In my five decades of living, I only have one woman friend who is a lesbian. Her name Michelle Unso. Mind you, she is not the kind of lesbian we are all accustomed to the macho looking, dressing and sounding type na poging-poging sa sarili.
Michelle, my dear friend, loves anything and everything that makes her a “really, female, female” — makeup, dresses, skirts, stilettos and fashion. She also has two kids, a beautiful young miss and a new baby boy. She also champions a lot of causes for women.
And she has her own advertising and events office. She has hearty laughter, a hopeless romantic who gives her all to the one she loves. Yes, she is scarred.
But that makes my Michelle the most beautiful. It is because of her that gave me a better understanding of why there are women who are into a different kind of love. Different, simply because it a woman who falls in love with another woman.
Thus, when I learned that the power couple of Ice Seguerra and Liza Diño will produce a play entitled “Choosing,” the excitement in me stirred because this artistic endeavor is an opportunity to understand more about love and life, and the choices we make because of it, from the perspective and point of view, heart and soul of a woman and a transman, and their quest to happily ever after. Stella and Mitch Written by Diño, with additional monologues added by Seguerra, under the direction of Anton Juan, Choosing is about the parallel lives of Stella (Diño) and Mitch (Seguerra) and.