Got Ladlad?

We finally got our copies of Ladlad, An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing edited by Neil C. Garcia and Danton Remoto.

From Karla Maquiling of PinoyCentric:

"Ladlad 3, the third installment to the highly successful gay writing anthology, took more than a decade to release that when UP Diliman poetry associate J. Neil Garcia, who co-edits the book with Ateneo de Manila professor Danton Remoto, read a poem from it, he quipped, “This love [that the poem refers to] is both obsolete and finished, and it’s so funny, reading it now, that I could ever have been this romantic.”
Ladlad has certainly come a long way from the first book’s publication in 1994. When Remoto and Garcia gathered submissions for the first Ladlad, “Nobody wanted to contribute because, as one famous author said to me, it will ruin their careers,” Remoto recalls.

Yet two months after the book’s release by Anvil Publishing, all 2,000 copies were sold out. Anvil continues to reprint copies of both Ladlad 1 and 2 today..."

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