First Queer Voices from Thailand

Uncle Go's Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians, and Kathoeys

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ID6086973
AuthorsPeter A Jackson (0000-0002-4251-1293), Aaron K H Ho (0000-0003-3260-2754)
Year2019
Volume34
Issue1
Pages224-227
Publication date2019-03-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858
PublisherISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/sj34-1m
OpenAlexW2523675961
LanguageEN
Citations received4

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 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 transgendered (kathoeys) to speak for themselves in the public domain. By allowing the voices of alternative sexualities to be heard, Uncle Go emerged as Thailand's first champion of gender equality and sexual rights. Peter Jackson translates and analyzes selected correspondence published in Uncle Go's advice columns, preserving and presenting important primary sources. In this new edition, Jackson has expanded his coverage to include not only letters from Thai gay men but also those from lesbians and trans people, thus capturing the full diversity of Thailand's modern queer cultures at a key moment in their historical development when new understandings of sexual identities were first communicated to the wider community

Advice (programming · Lesbian · Queer · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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