Global Divas - Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

An ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities.

List of contents

Preface vii

Introduction: Points of Departure 1

1 The Borders Between Bakla and Gay 21

2 Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives 45

3 "Out There": The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City 62

4 The Biyuti and Drama of everyday Life 89

5 "To Play with the World": The Pageantry of Identities 126

6 Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering 152

Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva 184

Notes 193

An Elusive Glossary 199

Works Cited 205

Index 219

About the author

Martin F. Manalansan IV is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the editor of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America and coeditor of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism.

Summary

Presents an ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities. This work challenges beliefs about the development of a gay world and the assimilation of queer folks into gay modernity. It argues for the significance of diaspora and immigration as sites for investigating the complexities of gender.

Product details

• Authors: Martin F Manalansan, Martin F. Manalansan, Manalansan IV
• Assisted by: Lisa Lowe (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2003
• EAN: 9780822332046
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3204-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories