Philippine Gay Culture
Author | : J. Neil C. Garcia |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789622099852 |
ISBN-10 | : 9622099858 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Download or read book Philippine Gay Culture written by J. Neil C. Garcia and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.