Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSMThis 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part | 39 |
Chapter One | 61 |
Chapter Two | 82 |
Chapter Three | 151 |
Chapter Four | 198 |
Chapter Five | 223 |
Chapter Six | 246 |
Part | 276 |
Chapter Two | 334 |
Chapter Three | 361 |
Conclusion | 387 |
Notes | 457 |
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