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Author: Martin F. Manalansan locates diasporic, transnational, and global dimensions of gay and other queer identities within a framework of quotidian struggles ranging from everyday domesticity to public engagements with racialized and gendered images to life-threatening situations involving AIDS. He reveals the gritty, mundane, and often contradictory deeds and utterances of Filipino gay men as key elements of queer globalization and transnationalism.

This is a challenging but inspiring social anthropology. Uplifting, empowering, and provocative. Jackson , Southeast Asian Studies. Grace , Journal of International Migration and Integration. Moreover, they're seen as good-humored and possessing a fun-loving exuberance, at least in the popular imagination. These qualities, together with other attributes, are considered and assessed with admirable caution and wit in this accessible.

The reader can look forward to many. I am pleased to add my accolades to Manalansan's landmark collection. Ordona, Journal of Asian Studies. Manalansan helps us understand the diasporic Filipino homosexual experience in America. Jackson, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

By illuminating such a specific fragment of multicultural New York, Manalansan sheds light on the universal notion that migration, and travel in general, can be the ultimate reality check. Global Divas is a must-read for all those interested in the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. 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.

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