II GALANG (PHILIPPINES) At the onset of the ECQ last March, several members of GALANG’s partner LBT people’s organizations (LPO) were excluded in the listing of beneficiaries of government aid. In one of the barangays, personnel/volunteers in-charge of identifying and listing households in the community explicitly stated that LGBT couples/households are not considered as a family since they cannot be categorized as a family—only heterosexual couples with a child/children are considered as such. The LPO members themselves and GALANG’s local community organizers discussed this with the gender and development focal persons in the said barangay but no action was taken. Fortunately, we were able to reach out to a group of LGBT individuals who gave relief assistance/food packs to the affected LBT couples/households for several weeks. In another barangay, a similar incident happened but this time the barangay was more progressive and open, and changed their system to include LBT couples/households as beneficiaries.