J. Neil C. Garcia

The book is a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Filipino male homosexuals, as well as a genealogy of discourses of male homosexuality and the bakla and/or gay identities that emerged in urban Philippines from the1960s to the present. This conceptual history engages recent events in the Philippines' sexually self-aware present, but also explores colonial history in showing how modernity implanted a new sexual order of "homo/hetero" and further marginalized the effeminate local identity of bakla.

Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM

Philippine Gay Culture

New and selected poems

Kaluluwa

Charlson Ong

The Likhaan Book of Poetry and Fiction, 1998

Can a person be gay and Catholic? Is homosexuality inborn or learned? Are there gays in the military? Was Rizal a homosexual? What should a beginning gay writer do? Why do fathers beat up their swishy sons? Why are there no happy gay stories? Are all gays inborn volleybelles? How do gays feel about growing old? Why are gays promiscuous? These are some of the queer queries that people normally ask in private (in other words, inside the closet) and that J. Neil C. Garcia boldly attempts to provide answers for in Closet Queeries.

Closet Queeries

Danton Remoto

An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing

Ladlad 2

Essays and Critiques

Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics

Critical Essays in Philippine Studies

Bright Sign, Bright Age

Myths and Metaphors

This 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.

The Last Thirty Years : Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM

Ladlad

"Other than just provide an argument for the value of the reactive and the improvised, the pieces in this book aspire to perform something else, something quite specific: as the title piece announces, mythology and writing are intimately intertwined things, so much so that the former is really the loftiest that the latter can ever wish to become. In other words, all fiction finally aspires to turn into myth, for myth is nothing if not narration wielding powerful and transfigurative magic over the communal psyche that invents it, providing not so much explanations as experiences of its innermost depths, its uppermost visions, its intuition of the transcendental, without which it would be quite impossible for any of us to grieve, to love, and be fully a person in this world."--Page 4 of cover.

Occasional Prose

Myth and Writing

New and Selected Poems

Being gay is not a choice. It is really detrimental for someone living in a third-world country. How do gays cope up with society’s constraints? How do they live their lives to the fullest? Edited by J. Neil Garcia and Danton Remoto, Ladlad: An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing, is an anthology of poems, stories, essays, and plays about gay experience in the Philippines. It is a collective effort made by Filipino members of LGBT to celebrate being their true selves.

J. Neil C. Garcia

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