My mom told me I was the black sheep of the family. When I was a teenager, my mom and dad treated me like I was dead. How did this start? This is actually very sad for me. In addition to your catwalking videos, you also post videos on Instagram that show you giving food to homeless people and children. I have a personal trainer and work out about seven days a week. I wanted to be masculine and sexy and show people that they could do it, too. So when I came to London in 2010, I told myself I was going to get fit and look after myself. When I was back in the Philippines growing up, I was bigger and people even in the gay community in the Philippines made fun of me for my looks. How important is fitness and nutrition to your catwalking? It's part of my life. I'm a size 12 in women's shoes, so my feet are too big for most women's brands.
But I'm a very practical person, so I don't buy expensive high heels. What shoes do you wear when catwalking? Is it a particular brand? I don't have a shoe brand it's a local brand from the Philippines. I feel like I am so beautiful and fabulous when I am with him.
It's just an amazing feeling knowing that someone is looking after me. He still works in London, so when I go home to the Philippines for work, it's kind of a long-distance relationship. So, that in mind, where did you get married? I got married in London to a British guy. I am hoping it will improve in the future, but I doubt it. As long as you don't hurt anybody, you are totally fine.īut gay marriage is not legal in the Philippines, right? Yes, because it is Roman Catholic. But I haven't experienced anything like that since.Ī lot of people do ask me about being gay in the Philippines, and I tell them that what they've heard about it is wrong. There was four of them and only one of me, so it was scary. Seven years ago, I was walking down the street and there were some straight guys drinking outside, and they threw their bottles at me and the glass shattered and went everywhere. At the moment, I think it's mostly good for gay people. It's a little surprising you say that because of all of the coverage surrounding President Duterte's policies toward the LGBT community in the Philippines. On social media sometimes people bash me, but in real life people don't care. I don't experience discrimination there now. I can still see people's faces, and I can tell they don't like me because I'm gay, but they don't talk about it. Unlike seven years ago, now it's more accepted. What is it like in general for gay men in the Philippines in 2017? There's more acceptance now. We spoke to the Instagram sensation about his catwalking skills, his childhood, and his message for the LGBT community around the world.
Sure, some people might look at him a little funny for walking down the beach in a Speedo in ten-inch heels, but compared to the adversity he's overcome in his life, Loresca is hardly bothered by the leers of strangers. Earlier this year, a show called Magpakailanman even featured a story on Loresca's life, which he says helped catapult him to a new level of fame.ĭespite Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte's apparent turnaround on his campaign promises to consider legalizing gay marriage in the Philippines, Loresca says life for gay people in his home country has improved immensely since his childhood.
But after his first catwalking video went viral in 2016 (posted in support of the Miss Universe pageant, which is held in the Philippines), he's frequently gone back to his home country for TV appearances. Since 2010, Loresca (who is tanned and chiseled enough to earn his own Ken Doll), has lived in London part-time with his husband. (More than 250,000 Instagram followers agree.) He calls himself "The King of Catwalk," and his Instagram videos leave little room for doubt that he is in fact the most talented man on the Internet when it comes to strutting in high heels through streets, beaches, and even the airport. But today, ten years later, Loresca isn't just back on his feet-he's using them to become a sensation. A few weeks later, he was living in what he calls a "garbage mountain" in Manila. His mother had thrown his high school diploma in the garbage after learning her son was gay. Twenty-eight-year-old Sinon Loresca left his home in the Philippines.