The Haunting of Gay Manila
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3659456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bobby Benedicto (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 317-338 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-2007-035 |
| OpenAlex | W2002670880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article aims to contribute to conceptual discussions about how postcolonial queer subjects negotiate the borders between putatively "local" queer subject formations and increasingly global sexual categories. It reexamines the tension-ridden nexus between "gay" and the Filipino bakla, arguing that the complex encounters between such formations are conditioned by emplaced class and gender hierarchies that stem from both colonial history and a neoliberal cultural context. I argue that in contrast to Filipino gay men in the diaspora who recuperate the practices of the bakla to negotiate displacement, middle- and upper-class gay men in the homeland (specifically Manila) offer an inverted picture of global-local relations, since the absence of a shared diasporic experience of displacement, (racialized) exclusion, and downward mobility also operates as the absence of any impetus to recover kabaklaan (bakla-ness) from its subordinated position within local exclusionary systems. Drawing from popular themes that thread through the virtual, physical, and print spaces that have emerged as part of Manila's post-2000 gay scene, the article foregrounds notions of complicity, particularly in terms of how the "newness" of the gay scene is made visible through the violent rewriting of kabaklaan as a temporal anomaly. Affective understandings of global space-time, underpinned by dreams of mobility and imaginative planetary geographies, are here depicted as unstable introjected trajectories haunted by the spectral presence of kabaklaan in the "now" of gay Manila and by the need to continuously exorcise such apparitions
Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Heterotopia (medicine · Homeland · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Sex work and related issues · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Institutionalizing an Ambiguous Category
Exploring the Dolphy Bakla
Aberrant sexualities
Les formes sociales de l’homosexualité masculine à Bamako dans une perspective comparée
The progressive Orient
Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging
Queer cosmopolitanism in the disaster zone
Nigeria Can Do without Such Perverts”
Identity construction and ‘coincidental’ entrepreneurship among gay Filipino guesthouse owners in Amsterdam
Les études gays aux Philippines. À propos de
From Powder to Power
Queer Worldings
Shared Spaces of Transnational Transit
Queer Love and Urban Intimacies in Martial Law Manila
The Queer Afterlife of the Postcolonial City
We Who Are Sexy
When Feminist Falls in Love with Queer
Queer recognition and politics on YouTube
Globalisation and Body Politics
Amateur porn in Filipino Twitter alter community
Beyond men and women
Desiring Sameness
Re)Positioning (Asian) Queer Studies
Diversité de genre
Situating queerness in Filipino experience
Gay hospitality as desiring labor
The Limits ofBaklaand Gay
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |