Josie Huang covers Asian American communities for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
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"I cannot just disrupt the narrative,” Silva said. “It's going to compromise the integrity of the entire mural.” Silva said he was frustrated and saddened by the controversy, noting he's shown support for the LGBTQ+ community with the inclusion of gay Filipino Americans such as the artist Alfonso Ossorio, as well as a babaylan, a shaman from the pre-colonial era who was typically a woman or trans.Silva said the mural is being unfairly attacked when there are so few like it that honor Filipino American culture and history.
He wants a broader swath of the Filipino American community to weigh in on the controversy. From his perspective, the current portrait of Zyrus should be preserved as a"snapshot of a particular moment."“I would hate to see a process that's initiated where the conversation is stacked, where it's Eliseo versus a whole bunch of people who are shaking their fists and demanding we need change right now,” Virata said.
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