Contents ** Pre-Gay, Post-Queer: Thai Perspectives on Proliferating Gender/Sex Diversity in Asia * Homosexuality and the Cultural Politics of Tongzhi in Chinese Societies * Becoming a Gay Activist in Contemporary China * Mapping the Vicissitudes of Homosexual Identities in South Korea * Tiptoe Out of the Closet: The Before and After of the Increasing Visible Gay Community in Singapore * Culture, Sexualities, and Identities: Men Who Have Sex with Men in India * Survival Through Pluralism: Emerging Gay Communities in the Philippines * Gay and Lesbian Couples in Malaysia * Let Them Take Ecstacy: Class and Jakarta Lesbians * Drink, Stories, Penis, and Breasts: Lesbian Tomboys in Taiwan from 1960s to 1990s * Asian Values, Family Values: Film, Video and Lesbian and Gay Identities * Homosexual Rights as Human Rights in Indonesia and Australia * Variations on a Common Theme? Gay and Lesbian Identity and Community in Asia * Index * Reference Notes Included **

Contents Foreword * A Panoply of Roles: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Contemporary Thailand * Same-Sex Sexual Experience in Thailand * HIV/AIDS Projects with and for Gay Men in Northern Thailand * Increasingly Gay Self-Representations of Male-Male Sexual Experiences in Thailand * Masculinity and Tom (ital) Identity in Thailand * Transformations of Transgender: The Case of the Thai Kathoey (ital)* Rehearsing Gender and Sexuality in Modern Thailand: Masculinity and Male-Male Sex Behaviors * The Friends Thou Hast: Support Systems for Male Commercial Sex Workers in Pattaya, Thailand * Between Money, Morality and Masculinity: The Dynamics of Bar-Based Male Sex Work in Chiang Mai * About the Contributors * Index * Reference Notes Included

(1999). A Panoply of Roles. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services: Vol. 9, No. 2-3, pp. 1-27.