Vigan's Crisologo St. is the New Bugis St.

Longganiza Festival in Vigan brought out the Gaybelles from their abel Iloco closets. They debuted last year with their walis tambo tiaras but this year, they made it the cholesterolic MardiGras. They spent more than P50,000 for their costumes. They even hired a choreographer from Laoag to come out with a dance extravaganza entitled "The Evolution of the Vigan Longganiza." It was all samba led by the "Goddess of Longganiza" who is more gorgeous than 7/8 of the female audience. The crowd loves them but the judges made them 4th out of 4 entries. As a result, soem fo the Gaybelles manhandled one of the gay City Hall Tourism employee.
Later in the night at our hotel, three of the judges were deliberating still. It turned out that the Frank Rivera is one of them.
Well, they said that the presentation never gave them the history of longganiza after all. They pooh poohed the finale of the Gaybelles when they took off their wraparound skirts to reveal their tanggas.
"Had they looked down at their "longganiza" and shouted, "Longganiza" I would have given them a one but they didn't so I made them fourth," one of the judges said.
I think it was Frank R. who said that his only category was, "Surprise me," and he was not surprised at all by any of the contestants.
But they were unanimous in giving the victory to a group from Ilocos Norte with their human pyramids apparently to create a giant longganiza among themselves.
Another judge said that the gays didnt uplift the standard of the festival. He also said that they should have beyond the "parloric" mentality.
So there, it wasn't gay bashing after all. Miss Piggy, it just wasnt your year. Photos by Andy Zapata