Prologue : city of contradictions -- Introduction : making a scene -- Automobility and the gay cityscape -- Elsewhere, between Palawan and the global city -- The specter of kabaklaan -- Transnational transit and the circuits of privilege -- White noise and the shock of racial shame -- Coda : nowhere to go
Summary
'Under Bright Lights' vividly describes the emergence in twenty-first century Manila of a 'bright lights' scene: a world composed of dance clubs, upmarket bars, party circuits, and other commercial sites that evoke images of a gay globe, but which remain bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay. Benedicto argues that queer world-making practices sustain élite desires for global modernity and the class, gender, and racial orders that structure urban life in the post-colony
