Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora

Martin F. Manalansan

To Play with the World: The Pageantry of Identities

Cea, Laro, Pamorada

The Performance: A Cross Dressing Santacruzan

Kambal

sa Lusog Gay -- known in lip-synching, cosmetology, impersonation

The Performance: A Cross Dressing Santacruzan

Santacruzan

---

to be chosen is honor for both the woman and her family --- Pasay City --- fundraising activity --- new fashion show

The Performance: A Cross Dressing Santacruzan

Queen

Helena Reyna de la Libertad or Queen of Liberty Reyna Chismosa Reyna Sentenciada or the Queen of Justice Infanta Judith or Judith of Bethulia

Walking through the Runway of Difference

SANTACRUZAN

As

a ritual provides a heuristic dimension that furthers the understanding of its performers.

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Nostalgia

was an important element in the Santacruzan pageant Reviving memory and feelings of reterriorialization It made me feel like I was in Manila again Ang Santacruzan as bahagi ng invisible baggage na nadala nila mula sa kanilang kabataan

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

It

propels them to travel back through their memories of being there One of the few times they felt they were Filipinos

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Nostalgia

revivified the image and memory of the Filipino homeland while at the same time acknowledging their settlement in a new home here in the United States

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Its

their way of establishing a marker of defiant marker of difference from the rest of America talaga tayong mga Pilipinong bakla

Iba

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Kaugnayan sa pagitan ng crossdressing at nostalgia:
Miss

Saudi Sarsi Emmanuel

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Memories

of the homeland and the issue of postcolonial cultural and psychic displacement persist in many Filipino gay immigrant lives.

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Mimicry

has the potential for engaging with inherently unequal relationships, such as the relationships, such as the relatp between hegemonic Hollywood icons and non-Western performers.

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and Nostalgia

Crossdressing

has become a space for artivulating and marking difference and a particular kind of modernity

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

SANTACRUZAN mirrored the experience of displacement, dislocation, and discrimination felt by some Filipino gay informants

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

HOW DOES ONE LOOK? -Filipino gay men hindi lamang invasive surgery ang paraan upang mabago ang kanilang mga katawan - projecting it to the viewers

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

Cinema Verite Guy : Why is it that all Asians look alike? - racist Gerry Do I look Filipino? - Isang tanong na patuloy na pinag-iisipan ng karakter na si Gerry

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

Strategies 1) Miss Jay- ginagampanan ang role bilang asawa at tinatawag na Nancy - ang mga pag-uusap nila ng kanyang asawa ay nagpapakita ng gender difference -ngunit itinatago naman nito ang tunay na roles nila Cross dressing bilang manipulasyon sa mundo

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

2) Bodybuilding Art, gay Filipino in his 30s -sumasali sa mga sports organizations bilang pagtanggi sa typical Oriental Kontra sa cross-dressing (low class)

Most Filipino gay men are neither cross-dressers nor body builders - May pagkilala sa mga orientalized na imahe

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

May

mga informant na pinalayas sa mga establishments na para lamang sa isang partikular na racial na grupo. - dahil dito, mas gusto ng mga Pilipino na magkaroon ng koneksyon sa ibang asian na grupo

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

Cross-dressing Cross-Dressing: creation of affinities with other asian men, latinos, african americans
Orientalized

fixity Orientalized male : not monolithic

stereotype : semblance of

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of Orientalism

Native body / Rice queen delights Pandak Maitim ang kulay ( yellow/ maputing kulay kapag may may east asian o chinese na lahi) payat

A Performers Point of View: R.E. and Immigrant Imaginings

R.E.

--- student in an art school in Manhattan Reyna Elena both continuous and discontinuous with his original idea

A Performers Point of View: R.E. and Immigrant Imaginings

"

search for a location where one can feel at home, in spite of the obvious foreigness of the space, that propels the discourses engendered by the experience of immigration

A Performers Point of View: R.E. and Immigrant Imaginings

the

process of making oneself at home

The Pageant of the Nation and the Performance of Diaspora

SANTACRUZAN Performance - may negotiation na nagaganap
-

American and Filipino social idioms, icons, and symbols syncretic dynamic fusing and infusing components

The Pageant of the Nation and the Performance of Diaspora

SANTACRUZAN -negotiate and present their collectivity to themselves and to others

Mga Posiblesng Riserts

Prostitution

for Filipino Gay Immigrants