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Etymology
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ay-Lesbian Literature
A.K.A.
“Queer Literature”

“Be who you are

and say what
you feel,
because those
who mind don't
matter and
those who
matter don't
mind”.
Dr. Seuss
• “It’s a collective term for literature
produced by and for gay and lesbian
communities which involves
character, plot lines or themes
concerning their community.”
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• -Catherine Morin- Sy
• “It’s their [gay and lesbian writers] way of
expressing themselves to others; so
that, people would understand why they
are acting such manner in order to
lessen misunderstanding in the
society”.
• –Jennifer Lil Babor- Locsin
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 “Queer literature is like
one of the petals of a
flower, sometimes it
appears the weirdest petal
but it attracts the human
eyes… for what appears
the weirdest, appears
dominantly.”
-- Jervis D. Villarez
“Queer literature is one way of
educating the mind of the
youth nowadays to help them
to be more mature enough in
dealing with people”.
-- Elzhar M. Padayhag
• “Gay- Lesbian Literature is one
of the most unique forms of
literature ever made in Man’s
history. Indeed, a marvel of
man’s achievement in
exploring things and feelings
‘out of the box’. It caters on
the most vocal,
comprehensive, and the most
colorful visage of life; not
considering the social norms
instead, giving focus on the
 Etymology
• After World War II, a time during
which homosexual identity politics
began to emerge with Harry Hay's
Mattachine Society and a growing
gay/lesbian bar culture, gays and
lesbians were forced to remain
closeted if they wished to lead
"normal" (i.e., harassment-free)
lives.
• Queer – as the dictionary defines the
word, it means, “odd”, “strange”
• Queer theory, perhaps more than queer fiction,
has been changing the way we understand
literary and aesthetic expression since the
early 1980s.
• Queer readings involve, for instance, ironic
reconstructions of traditional gender roles,
reimagining supposedly heterosexual
characters in literature as, in fact, closeted
gay lovers, and agitating to make formerly
marginal forms of pleasure and desire into
perfectly acceptable, mainstream ones.
• Queer theory and queer literature remind us
that there is always a subtext, and subtexts
can be sexy. On a more serious level, queer
theory problematizes dominant modes of
experiencing social intimacy and ways that
institutions enforce highly restrictive sexual
roles on individuals and families. Literature
which is queer includes any writing concerned
with the themes of queer theory and queer
life experience.
Genres
• One-act plays
• Early forms of
Literature
• Homosexual
Literature
• Contemporary &
New Forms of
 Themes
• Gay/Lesbian Love &
Intimacies
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• Freedom of Expression
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• Stories of “Unselfish
Experiences”
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• Eye-opening
Literatures
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 Unique Features
• Queer Literature’s definition is subjective.
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• It is diverse.
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• Controversial issues are sometimes set

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• They are inspired by unique people who are

collectively known as the “Third Sex”
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• Vocal, Liberal
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Calumpi R Picardal
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 • Early
• Writer

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Tony Perez

• TONY PEREZ is a creative writer,

playwright, poet, lyricist, psychic
journalist, painter, and fiber
artist.  
• He is one of the 100 Filipino
recipients of the 1898-1998
Centennial Artists Award of the
Cultural Center of the
Philippines.  
• His other awards include the 13
Artists of the Philippines , four
National Book Awards from Manila
everino Monta

• He is considered as one of the Titans of

Philippine Theater. He was a playwright,
director, actor, and theater organizer
with an output of one novel, 150 poems
and 50 plays in his 65-year lifetime.
• Through the foundation of the Arena
Theater, Montano institutionalized
• Montano was born in 1915 in Laoag, Ilocos
Norte Academically, he started his
tutelage under a British mentor, Marie
Leslie Prising, when he was thirteen. He
studied at the University of the
Philippines. She took Montano under her
wing and endowed him with Western
literature, the theater and Shakespeare.
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• He was part of the UP Stage when he

studied in the University of the
Philippines. Then a scholarship took him
to the famous 47 playwriting workshops of
George Pierce Baker at Yale University and
guided by Broadway names and
international personalities like
Komissarjevsky of the famous Moscow Art
Orlando Nadres • - a native of Taybas, Quezon.
•  - established the Mukha
(Mukha, Utak, Katawan,
Halina, and Alindog) a
beauty pageant
• - started professional career
in Komiks
•   - He has shown his talent
and versatility as an actor,
screenplay writer and 
director
•   - he directed films , movie
appearances, and
television appearances
•     - he moved on to theaters,
writing plays such as the
controversial “Hanggang
• Dito na Lamang at Maraming
Salamat” an award –
 Famous Works:

