Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM
- ISBN-10
- 9715425771
- ISBN-13
- 9789715425773
- Category
- Gay men
- Pages
- 536
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- UP Press
- Author
- J. Neil C. Garcia
Description
This groundbreaking work provides a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Filipino male homo-sexuals as well as a genealogy of discourses and performativities of male homosexuality--and the bakla and/or gay identity that they effectively materialized--in urban Philippines from the 1960s to the present.
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- 2009-06-01
- 564 pages
- Paperback
- Hong Kong University Press
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- 1996
- 418 pages
- Paperback
- University of the Philippines Press
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