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AB  - "The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a 'queer reading' of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turn Bali into an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state. Secondly, the book provides a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and the resistance to those notions expressed through an architectural paradise called Babylon founded by a Thai known as Khun Toc. Finally, it describes the 'cyber-paradise' of Fridae.com created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. Collectively, the study examines the pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, and the geographic and online spaces they created."--Publisher's website
AU  - Atkins, Gary,
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete
CN  - HQ76
CY  - Hong Kong :
CY  - London :
DA  - 2012.
ID  - 455328
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Homosexuality and art.
KW  - Paradise in art.
KW  - Place (Philosophy)
KW  - Male homosexuality
KW  - Masculinity
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N2  - "The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a 'queer reading' of Walter Spies, a gay German painter who in the 1930s helped turn Bali into an island imagined as an ideal male aesthetic state. Secondly, the book provides a historical account of the absorption of Western notions of romantic heterosexual monogamy in Thailand during the reign of King Rama VI and the resistance to those notions expressed through an architectural paradise called Babylon founded by a Thai known as Khun Toc. Finally, it describes the 'cyber-paradise' of Fridae.com created by a young Singaporean named Stuart Koe. Collectively, the study examines the pursuit of sexual justice, the ideologies of manhood they challenged, and the geographic and online spaces they created."--Publisher's website
PB  - Hong Kong University Press ;
PB  - Eurospan [distributor],
PP  - Hong Kong :
PP  - London :
PY  - 2012.
SN  - 9789888053896
T1  - Imagining gay paradiseBali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /
TI  - Imagining gay paradiseBali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore /
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