Abstract
This chapter explores the inequalities that are a part of gay-led gentrification. It tells the story of the second wave of business development, led by what research participants describe as the “cosmopolitan gays” who promoted an urban lifestyle of social distinction. The author follows the neoliberal relations of neighborhood renewal, such as the privileging of a “Western” gay presence, the assertion of a cosmopolitan class culture out onto the streets, and the reproduction of social distinctions between Malate’s gay men. This chapter shows how neoliberal gentrified space creates the conditions for the demise of place; gay entrepreneurs who claim to resist mass commercialism create a gay neighborhood that caters to transnational class interests, and which alienates the very community that could sustain urban place.
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Notes
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David was one of Philip’s closest Filipino friends. They met and lived in the same apartment building in Malate up until David left Manila.
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PK also spoke about encountering Sward, or “gay speak,” when he first went to Down Under, as we learned from Chap. 5. It is a form of slang shared by gay Filipinos transnationally (see Manalansan 1995 for a discussion of gay Filipino Americans’ use of Sward to grapple with the impact of HIV/AIDS and migration on gay Filipino–American communities in New York). Sward draws from both Tagalog and English yet it consists of words, accents, and sayings that are made up and therefore unique to the speech.
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Dirk invested not only in his own lifestyle store but was part of the consortium of investors in Anas, Baccus, The Wild Goose; he later opened Marseille.
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Barangay captains are similar to a local community police force.
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Manalansan, Martin F. IV. 1995. Speaking of AIDS: Language and the Filipino “Gay” Experience in America. In Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays on Filipino Cultures, ed. V.L. Rafael, 193–220. Manila, Philippines: Anvil.
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Collins, D. (2016). The Exclusions of Place: Gay-led Gentrification Within Nakpil’s Second Wave. In: The Rise and Fall of an Urban Sexual Community. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57961-4_6
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