5 Volume XXIX Number 2 2020 Revisiting Intersectional Identities: Voices of Poor Bakla Youth in Rural Philippines Athena Charanne R. Presto* University of the Philippines Diliman ABSTRACT This is an exploratory study of poor bakla youth in a rural area in the Philippines. It addresses the gap in knowledge since the bulk of the literature on the Filipino LGBT community focuses on the urban setting, especially in Metro Manila and with adults as respondents. Through in-depth interviewing, this paper pays attention to experiences of rural poor bakla youth which are shaped by their disadvantaged position in terms of gender, class, age, and rural-urban location. Using intersectionality as a framework, this paper exposes experiences that have been eclipsed in the Philippine literature on bakla, as well as confirms assertions in the current literature. Unique in this paper are narratives of not needing to come out as bakla, anecdotes of bakla’s conditional acceptance in a rural school setting, financial contribution as validation of worth vis-à-vis a marginalized status, androgynous performance of household tasks, and silence as discrimination management. It also ©2020 Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, University of the Philippines ISSN 0117-9489 Review of Women’s Studies 29 (2): 113-146 * Correspondence address: 1st Floor, Silangang Palma Hall, Africa St., University of the Philippines Quezon City 1101; Email: arpresto@up.edu.ph