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.

“A lively ethnography that brilliantly reveals how Filipino gay immigrants manipulate symbols and meanings in order to survive and even flourish within the racial, ethnic, class, and gendered spaces of America and a globalizing world. Global Divas is a must-read for all those interested in the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status.”-Yen Le Espiritu, author of Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries “Global Divas points toward a truly cross-cultural anthropology of queerness in rendering the lives of Filipino gay men in New York. Martin F. Manalansan IV breaks through mainstream ignorance and stereotyping to achieve a rich portrait of the rituals, attitudes, language, and travails of his immigrant subjects and by extension, of queer immigrant experience in general.”-Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas

• Preface viiIntroduction: Points of Departure 11 The Borders Between Bakla and Gay 212 Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives 453 "Out There": The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City 624 The Biyuti and Drama of everyday Life 895 "To Play with the World": The Pageantry of Identities 1266 Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering 152Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva 184Notes 193An Elusive Glossary 199Works Cited 205Index 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.

“A lively ethnography that brilliantly reveals how Filipino gay immigrants manipulate symbols and meanings in order to survive and even flourish within the racial, ethnic, class, and gendered spaces of America and a globalizing world. Global Divas is a must-read for all those interested in the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status.”-Yen Le Espiritu, author of Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries “Global Divas points toward a truly cross-cultural anthropology of queerness in rendering the lives of Filipino gay men in New York. Martin F. Manalansan IV breaks through mainstream ignorance and stereotyping to achieve a rich portrait of the rituals, attitudes, language, and travails of his immigrant subjects and by extension, of queer immigrant experience in general.”-Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas

• Preface viiIntroduction: Points of Departure 11 The Borders Between Bakla and Gay 212 Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives 453 "Out There": The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City 624 The Biyuti and Drama of everyday Life 895 "To Play with the World": The Pageantry of Identities 1266 Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering 152Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva 184Notes 193An Elusive Glossary 199Works Cited 205Index 219