first LGBT cemetery in Cavite (feature article)

the local government of Rosario Cavite,with the land given by a private firm, allotted a two-hectare space in Barangay Tejero to be used as cemetery for the LGBTs. Salinas heaven's garden, The final resting place, has 200 apartment-type niches that are ready for use. The LGBT niches have markers in varied colors for identification. Pink are for the gays while the green are for lesbians. More than 20 hectares of the cemetery land were divided into three parts, the Filipino-Muslims, All times which includes children to elderly, and LGBTs dubbed as "ikatlo", for the municipality’s 20 barangays. Municipal Publication Representative Arnel Laparan, also a featured hero in readers digest 2009 issue said as he laughs "No one has been buried there yet, and I should be the first". Mr. Laparan also said that the cemetery is exclusively for the dead of the needy families where LGBTs are also included in the “womb-to-tomb program” of the municipal administration which means, like others, they can have free education and funeral services and burial. Mayor Jose “Nonong” Ricafrente Jr., a lawyer by profession, said there is no discrimination in the municipality and that they have all the rights to live and work in the area. The municipal government also allowed the LGBTs to work in any local offices or field. Just last year, it allowed gays to work as traffic enforcers and firemen for recognizing the third sex as one of us.