Ang pag-amin ni True Faith lead vocalist Medwin Marfil bilang miyembro ng LGBTQIA+ community
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I've always known I'm gay ever since I was a kid.
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But of course, because of yung ating environment sa society,
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most of us, sigurado, we grew up in a very conservative setting.
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And lalo nung I got into the music scene,
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unang-una, introvert pa ako.
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So being on stage, biglang I was thrust into the limelight,
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So nung 1993, when the first album came out,
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and we had to do gigs, I had to be on stage,
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I had to talk to people on stage.
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Nakakatakot kasi, unang-una, yung introvert ako.
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I'm a very private person.
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And you know, you bare your soul every time you sing on stage.
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So tejo, it was unnerving most of the time.
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nandoon na rin yung fact na parang,
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because of who I am, you know,
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I was scared to be,
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I was scared of people finding out that I'm gay.
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Because we know that...
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Even the fact of your status in society.
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it was a different climate dati.
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And this was back in the 90s.
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It was different back then, yes.
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Yeah, it was very different.
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Um, this was like many years before Queer Eye for the Straight Guy came on TV.
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So, ibang-iba talaga.
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So, it took me a long time to be comfortable with myself on stage.
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And eventually then, you know, people in show business,
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people in the band scene knew about me.
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And they've known for a long time.
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So, people who are close to me,
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family, friends, and mga artist na...
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Nakilala talaga ako.
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They've known all this time.
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So, it's been an open secret in the business.
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Pero, hindi talaga totally dagalo.
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It wasn't like, parang hindi siya talaga kakibat ng art namin as a band eh.
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Kasi, of course, through fate, isn't only me.
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It's also the other band members.
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So, I didn't feel like I had to like put it in front there.
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Kasi, it wasn't like...
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Um, yeah, it informs my personality and who I am as a...
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a person, as a character.
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But, um, hindi ko na-feel na talagang it's necessary.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I did an interview dati sa Pulp Magazine.
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And I said, to borrow the phrase of mga millennials here,
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I already said back then I was sexually fluid, gano'n.
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Pero, I guess nobody was interested in the article.
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No one learned about it.
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So, I'm like, okay, nobody cared.
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But now, you know, everybody's talking about it.
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Um, so technically, Medwin,
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when you posted this photo of your marriage,
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ito na rin yung parang coming out party mo?
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Um, parang gano'n na nga eh.
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Pero, parang ayoko sanang yun ang ano.
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I'm more proud for this, you know, for...
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At this moment, I'm really more proud of what we have than...
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So, it's really about our marriage.
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And it's not like, oh, Medwin just came out.
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It's more like, hey, Med found somebody and they're in love.
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And I'm very proud of it.
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I'm very happy about it.
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That's why I just can't contain it eh.
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Days after, a couple of days after we got married,
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parang pinag-uusapan pa rin na kami.
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Because, you know, we don't know how the people's gonna...
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Kung paano tatanggap yan ng...
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At saka concern ko din, syempre si Mark, di ba?
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Hindi siya ready na mapag-uusapan ng ganyan.
