 In January 2019, Duterte attacked the country's Catholic bishops and claimed most of them were gay after the church criticised his war on drugs, saying "Only I can say bishops are sons of bitches, damn you … Most of them are gay.They should come out in the open, cancel celibacy and allow them to have boyfriends".In the 1960s, the first LGBT organization, Tigresa Royal, at the University of Santo Tomas was established.