3, or Imburnal, perhaps?) because people have varied tastes, and some films tend to get more appreciated as time goes by. Your friends or friends of friends will recommend unlikely titles ( Wen Timawa Meets Delgado, Last Supper No. A few crowd favorites have been left off ( Ang Lihim Ni Antonio, Daybreak). I simply asked: Can I imagine the decade in Philippine gay culture without these films? Or, Can I imagine moving into the future without having passed through them? Then I chose ten because it’s a neat pretty number. So this is not a list of the biggest critical darlings ( Jay and Selda are not here), nor my personal guilty pleasures (Otherwise, there’ll be Boylets) - though they can be those, too. The Pinoy gay film exploded in number and diversity in the last ten years, that it seemed necessary to identify the landmarks - in chronological order, to see how we got from there to here. I tried to avoid the word “important”, because it’s such a snooty concept.
