The bakla and the silver screen: Queer cinema in the Philippines

This study looks at representations of the bakla in the Philippine cinema from 1954 to 2015. I argue that the bakla, a local gender category that incorporates ideas of male homosexuality, effeminacy, cross-dressing, and transgenderism, has become a central figure in Philippine cinema. I examine the...

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Main Author: Nuñez, Inton Michael
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Published: Animo Repository 2016
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Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11703
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Institution: De La Salle University