Beatriz A. Torre is an assistant professor at the UP Diliman Department of Psychology, where she teaches LGBT Psychology among other courses. She currently serves as the chairperson of the Psychological Association of the Philippines LGBT Psychology Special Interest Group (PAP LGBT Psychology SIG). Bea competed her BS and MA in Psychology in UP Diliman and was a participant in the International LGBT Psychology Summer Institute in 2010 at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Her masters thesis on experiences of everyday sexism among Filipino women of diverse sexual orientations was recognized by the British Psychological Society – Psychology of Sexualities with a Post-Graduate Award and by the Psychological Association of the Philippines with an Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award. Her research interests include everyday forms of stigma and prejudice, friendships across sexual orientation, and exercise participation and motivation.
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