An ethnography of Filipino gay men in New York that explores their sexual and national identities.

Preface vii
Introduction: Points of Departure 1
1 The Borders Between Bakla and Gay 21
2 Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives 45
3 "Out There": The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City 62
4 The Biyuti and Drama of everyday Life 89
5 "To Play with the World": The Pageantry of Identities 126
6 Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering 152
Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva 184
Notes 193
An Elusive Glossary 199
Works Cited 205
Index 219

Martin F. Manalansan IV is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the editor of Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America and coeditor of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism.