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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

A Slice of Philippine Gay Pride Parade History and Then Some

The first gay pride march in the country, spearheaded by ProGay Philippines, was held in 1994. Attendees were estimated to be around 50 ...

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Boys Love in China

The 2016 BL (boys love) series Addicted garnered 10 million views on its first day of showing and 100 million views within a month. The...

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Mandarin and Mermen

Pinyin is the system that converts Chinese (Mandarin) words (sounds) into the Roman alphabet that we use in English. Mainland China (People...

Via

Via is a Latin word that means road, way, etc. It is pronounced we ah or we ya (we as in "we the people"). I haven't retired ...

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About Me

Robert Baytan: I am a physician by profession but a perpetual learner by vocation. I am into a number of things including, but not limited to, history (especially comic book and ancient history) and cognitive science (especially the science of memory). I maintain this blog but have not been writing much lately. I still have lots of drafts that need editing, and these drafts may never find their way into the blog. These days, my posts in Blogger are spur-of-the-moment write-ups. However, you will know intuitively the write-up is premeditated when you see numerous carefully arranged notes and references. I was baptized Roman Catholic but was educated in a born-again high school, so I became a fundamentalist Christian in my teenage years. Becoming aware of my homosexuality contributed to my becoming a liberal Christian later on. I became enlightened (an atheist) in my mid 40s and remain an atheist now that I delight in my golden, past half-century days.

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