Imagining gay paradise [electronic resource] : Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore / Gary L. Atkins.
Atkins, Gary, 1949-
2012
HQ76 .A873 2012eb
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Title Imagining gay paradise [electronic resource] : Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore / Gary L. Atkins.
Author Atkins, Gary, 1949-
ISBN 9789888053896 (electronic book)
9789888083237
9789888083244
9888083236
9888083244
Publication Details Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource(x, 316 p.) : ill.
Call Number HQ76 .A873 2012eb
Summary "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
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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