<p>Phillipine Gay Culture 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 the 1960s 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. Garcia analyzes several works by bakla writers and artists that narrate hybridity, appropriation, and postcolonial resistance and in their own way, enriched Philippine gay culture and the Philippines as a whole. This book will appeal to scholars of literary history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and Asian history. </p>

Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM (Queer Asia)

Literature & Fiction

Garcia, J. Neil C.

History & Criticism

Hong Kong University Press

Can a person be gay and Catholic? Is homosexuality inborn or learned? Are there gays in the military? Was Rizal a homosexual? What shoud a beginning gay writer do? Why do fathers beat up their swishy sons? Why are there no happy gay stories? Are all gay born volleybelles? How do gays feel about growing old? Why are gays promiscuous? These are some of the queer queeries that people normally ask in private (in other words inside the closet) and that J.Neil C. Garcia boldly attempts to provide answers for in Closet Queeries.

Closet queeries: Essays

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Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM (Queer Asia)

Closet queeries: Essays