Title: Under Bright Lights
Subtitle: Gay Manila and the Global Scene
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.
Subjects: Male homosexuality, Gay business enterprises, Gay men, Gay community, Philippines, social conditions, Ruth Benedict Prize Honorable Mention, LGBTQ spaces and places
Places: Philippines, Manila