Goldin spent two months in Manila and Bangkok. “Whitney was a gorgeous queen I met in Manila in 1992. I went every night to the Monokel club where she worked, modeling, singing, dancing, sometimes stripping, sometimes entertaining customers. Her mother used to come from the Provinces to make her outfits. A lot of the queens in Manila were very close to their families and support them with the money they made from their shows. As everywhere sex workers had a very difficult life. The older queens didn’t retire; they managed the bar and performed comedy routines on stage. In Manila they called me "mother," in Bangkok "sexy grandma.”