Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights

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Contents List of Contributors vii A Note on Thai Transcription and Citation of Thai Names xi Queer Bangkok after the Millennium: Beyond Twentieth-Century Paradigms 1 Peter A. Jackson I Markets and Media in Bangkok’s Queer Cultural 15 Transformations 1. Bangkok’s Early Twenty-First-Century Queer Boom 17 Peter A. Jackson 2. Competing Cultures of Masculinity: When Thai Transgender 43 Bodies Go Through Muay Thai Stéphane Rennesson 3. Back in the Spotlight: The Cinematic Regime of Representation 59 of Kathoeys and Gay Men in Thailand Serhat Ünaldi 4. Loves of Siam: Contemporary Thai Cinema and Vernacular Queerness 81 Brett Farmer 5. Encounters in the Sauna: Exploring Gay Identity and Power 99 Structures in Gay Places in Bangkok Nikos Dacanay 6. Cyberspace, Power Structures, and Gay Sexual Health: 121 The Sexuality of Thai Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in the Camfrog On-line Web-cam Chat Rooms Ronnapoom Samakkeekarom and Pimpawun Boonmongkon Contents vi II Queer Bangkok in Twenty-First-Century Global 141 and Regional Networks 7. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: “Race”, Labour, and Affect 143 in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics Aren Z. Aizura 8. Bangkok’s Beautiful Men: Images of Thai Liberality in an Indonesian 163 Gay Novel Ben Murtagh 9. Speaking of Bangkok: Thailand in the History of Gay Singapore 181 Alex Au III LGBT Activism, Rights, and Autonomy in Thailand 193 10. Capitalism, LGBT Activism, and Queer Autonomy in Thailand 195 Peter A. Jackson 11. The Language of Rights, Deviance, and Pleasure: Organizational 205 Responses to Discourses of Same-Sex Sexuality and Transgenderism in Thailand Megan Sinnott 12. The Rainbow Lobby: The Sexual Diversity Network and the 229 Military-Installed Government in Thailand Douglas Sanders 13. Transpeople (Khon kham-phet) in Thailand: Transprejudice, 251 Exclusion, and the Presumption of Mental Illness Sam Winter Notes 269 A Glossary of Thai LGBT Terms 285 Bibliography 287 Index 303 ...