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

• Main Author: Nuñez, Inton Michael
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2016
• Subjects: Film and Media Studies; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/11703
• Institution: De La Salle University

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...