Coco Banana: Where Manila boogied the night away
Suddenly couturier Ernest Santiago wrote two words on a blank sheet: Coco Banana. “Anak, this is what we will call our new discotheque,” Ernest, who was my gay “mother,” told me. The name was inspired by mid-century nightclubs in America, the Copacabana in New York and the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles.