Aura: The Gay Theme in Philippine Fiction in English (2012) edited by J. She becomes closer to neighbor Clara and as the friendship grows into something else, living in a conservative Christian neighborhood makes things a lot harder.Īvailable on Anvil Publishing, Lazada, and Shopee.
The lesbian narrative follows 19-year-old Sam, who is raised by an overly zealous mother. Software engineer Brigitte Bautista's debut novel Don’t Tell My Mother was published in 2017 after her participation in Anvil Publishing's workshop on new-adult fiction under the Spark Books imprint. The book, which was conceptualized back in 2015, is a long-time coming that "some of our lesbian writers have either stopped writing or stopped being a lesbian," editor Jhoanna Lynn B. Say "tingle" over and over again, and you'll eventually figure out that its pronunciation is close to the Tagalog word for "clitoris." The pun, of course, isn't lost on us as this anthology of 45 literary works by Filipino lesbians promises not only to tingle your senses, but also finally shine light on stories about and by women-loving-women-especially in a gay-centric world of queer writing. Whether you’re looking for non-heteronormative stories of you can relate to or seeking to understand your fellow Filipinos, there’s a queer book you can get your hands on.ġ0 Noteworthy Filipina Writers and Their Must-Read Works Here are 10 good LGBT books published locally in the last decade: Tingle: Anthology of Lesbian Writing (2021) edited by Jhoanna Lynn B.
But in the past few years, local publishing houses have tapped into our multitude of queer writers and editors who have so much to say regarding the plight of the LGBTQ+ community especially in our predominantly conservative Catholic country. For the rest of the letters in the acronym LGBTQ+, there’s not really much. (SPOT.ph) Mention queer literature in the Philippines and what comes to mind is the three-volume Ladlad series focusing on gay writing that started in the '90s.
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