Under Bright Lights
Subtitle: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
By: Bobby Benedicto
Series: Difference incorporated
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780816691074; 9780816691081
Subjects: Male homosexuality; Gay business enterprises; Gay men; Gay community
Description: Employing first-person storytelling techniques to capture the experience of Manila and gay life in a third world city, Benedicto offers a counterintuitive portrait of gay spaces in postcolonial cities. He argues that Filipino gay men's pursuit of an elusive global gay modernity sustains the very class, gender, and racial hierarchies that structure urban life in the Philippines. --From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : city of contradictions; title: Introduction : making a scene; title: Automobility and the gay cityscape; title: Elsewhere, between Palawan and the global city; title: The specter of kabaklaan; title: Transnational transit and the circuits of privilege; title: White noise and the shock of racial shame; title: Coda : nowhere to go.