| Summary: | <p>In spite of a greater emphasis on identity and intersectionality in the sociology of development, there is still a dearth of empirical scholarship exploring the ways that the experience of poverty is shaped by sexual difference or “queerness” in a broader sex/gender system. In this paper, I explore the ways that queerness and poverty inflect each other in the urban Philippines. I suggest that being queer affects the ways that low-income Filipinos experience poverty and that idioms of poverty and status inflect the way that queerness itself is understood in the country. Ultimately, I suggest that the sociology of development can benefit from a greater attention to those who are marginalised by dominant systems of sex, gender, sexuality, and kinship, and that queer theorists can similarly benefit from a greater understanding of socioeconomic diversity in global theorising.</p>
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