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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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 |