The Rise And Fall Of An Urban Sexual Community: Malate (dis)placed
by Dana Collins /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut
of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In
this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place,
characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and
entrepreneurialism, and informal gay sexual labor. Malate teaches
us that the power of sexual community to sustain a transgressive,
inclusive, gay neighborhood is circumscribed and fleeting, and
that urban livability, justice, and freedom must be pursued
through organized grassroots political projects if the magic of
Malate is to be revived for all its residents.
This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut
of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In
this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place,
characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and
entrepreneurialism, and informal gay sexual labor. Malate teaches
us that the power of sexual community to sustain a transgressive,
inclusive, gay neighborhood is circumscribed and fleeting, and
that urban livability, justice, and freedom must be pursued
through organized grassroots political projects if the magic of
Malate is to be revived for all its residents.
