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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Filipino people. It includes Filipino people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from the Philippines .
2009, Filipino American History Month is recognized in California. [154] Steve Austria becomes "the first, first-generation Filipino to be elected to the United States Congress." [129] [155] Mona Pasquil becomes first Filipino American, and first Asian American, lieutenant governor of California. [156]
Legaci – Filipino-American R&B band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, formed in 1997. They are currently the backup singers for Canadian Pop-R&B singer Justin Bieber on the My World Tour. Q-York – Filipino-American hip hop record production duo composed of Flava Matikz (DJ/producer) and Knowa Lazarus (songwriter/MC).
Velásquez, a motivational speaker, advocates for Latinx people with disabilities. She was born with a rare congenital condition that has many health effects including the inability to gain weight.
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
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1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act became law, and it provided comprehensive civil rights protection for people with disabilities. Closely modeled after the Civil Rights Act and Section 504, the law was the most sweeping disability rights legislation in American history.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:American women of Filipino descent in politics The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.