Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children and plain but poignant conversations

and plain but poignant conversations reveal the subtle textures of Lao culture

and sensual interaction with the world at large

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The case studies included here look at the rights of communities to manage their own cultural and natural resources across a range of settings including ethnic Khmer communities in the Northeast

Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children and plain but poignant conversationsGary L. Atkins 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,