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    The document discusses gender studies, queer theory, and issues of sexuality in relation to Jose Rizal. It explores whether Rizal could be considered gay based on analyses of his writings and behaviors. However, the document argues that concepts of sexual orientation were not clearly defined in Rizal's time in the way they are today. People engaged in same-sex relations but were not defined by their sexuality. The document examines how colonialism imposed Western notions of sexuality that did not exist previously in Philippine culture.

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    The document discusses gender studies, queer theory, and issues of sexuality in relation to Jose Rizal. It explores whether Rizal could be considered gay based on analyses of his writings and behaviors. However, the document argues that concepts of sexual orientation were not clearly defined in Rizal's time in the way they are today. People engaged in same-sex relations but were not defined by their sexuality. The document examines how colonialism imposed Western notions of sexuality that did not exist previously in Philippine culture.

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    The document discusses gender studies, queer theory, and issues of sexuality in relation to Jose Rizal. It explores whether Rizal could be considered gay based on analyses of his writings and behaviors. However, the document argues that concepts of sexual orientation were not clearly defined in Rizal's time in the way they are today. People engaged in same-sex relations but were not defined by their sexuality. The document examines how colonialism imposed Western notions of sexuality that did not exist previously in Philippine culture.

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    The document discusses gender studies, queer theory, and issues of sexuality in relation to Jose Rizal. It explores whether Rizal could be considered gay based on analyses of his writings and behaviors. However, the document argues that concepts of sexual orientation were not clearly defined in Rizal's time in the way they are today. People engaged in same-sex relations but were not defined by their sexuality. The document examines how colonialism imposed Western notions of sexuality that did not exist previously in Philippine culture.

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    GENDER STUDIES AND

    QUEER THEORY
    ARE YOU GAY?
    WAS RIZAL GAY?
    J. NEIL GARCIA
    ACADEMIC MALICE…
    For Isagani Cruz

     Fear of commitment (to the revolutionary


    cause)
     Failings in relationship with women
     Did not go to brothels
    For Isagani Cruz

     Fear of commitment (to the revolutionary


    cause)
     Failings in relationship with women
     Did not go to brothels
    “…categories we use are always culture-
    bound and historically specific…”
    “…categories we use are always culture-
    bound and historically specific…”
    In Rizal’s time…

    “ “
    the socially-
    binabae/yi,
    effeminate “bakla” bayoguin, effeminate
    homosexual asog and bido men
    ” ”
    In Rizal’s time…

     that people were different on account of


    the gender or the object of their
    sexual desire (heterosexual or homosexual)

    was alien to our turn-of-the-


    nineteenth-century ancestors
    HOMOSEXUALITY

    only coined in 1869 by Karl Maria


    Kertbeny
    In El Filibusterismo

     “That respectable gentleman who is


    so elegantly attired is not a physician
    but a homeopathist on his own, sui
    generis: he believes totally in
    the similia similibus, the attraction
    of likes. That young Cavalry captain
    with him is his favorite disciple.”
    In El Filibusterismo

     “That respectable gentleman who is


    so elegantly attired is not a physician
    but a homeopathist on his own, sui
    generis: he believes totally in
    the similia similibus, the attraction
    of likes. That young Cavalry captain
    with him is his favorite disciple.”
    So,

     Rizal could not have been a bakla


     the concept didn’t yet exist in his times
     such categorizations were not yet available
     engagingin homosexual sex is one thing,
    being a homosexual is another.
     there were men who loved other men, and
    women who loved other women, but they
    were not much different from everybody
    else (also in the Philippines…)
    The Colonial Perversion

     Social “unselfconsciousness” vs. Sodomy

    Sins against the sixth commandment

    With other men or women or animals

    Not “sense of self”


    In Confesionarios…

     Cunnagpuit, o cun nagpapuit, o cun


    nagcasala sa hayop.
    - friar Gaspar de San Agustin, 1713
    Going back to Rizal…

     “…sinceRizal couldn’t have been a


    homosexual, it only follows that he
    couldn’t have been a heterosexual
    either…”
     As individuals whose lives were not
    governed by the homo/hetero distinction,
    they were relatively free to commit
    homosexual and heterosexual acts without
    thinking how these acts affected their
    selfhoods.
     “homosocial”:individuals were expected to
    develop bonds within each of the two
    genders, bonds that could be expressed in
    several ways.
    LEARNING FROM THIS EXAMPLE…
    QUEER CRITICISM…

     HETERONORMATIVITY
     theinstitutions, structures of
    understanding, and practical orientations
    that make heterosexuality seem not
    only coherent—that is, organized as a
    sexuality—but also privileged”
     Gender studies and queer theory explore
    issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized
    populations (woman as other) in literature
    and culture.
    Femini
    sm

    Decon
    Seman
    tics queer structi
    on

    Psycho
    analysi
    s
     culturaldefinitions of sexuality and what it
    means to be male and female are in flux:
    "...the distinction between "masculine" and
    "feminine" activities and behavior is
    constantly changing (Richter 1437).
    Questions to ask:

     Whatelements of the text can be


    perceived as being masculine (active,
    powerful) and feminine (passive,
    marginalized) and how do the characters
    support these traditional roles?
     What elements in the text exist in the
    middle, between the perceived
    masculine/feminine binary? In other words,
    what elements exhibit traits of both
    (bisexual)?
     Howis queer, gay, or lesbian experience
    coded in texts that are by writers who are
    apparently homosexual?

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