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First Queer Voices from Thailand [Elektronische Ressource] : Uncle Go's Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys

Jackson, Peter A.,i1956-

[s.l.] : Hong Kong University Press, 2016

303 p.

Queer Asia ; v.15

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978-988-8083-26-8

 

f Online-Publikation  Thailand  Homosexualität  Kolumne, Journalismus 

 

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Online-Ressource

978-988-8313-90-7

This is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson's highly regarded pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson's fascinating narrative is "Uncle Go", which was the pen name of a popular magazine editor who, despite being avowedly heterosexual, was tolerant of all sexual practices and whose "agony uncle" columns in the 1970s provided unique spaces in the national press for Thailand's gays, lesbians and transgenders (kathoeys) to speak for themselves in the public domain. By allowing the voices of alternative sex...