Under Bright Lights [electronic resource] : Gay Manila and the Global Scene

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benedicto, Bobby.

Series:

Difference Incorporated

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay business enterprises--Philippines--Manila.

Gay community--Philippines--Manila.

Gay men--Philippines--Manila.

Male homosexuality--Philippines--Manila.

Local Subjects:

Gay business enterprises--Philippines--Manila.

Gay community--Philippines--Manila.

Gay men--Philippines--Manila.

Male homosexuality--Philippines--Manila.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Summary:

Gay-friendly dance clubs, upmarket bars, and party circuits-such commercial venues evoke the image of a gay globe, but what happens when they are bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay? Vividly describing this world of contradictions through the prism of twenty-first-century Manila, Under Bright Lights challenges popular interpretations of the "third world queer" as a necessarily radical figure.Drawing on ethnographic research, Bobby Benedicto paints a remarkably counterintuitive portrait of gay spaces in postcolonial cities. He argues that Filipino gay men's pursuit o

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Prologue: City of Contradictions; Introduction: Making a Scene; 1 Automobility and the Gay Cityscape; 2 Elsewhere, between Palawan and the Global City; 3 The Specter of Kabaklaan; 4 Transnational Transit and the Circuits of Privilege; 5 White Noise and the Shock of Racial Shame; Coda: Nowhere to Go; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4334-6