...Dredge Byung'chu Käng In the Western popular imagination, Bangkok is a “gay paradise,” a city that affords cheap and easy access to exotic “boys.” This reputation for sex tourism as well as a local cultural tolerance for homosexuality and transgenderism is a common representation of queer Bangkok...

...Peter A. Jackson AN AMERICAN DEATH IN BANGKOK The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand Peter A. Jackson Bangkok today is home to some of the largest and most visible gay and trans- gender subcultures in Southeast Asia, and it is the site...

... discourse are confronted directly in our inaugural project on Bangkok by Dredge Käng. As mentioned above, we also encourage our authors to examine other forms of intercultural communication, including migration, bor- der crossing, and diaspora, and to look at how...

... in the national Thai language based on the Bangkok dialect were central to the rapid dissemination of evolving notions of gay and kathoey identity. 30 From the 1970s, mass-circulation popular magazines helped consolidate the meanings of new identities in regular columns on kathoey, gay, and tom-dee...

... Life . Tang Denise Tse-Shang . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2011 . ix + 194 pp . Queer Bangkok: Twenty-First Century Markets, Media, and Rights . Jackson Peter A. , editor. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2011 . xii + 308 pp . Queer Politics and Sexual...

...Dennis Altman Copyright © 1997 Mark Blasius 1997 Works Cited “After 10 Years’ Debate, HK's Gays Free to Love in Private.” Australian 13 July 1990 . Allyn , Eric . Trees in the Same Forest . Bangkok and San Francisco: Bua Luang, 1991 . Altman , Dennis . Power...

... Economy of Northeast Brazil 
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 Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press , 1999 . 297 pp . The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City 
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 Berkeley: University of California Press , 2004 . 272 pp . Duke University Press...

... in Taiwan; reviewed by James Queering China: A New Synthesis Welker  181 – 98 (Loretta Wing Wah Ho, Gay and Jackson, Peter A., ed. Lesbian Subculture in Urban China; Queer Bangkok: Twenty-­First Century Wenqing Kang, Obsession: Male...

... history and sex and gender transformations in Thailand and is currently writing a history of gay Bangkok from the 1960s to the present. His books include Buddhism, Legitimation, and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism (1989) and Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1995...

... Thinking Sexuality Transnationally: Jackson, Peter A. An Introduction 439-450 An American Death in Bangkok: Rofel, Lisa The Murder of Darrell Berrigan Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identities in China...

...-­wave feminist novels. Dredge Byung’chu Käng is a PhD/MPH candidate in anthropology and global epide- miology at Emory University. He is conducing ethnographic research in Bangkok on gender pluralism, social status, and Asian regionalism, with a focus on trans...

... Aren Z. 2011 . “ The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: ‘Race,’ Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics .” In Queer Bangkok: Twenty-First Century Markets, Media, and Rights , edited by Jackson Peter A. , 143 – 62 . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press . Aizura Aren Z...

... was disappointed and puzzled that the film never made it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special...

... was disappointed and puzzled that the film never made it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special...

... was disappointed and puzzled that the film never made it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special...

... it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special to me. Most “mainstream” film festivals abroad...

... it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special to me. Most “mainstream” film festivals abroad...

... it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special to me. Most “mainstream” film festivals abroad...

... was disappointed and puzzled that the film never made it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special...

... was disappointed and puzzled that the film never made it to British and Asian queer festivals or other festivals in Asia, despite being all over Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia. In late 2006, I traveled to the Bangkok World Film Festival with My Brother Nikhil, so Bangkok is very special...