On Philippine Gay Lingo

By DANTON REMOTO
   
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=117223   

The Filipino gay empire has struck back at the center, using a language full of slippages and cracks—a language at once sophisticated and vulgar, serious and light, timely and timeless
   
I want to raise three points in this essay. First, that gay language serves as a mediator in the universe of Philippine languages. Second, that this language comes form a carnival of sources, a bricollage, as Claude Levi-Strauss would put it. Third, that this language has been appropriated by the heterosexual mainstream.