Under Bright LightsGay friendly dance clubs, upmarket bars, and party circuitssuch commercial venues evoke the image of a gay globe, but what happens when they are bound to a landscape of disorder, mass poverty, and urban decay? Vividly describing this world of contradictions through the prism of twenty first century Manila, Under Bright Lights challenges popular interpretations of the third world queer as a necessarily radical figure. Drawing on ethnographic research,