 Filipino homosexuals eventually identified to this oppressive identity and began engaging in projects of inversion, as the disparity of "homo" and "hetero" entrenched and became increasingly salient in the people's psychosexual logic.Though American colonialism brought the Western notion of "gay" and all its discontents, it also simultaneously refunctioned to serve liberationist ends.While it stigmatized the local homosexual identity, the same colonialism made available a discussion and thus a discursive position which enabled the homosexualized "bakla" to speak.