Philippine gay culture : binabae to bakla, silahis to MSM / J. Neil C. Garcia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garcia, J. Neil C.

Series:

Queer Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Philippines--History--20th century.

Gay men.

Gay men--Philippines--History--21st century.

Male homosexuality--Philippines--History--20th century.

Male homosexuality.

Male homosexuality--Philippines--History--21st century.

Gay people's writings, Tagalog--History and criticism.

Gay people's writings, Tagalog.

Gay people's writings, Philippine (English)--History and criticism.

Gay people's writings, Philippine (English).

History.

Philippines.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 536 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, in association with the University of the philippines Press, 2009.

Summary:

"The book is a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Filipino male homosexuals, as well as a genealogy of discourses of male homosexuality and the bakla and/or gay identities that emerged in urban Philippines from the1960s to the present. This conceptual history engages recent events in the Philippines' sexually self-aware present, but also explores colonial history in showing how modernity implanted a new sexual order of "homo/hetero" and further marginalized the effeminate local identity of bakla"-

Contents:

pt. 1. Philippine gay culture. 1. The sixties

2. The seventies

3. Precolonial gender-crossing and the Babaylan Chronicles

4. The eighties

5. The nineties

6. Prologue.

pt. 2. The early gay writers: Montano, Nadres, Perez. 1. Where we have been: Severino Montano's "The lion and the faun"

2. Orlando Nadres and the politics of homosexual identity

3. Tony Perez's Cubao 1980: The tragedy of homosexuality

Conclusion Philippine gay culture: an update and postcolonial autocritique.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-525) and index.

ISBN:

9789622099852

9622099858

OCLC:

326626696