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- Title
"WE'RE THERE AND QUEER": Homonormative Mobility and Lived Experience among Gay Expatriates in Manila.
- Authors
COLLINS, DANA
- Abstract
This article offers an analysis of lived experiences of transnational mobility for gay-identified expatriates who reside in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing from in-depth interviewing and discourse analysis of eight cases, the author argues that homonormative mobility organizes gay men's travel, even as gay expatriates work to reimagine themselves through their travel and face destabilizing experiences in transnational spaces. The author offers a theorization of homonormative mobility to explain discourses of normative gender, race-nation, and desire in gay travel. Specifically, she argues that expatriates describe their mobility as (1) an escape from the heteronormative controls they face at home, (2) masculine access to freeing places in "foreign" playgrounds, (3) an act of homo-orientalist desire of Filipino men and spaces, (4) a desirable experience that builds their own self-confidence, and (5) troubling for their self-perceptions.
- Subjects
MANILA (Philippines); PHILIPPINES; NONCITIZENS; EXPATRIATION; GAY men's travel; LGBTQ+ tourism; GAY men's sexual behavior
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2009, Vol 23, Issue 4, p465
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0891243209340570