...] and feminine/effeminate [kathoey] gender positions to same-sex partners. This gendered pattern was rein- forced by a number of related oppositions, such as senior-junior and inserter- insertee, that established a power hierarchy between a masculine, senior “man” and his feminized, junior kathoey partner...

... at Silom Complex are carrying Slim Up, with kathoey supermodel Ornapa Krisadee seminude on the cover as the main feature, offering to share her beauty secrets.1 On a different rack one finds Worapoj Petchkoom, an Olympic silver medal – winning boxer, as the centerfold model of Stage, one...

...-2010-027 Queer Media Loci in Bangkok Paradise Lost and Found in Translation Dredge Byung’chu Käng It’s summer 2009 in Bangkok, the newsstands at Silom Complex are carrying Slim Up, with kathoey supermodel Ornapa Krisadee seminude on the cover as the main feature, offering to share...

... in the origins of modern MTF transgender identities. My more recent research on Thai queer genders and sexualities reveals that contemporary patterns of kathoey (male-to-female) transgenderism are just as different from premodern forms as Thai gay sexualities, with Thailand’s kathoey...

... the financial and cultural capital to fully access it. Gay mar- kets have also supported and been supported by Bangkok’s role as a regional and global gay mecca. Chapters by Stéphane Rennesson and Serhat Ünaldi examine the fraught relationship between Thainess, maleness, and kathoeys...

..., to the work of kathoey Thai filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, to the work of Latinx queer trans femme media artist and scholar micha cárdenas. Chen successfully traverses such a range of archives—a range that is at once methodological, geographic, racial, ethnic, and political—while simultaneously recognizing...

... of waria whose patron is the Minister for Women’s Affairs. In the Philippines local dignitaries will attend back fashion shows. There are differences as well as similarities between groups such as Indo- nesian waria or banci, Filipino babaylun or bac(k)lu, Malay maknyah or Thai kathoeys, which go...

... to browsers where there are hjira, travesti, and kathoeys but no gay men. And the material and conceptual objects that Web sites circulate are insinuated into local, regional, and national spaces and times, still regulated by state-based law, citizenship, and markets and by local...

...” (beauty) take on culturally specific meanings for Filipino gay men and examines the reso- nances, dissonances, and contradictions between uses of gay versus bakla, a Fili- pino term that (very roughly in the manner of Thai kathoey or Indonesian waria) signifies a kind of effeminate male, male...

.... The figure of the kathoey (usually trans- lated as “transvestite,” but perhaps better rendered as “lady-boy,” and ap- plicable to the “effeminate” male as well as the transgendered male) as a “third sex’’ has not, under the impact of Westernization, been replaced by the modern gay man; instead, he...

... of those abject subjects (principally women; kathoeys, or Thai transwomen; and gay male go-­go boys) who execute sex labor for the fortification of the Thai nation-­state. Meanwhile, in We Got Moves, the mimetic idolatry of The Karate Kid embodied in Cho’s boy-­dyke masculinity...

... Beyond Thirdness Sarah Lamb With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Gayatri Reddy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 310 pp. Hijras are well known as the quintessential “third sex” of India. Like the Thai kathoey or berdache/two-spirit ones of native...

... Beyond Thirdness Sarah Lamb With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Gayatri Reddy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 310 pp. Hijras are well known as the quintessential “third sex” of India. Like the Thai kathoey or berdache/two-spirit ones of native...

.... Hijras are well known as the quintessential “third sex” of India. Like the Thai kathoey or berdache/two-spirit ones of native North America, hijras have long cap- tured the Western scholarly imagination as an ideal representation of an alterna- tive to the duality of the dominant Anglo-European two...

... Beyond Thirdness Sarah Lamb With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Gayatri Reddy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 310 pp. Hijras are well known as the quintessential “third sex” of India. Like the Thai kathoey or berdache/two-spirit ones of native...

... Beyond Thirdness Sarah Lamb With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Gayatri Reddy Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 310 pp. Hijras are well known as the quintessential “third sex” of India. Like the Thai kathoey or berdache/two-spirit ones of native...

.... Hijras are well known as the quintessential “third sex” of India. Like the Thai kathoey or berdache/two-spirit ones of native North America, hijras have long cap- tured the Western scholarly imagination as an ideal representation of an alterna- tive to the duality of the dominant Anglo-European two...

... kathoey, Native America its berdache, and so on.50 Roscoe, coeditor of Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities and Islamic Homosexu- alities: Culture, History, and Literature, editor of Living the Spirit: A Gay Ameri- can Indian Anthology and Queer Spirits...

... and this accusation, as well as for discussing this section with me in some detail. 23. Cf. Rosalind C. Morris’s discussion of the resistant public self-display of transgen- dered Thai kathoeys in relation to Thai notions of sia naa [losing face] (“Educating...

...’ of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto,” Cultural Anthropology 13 (1998): 3-21; Peter Drucker, “‘In the Tropics There Is No Sin’: Sexuality and Gay-Lesbian Movements in the Third World,” New Left Review, no. 218 (1996):75-101; Peter A. Jackson, “Kathoey < > Gay < > Man...