Ladlad an anthology of philippine gay writing

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J. Neil C. Garcia finished his BA Journalism (magna cum laude) in the University of Santo Tomas in He is currently teaching resourceful writing and comparative literature at the University of the Philippines , Diliman, where he also serves as an associate for poetry in the Institute of Creative Writing . He is the creator of numerous poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism, including Our Lady of the Carnival (), The Sorrows of Water (), Kaluluwa (), Philippine Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (), Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (), The Garden of Wordlessness (), and Misterios and Other Poems ( ) His latest critical work , Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques , is a revised version of his PhD dissertation in English Studies: Creative Writing, which he completed in He is currently operational on a full-length novel, a postcolonial survey and analysis of Philippine poetry in English.

J. Neil C. Garcia finished his BA Journalism (magna cum laude) in the University of Santo Tomas in He is currently training creative writing and comparative literature at the University of the Philippines , Diliman, where he also serves as an associate for poetry in the Institute of Creative Writing . He is the author of numerous poetry collections and works in literary and cultural criticism, including Our Lady of the Carnival (), The Sorrows of Water (), Kaluluwa (), Philippine Lgbtq+ Culture: The Last Thirty Years (), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (), Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (), The Garden of Wordlessness (), and Misterios and Other Poems ( ) His latest critical work , Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics: Essays and Critiques , is a revised version of his PhD dissertation in English Studies: Resourceful Writing, which he completed in He is currently working on a full-length book, a postcolonial survey and analysis of Philippine poetry in English.

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TWO DECADES AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST LADLAD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY WRITING, WE OFFER THIS "BEST OF" EDITION, COMPRISED OF WHAT MY COEDITOR DANTON REMOTO AND I Think about THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED AND ENDURING PIECES--POEMS, STORIES, ESSAYS, AND PLAYS--FROM THE SPANKING THREE-VOLUME LITERARY HARVEST OF THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. IT IS INTERESTING AND IMMMENSELY ELATING TO REVISIT THESE WORKS, AND TO READ THEM FROM THE PRIVILEGED PRISM OF THE PRSENT THAT THEY DOUBTLESS MADE POSSIBLE, AT LEAST IN PART: A PRSENT IN WHICH THE "BRAND" LADLAD HAS RECENTLY BECOM AN ACCREDITED POLITICAL PARTY, GAY INDEPENDENT CINEMA HAS SEEN AN UNPRECEDENTED EFFLORESCENCE, ALTERNATIVE "HOMOSEXUAL" REPRESENTATIONS Own PROLIFERATED ON TELEVISION AND THE NEW MEDIA, AND A VIABLE LESBIAN-GAY-TRANSGENDER MOVEMENT HAS VERITABLY TAKEN ROOT IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE BEST OF LADLAD IS BOTH DOCUMENT AND WITNESS, AND A SOURCE OF RARE AND ELOQUENT COURAGE; BRUISED AND DISABUSED, DELIRIOUS AND ENTHUSED, FILIPINO LGBT HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR. THE REST OF THE LUMINOUS JOURNEY BECKONS." --FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY J.

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