Robert Diaz, The Lims of Bakla and Gay: Femist Readgs of My Hband’s Lover, Vice Ganda, and Charice Pempeng, Signs, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sprg 2015), pp. 721-745
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In the 1980s, gay and lbian activists set up a group named BANANA, which stood for Baklang Nagkakaisa Tungo sa Nasyonalismo (“Bakla Uned Toward Natnalism”), and participated protts agast the ernment. “Makibeki” b “makibaka” (“ntend wh ”) and “beki” (another dimutive of bakla) while “‘wag mashokot” means “have no fear” gay lgo. Makibeki Ngayon, At Ang Panahon.