To say that this anthology is much-belated and much-awaited is an understatement and a reprimand-of-a- kind. It is so belated that Ladlad Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing, edited by J. Neil Garcia and Danton Remoto, which first came out, nagladlad, in 1994, has since come out with two more volumes, plus a “Best of” in 2014. Tingle is so belated that some of our lesbian writers have either stopped writing or stopped being lesbian; I myself had gone into semi-retirement for six years, and then staged a comeback with my collection of lesbian-themed stories, Women Loving (2010). In fact, the daughter I had during that period has now turned lesbian without a diverse literary anthology to help usher her and her generation into the experience.
It’s a mystery. In all these years of the feminis
