baklan.
/bəˈklɑː/, U.S. /bəˈklɑ/, Philippine English /baˈkla/ Philippine English (sometimes derogatory, potentially offensive).
A person registered male at birth who identifies with or presents a feminine gender expression, typically through behaviours, occupations, modes of dress, etc., that are culturally associated with femininity. Bakla encompasses a wide range of gendered characteristics and practices that do not correspond to heteronormative ideas of masculinity. It can often, but not always, denote homosexuality, although the term is increasingly being used as a synonym for Western terms relating to sexual orientation, such as gay and homosexual.
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1969 V. Gamboa & H. J. Feenstra in Philippine Sociol. Rev. 17 141/2 It is the males and not the females who attribute to male homosexuals the attributes of feminine baklâ.
1997 E. Y. Ibarra in C. M. Brainard Contemp. Fiction Filipinos in Amer. 122 I was lucky, I did not have to suffer the family rejection that many baklas are enduring back home.
2014 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 22 Oct. The term bakla..is mainly identified with men taking on feminized roles, and later used to refer as well to gay men, again because of the idea that a gay man has a pusong babae (a woman's heart).
2021 @rosereyde 5 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Jan. 2022) Being bakla in an extremely patriarchal country was instrumental in how I..decided to become an activist.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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