The Rise and Fall of an Urban Sexual Community

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Why Place Matters: An Introduction

   • Dana Collins

   Pages 1-39

3. The History of Place: From Urban Community to Heritage Conservation

   • Dana Collins

   Pages 41-74

4. The Magic of Place: Players in the Nakpil Revival

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   Pages 75-119

5. The Sexuality of Place: Gay Hospitality and the Production of Desiring Labor

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   Pages 121-153

6. “Love, Autonomy, and Our Attempts at It”: Coming of Age in Malate

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   Pages 155-181

7. The Exclusions of Place: Gay-led Gentrification Within Nakpil’s Second Wave

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   Pages 183-214

8. Conclusion: Malate 2013

   • Dana Collins

   Pages 215-228

9. Back Matter

   Pages 229-237

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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.

• Queer Communities
• Urban Studies
• Filipino Studies
• Sex work
• Tourism
• Ethnography
• Gentrification
• Globalization
• area studies

• Los Angeles, USA

  Dana Collins

Dana Collins is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton, USA. She is co-editor of New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, and she has published widely on her research in Manila. Her future research lies in the areas of “crisis” studies and food justice in the Philippines.

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