...Peter A. Jackson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 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...

... in English-language media. This article juxtaposes Thai media and lived experience to displace, recontextualize, and expand the prevailing Western view. It argues that Western gazes that depict Thailand as especially tolerant of homosexuality and gender variance may in fact inhibit the free expression...

... of the “lady- boy” cabarets in Bangkok, are juxtaposed next to glossy posters of the Grand Pal- ace. Alongside temples, snakes, crocodiles, elephants, and beaches, kathoey have come to represent one of the natural, scenic, and “amazing” wonders of Thailand.4 Just a little farther down the street...

....”2 Dennis Altman has labeled this phenomenon “global queering” and in a 1997 article, “Global Gaze/Global Gays,” observed, “What strikes me is that within a given country, whether Indonesia or the United States, Thailand or Italy, the range of construc- tions of homosexuality is growing.”3...

... , 2003 . xvi + 221 pp . Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand 
 Megan J. Sinnott
 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . x + 261 pp . Duke University Press 2006 Book Review Queer Studies under Ethnography’s Sign Tom Boellstorff...

... Association Conference, Adelaide. Dec. 1992 . Chua , Siong-huat “Asian-Americans, Gay and Lesbian.” Encyclopedia of Homosexuality . Ed. Dynes, Wayne. New York: Garland, 1990 . 84 -85. Connors , Michael . “Disordering Democracy: Democratization in Thailand.” Unpublished paper. Melbourne...

... University. He has written extensively on Buddhist 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...

... and methodological approaches to BOOK REVIEWS 185 and thick descriptions of queer cultures and queer lives in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand. Yau Ching frames As Normal as Possible as an exploration of “the complex pro- cesses...

... [Myanmar], Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Yemen; Africa includes Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, South...

... States and in Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand on traditional verbal arts, material culture, ethnic identity, and other topics. Tze-lan D. Sang is assistant professor of Chinese at the University of Oregon. She is author of The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (forth- coming...

... University in Canberra, where he specializes in the histories of Buddhism, gender, sexuality, and globalization in modern Thailand. He is a cofounder of the Asia- PacifiQueer Network (apq.anu.edu.au a collaborating general editor of the Hong Kong University Press Queer Asia monograph series...

... and Turkey.2 Thailand’s Tourism Authority has begun to promote sex-change oper- ations as part of its “health-tourism packages.”3 Scotland recently retracted its planned outreach to gay and lesbian tourists, while the rest of Great Britain’s tourist industry is actively courting the “Pink Pound.”4...

.... Some thirunangais like Satya went to Thailand for SRS. Our interlocutors consid- ered Thailand surgeries to be highly effective; the ability to access Thailand sig- naled socioeconomic capital, the foreign setting suggested greater medical exper- tise and better standards of care, and it was seen...

... are amply evident, not only in the thoughtful reviews of individual films from these regions, but also in the lively conversations she conducts with filmmakers as diverse as Thailand’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Cuba’s Héctor García Mesa. Not only does Rich search...

... 451-474 Identity in 1960s Thailand Silvio, Teri 361-41 1 Reflexivity, Bodily Praxis, and Identity Kaplan, Morris B. in Taiwanese Opera 585-604 Who’s Afraid of John Saul? Wallace, Lee Urban Culture...

...- national relationships. He is also involved in community and HIV organizing with transgender women and sex workers in Thailand. Regina Kunzel is a professor of gender, women, sexuality studies, and history at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Criminal Intimacy: Sex...

... suggest that Filipino tomboy formations are akin to other transgender female masculinities rooted and routed through Southeast Asia, such as tombois in Indonesia and toms in Thailand. Anthropologist Megan J. Sinnott, for exam- ple, writes that toms in and from Thailand can be understood as “female...

.... For example, in Surabaya most temput ngeber are named after locations outside Indonesia: Texas, KuZgor, Puttuyu (a tourist beach in Thailand), Paris, Brad. Such names, by permitting embodied visits to locales simultaneously outside and inside Indo- nesia, sidestep the binarisms of same...

... in its vast array and number of international residents and in the rapid reconstruction of its urban landscape. The influx of foreign-born residents has brought not so much gay tourism, which barely exists in China (in contrast to Thailand), as gay men who come to stay. The Chinese...

... to her book’s primary purpose, but insofar as she appears to have had inside knowledge, readers are deprived of learning more about how modern, urban gender and sexual identities connect with the globalized economy in Thailand. At times these studies of intimacy, love, and political economy...