First Queer Voices from Thailand: "Uncle Go's Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys"
First Queer Voices from Thailand: "Uncle Go's Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys"
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Abstract
First Queer Voices from Thailand: Uncle Go’s Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson’s narrative is “Uncle Go”, pen-name of the sexually libertarian but avowedly heterosexual editor of a popular magazine, whose “agony uncle” columns in the 1970s provided unique spaces in the national press for Thailand’s gays, lesbians and transgenders (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 from Uncle Go’s advice columns, preserving and presenting important primary sources. In this new edition, Jackson expands his coverage to include not only letters from Thai gay men, but also those from lesbians and transgenders, thus capturing the full diversity of Thailand’s modern queer cultures at a key moment in their historical development when new understandings of sexual identity were first communicated to the wider community.
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Front Matter
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Part 1 “Girls to the Power of 2”: The Origins of Uncle Go Paknam’s Gay and Lesbian Advice Columns
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Part 2 Uncle Go’s Nephews: Male Homosexuality in Thailand
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Introduction to the 1995 Edition
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Uncle Go’s Columns in the Context of Thai Sexual Culture
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Class and Gender Differences in Thai Gay Culture: Uncle Go’s Diverse Responses to His Gay Correspondents
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Uncle Go’s Liberal Conservatism
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Social Hierarchy and the Context Specificity of Thai Attitudes towards Male Homosexuality and Kathoeys
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Tolerant but Unaccepting: Thailand’s Non-homophobic but Sexist Male Sexual Culture
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Introduction to the 1995 Edition
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Part 3 Uncle Go’s Nieces: The “It’s Go Paknam!” Column for Tom, Dee, and Les
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End Matter
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