"Garcia is one of the most highly respected scholars on gender and sexuality in the Philippines. He is also an accomplished poet and prizewinning essayist. Over the years, he has written pioneering scholarship on the history and politics of gay cultures a

"First published thirteen years ago, Philippine Gay Culture was immediately recognized as a landmark in the study of male homosexuality in modern Asia and especially in the continent's former colonies. Written by a Filipino homosexual who is also a distin

"Philippine Gay Culture is a founding text of comparative gay and lesbian studies that has supported the emergence of Asian queer studies in this decade. By meticulously constructing a literary and historiographical archive from scattered Philippine sourc

J. Neil C. Garcia is Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines. He is the author of numerous poetry collections and works of cultural criticism, including Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics Essays and Critiques.