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J. Neil Carmelo Garcia is a Filipino writer, professor, and cultural critic. He is currently a professor of English , Creative Writing , and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman and is known for his works on queer studies and gay culture in the Philippines .
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in the Philippines are generally accepted in Filipino society, and it has been ranked among the most gay-friendly countries in Asia. [2] It has the second highest social acceptance rate in the Asia-Pacific next to Australia , according to a Pew Research Center survey in 2013.
Based on a report made by USAID, in partnership with UNDP, entitled "Being LGBT in Asia: The Philippines Country Report", the LGBT community during the early 90s wrote several books that raised awareness, such as Ladlad, a 1993 anthology of Philippine gay writing edited by Danton Remoto and J. Neil Garcia, and Margarita Go-Singco Holmes's A ...
According to Filipino academic J. Neil Garcia, the baklâ would fall under the inversion pattern of homosexuality identified by American psychobiologist James D. Weinrich. This is the cultural view where homosexuality is seen as an inversion of the gender and sex binary.
Together with J. Neil Garcia, Remoto edited the so-called Ladlad ("Out of the Closet") series, a succession of gay literature. He taught full-time at the Ateneo de Manila University from 1986 to 2009, and later worked as a Communications Analyst at the United Nations Development Programme and as Head of Research and News Desk Manager at TV5. [ 1 ]
Filipino scholar and writer J. Neil Garcia has referenced Miss Gay Philippines in his works pertaining to Western notions of gender performativity and queer identities in the Philippines. [ 16 ] Miss Gay Philippines pageants has influenced the spread of gay beauty pageants in various barangays , local neighborhoods, throughout the Philippines.
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Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (2): 1. Reference named "garcia2008": From Babaylan: Garcia, J. Neil C. (2008). "Precolonial Gender-Crossing and the Babaylan Chronicles". Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM. The University of the Philippines Press. ISBN 9789715425773.