•             - “Stardom”
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•             - “Una Kang Naging Akin”
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•             - “Hanggang Dito na lamang
at Maraming Slamat”
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Wilfrido Maria Guerr • - was a Filipino playwright,
teacher and theater artist
•             - He has written well
over a hundred plays, 41
one which have been
published
•             - He has been the
teacher of some of the most
famous people in the
Performing    Arts at present
•             - brought sadness to
Wilfrido. His aunt’s death
was a devastating
experience for him
•             - Year’s later, he made
his aunt the principal
character in Forever as
Maria Teresa and later as
Maria Araceli in
Frustrations.   
•             - In 1997, Guerrero was
distinguished as a National
Artist for Philippine Theatre.
Contemporary
Writers
 • Danton Remoto was born on 25
DANTON REMOTO March 1963 in Basa Air Base,
Pampanga.
• He was an ASEAN scholar at the
Ateneo de Manila University,
which he received after winning
the first prize at the ASEAN
Letter-Writing Contest for Young
People.
• At Ateneo, he received his AB
Interdisciplinary Studies in
1983. With his Robert Southwell
scholarship, Remoto obtained
his MA English Lit., 1989; then,
on a British Council fellowship,
a Master of Philosophy in
Publishing Studies,
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• Among his works: Skin , Voices ,
Faces , Anvil, 1991; Black Silk
Pajamas / Poems in English and
Filipino , Anvil, 1996, and Pulotgata;
The Love Poems, Anvil, 2004. His
books of essays include Seduction
and Solitude, X-Factor, and Gaydar,
as well as their Filipino translations:
Buhay Bading and Rampa: Mga
Sanaysay.
rnesto Superal
Yee

•He was born on 29 October 1953 in Tanjay, Negros

Oriental.
•He finished his BBA (major in management) and LLB at

SU, and passed the bar in 1983.

•He was a fellow in the Silliman Writers Workshop, 1977

and currently is Clerk of Court V at the Regional Trial

Court, Branch 32, Dumaguete City.
•He is also a part-time professor of Civil Law and
J. Neil C. Garci

• He earned his
A.B.Journalism
magna cum laude,
from the University
of Santo Tomas in
1990; M.A. in
Comparative
Literature in 1995,
and Ph.D. in English
Studies: Creative
Writing in 2003 from
the University of the
Philippines. He is
currently a Professor
of English, Creative
Writing and
Poetry
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• Closet Quivers, 1992

• Our Lady of the Carnival,
1996
• Sorrows of Water, 2000;
• Kaluluwa: New and Selected
Poems, 2001
• The Garden of Wordlessness,
2005
• Misterios and Other Poems,
Cultural Criticism
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• Philippine Gay Culture: The

Last Thirty Years, 1996
• Slip/pages: Essays in
Philippine Gay Criticism,
1998
• Postcolonialism and Filipino
Poetics: Essays and
Critiques, 2004
 • Anthologies (as editor)
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• Ladlad, 1994;
• Ladlad 2, 1996;
• The Likhaan Book of Philippine
Criticism, 1992-1997
• The Likhaan Book of Poetry and
Fiction, 1998 & 2000
• Bongga Ka 'Day: Gay Quotes to Live
by, 2002
• Ladlad 3, 2007
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Jaime An Lim

• He was born on January 7, 1946.

• He is poet, historian and kuwentista.
• He graduated a Bachelor of Arts courses in English in 1968
in Siliman University.
• He went to United States in 1980 and been the professor
of Master of Arts in Comparative Literature, Master of
Arts in Education and Doctor of Philosophy in Literature
at Indiana University in Bloomingdale .
• Some of the important fruits of his pen was: Comments on
Noli Me Tangere by Rizal;
• Javellana, Edilberto Tiempo and wilfredo Nollado which
contents of his book titled Literature and Politics:
• The Colonial Experience in nine Philippine novels in 1993.
His article won the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for Literature is The Liberation of Mrs. Fidele
birth, a short story (1973);
• Literary Citation
•

“Angel Depraved” by Danton Remoto

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• She sits on her high stool

Taunting and naïve
The innocent angel
of many monks’ dreams
Sometimes she’s almost evil
But she’s so easy to forgive
Sometimes she’s all kindness
You’re so easily deceived
And sometimes she’s a woma
And she won’t be denied
Until you wake up to her cryin
Because she only is a child.
 • She will confuse you
• And you will crave her more and
more
She will abuse you
For the angel’s but a whore
She will take you high above
And you won’t even hear a sound
When she pushes you from the
heavens
And you come crashing down
You know she will destroy you
And you have to stop the fall
But the angel comes before you
And you can’t resist the call
You never seem to make up your
mind.
She will suck you in.
Her womb is all chaos.
And you will swim and flounder.
 Advocacies
• *Equal Rights & Opportunities
(May it be job, political functions &
involvement, etc.)
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• * General Acceptance (that they
will be accepted in the society of
what they are, not judging on the
way how they look like and what
are their orientations , but as
• *Concern for the
grass root
level of the
society
(prostitutes, less
fortunate,
minorities and
the like)
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 • Freedom of
Speech,
Expression &
Association (in
pursuance of the
1987 Constitution
of the Republic of
the Philippines
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• * That they have also
feelings like a
straight man or
woman who is hurt, fall
in love, and be aware on
what’s going on in the
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