished recording both the epics, but unfortunately she passed away in December of that year leaving at least 2 other epics she knew about and spoke of to be unrecorded.

Photo Source: The Online Ateneo Philippine Epics and Ballads Archive

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First of all, there is a clear distinction between a “gay pride parade” and a “Lady Gaga parade (or more appropriately Ball)”. Both can be freaky but we know which one is freakier.

Second, she is part of us. LGBT… she’s in the B and she has admitted this so many many times.

Third, she does not stand for the whole community, not even try to represent it as her own. Her intentions are merely to give her stand on bullying and lend a hand in helping others who are bullied through her music and visuals. If she ever mentions the community, she doesn’t say that she wants to be their queen or be the image of it but rather help it in its struggles to progress and she does this in her own way - presenting a solution we have heard so many times “be yourself” by glorifying the Other so many times in her career.

So fourth, she is not flaunting herself as a “gay icon”.

Fifth, she has been bullied. Her climb to a career in pop music (artists know this very well) is torture. And even before and after that, she has been ridiculed for being a freak. She worked hard to be accepted and to start recording a single track. Born this Way does not mean Born Gay. The song may have several incorrect claims but let’s not forget that it does not only address gays but anyone or even everyone who has ever been marginalized or oppressed. Again, your claim that she “don’t know shit about being born this way” is untrue - she is a woman and she, like us gays (even though she’s white and in a higher class), is also marginalized by this society.

It’s just a pop song written with a clear intention, it doesn’t proclaim itself as anything glorifying.

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