Article in October 2008 issue of Rogue

Readers in Manila may already have seen this, but here are scans of my story in the latest issue of Rogue, a very sleek and still commendably serious men's magazine in the Philippines. I traveled, on multiple occasions, to Cebu to watch a popular exhibition game there called the Unano-Bading Showdown. In English, that's the very self-explanatory "Midget-Gay man Showdown." For me, watching the game was a surreal and disturbing experience, but it is part of a culture that I love and seek to understand in ever-deeper ways.

Click on these images to see very large scans of the pages from Rogue, which will allow you to read the article and get a closer look at the amazing photography of Jon Unson.

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