Research has been lacking in exploring the implications of sexual identity on public leadership and in using discursive approaches to develop gender and public leadership literature. This study utilizes queer analysis to explore how six nonheterosexual public leaders in the Philippines negotiate their leadership identities and practices vis-à-vis a collectivistic, religious, and heteronormative culture. Interview accounts yield a reimagining of public leadership as a desire for intimacy with the people. Embedded in heteronormativity, this unspoken conception positions nonheterosexual subjects as unfit to participate in public leadership spaces, compelling them to make concessions to be allowed entry into the field. Such concessions, however, do not preclude the emergence of queer public leaderships that eventually enable a leadership praxis grounded on intersectionality. These findings reveal possibilities for a radical liberation of leaders and followers from interlocking structures of oppression.

在探索性认同对公共领导力的影响以及使用论述方法发展性别和公共领导力文献方面一直缺乏研究。这项研究利用酷儿分析法，探索了菲律宾的六位非异性公共领导人如何针对集体，宗教和异规范文化来协商其领导身份和实践。采访记录使人们重新想象公共领导力是与人民亲密的愿望。嵌入异质性中，这种无声的概念将非异性恋者定位为不适合参加公共领导空间，迫使他们做出让步，让其进入该领域。但是，这样的让步，不排除出现奇异的公共领导，最终使基于交叉性的领导实践成为可能。这些发现揭示了领导者和追随者从相互压迫的结构中彻底解放的可能性。