“To Play with the World”: The Pageantry of IdentitiesCea, Laro, Pamorada

Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora Martin F. Manalansan

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 It’s their way of establishing “a marker

of defiant marker of difference from the rest of America”

“Iba talaga tayong mga Pilipinong bakla”

Invisible Baggage, Drag Persona, and NostalgiaKaugnayan 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 relat’p 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 OrientalismSANTACRUZAN “mirrored the experience of

displacement, dislocation, and discrimination felt by some Filipino gay informants”

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of OrientalismHOW 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 OrientalismCinema VeriteGuy : “Why is it that all Asians look alike?”- racistGerry – “Do I look Filipino?”- Isang tanong na patuloy na pinag-iisipan ng karakter na si Gerry

Wearing Your Body: The Spectacle of OrientalismStrategies 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 OrientalismCross-dressing Cross-Dressing: “creation of affinities

with other asian men, latinos, african americans

Orientalized stereotype : “semblance of fixity”

Orientalized male : not monolithic

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 Performer’s Point of View: R.E. and Immigrant ImaginingsR.E. --- student in an art school in

ManhattanReyna Elenaboth continuous and discontinuous

with his original idea

A Performer’s 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 Performer’s Point of View: R.E. and Immigrant Imaginingsthe 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