This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in AsiaPacifiQueer demonstrate convincingly that in the realm of sexualities, globalization results in creative and cultural admixture rather than a unilateral imposition of the western values and forms of sexual culture. These essays range across the Pacific Rim and encompass a variety of forms of social, cultural, and personal expression, examining sexuality through music, cinema, the media, shifts in popular rhetoric, comics and magazines, and historical studies. By investigating complex processes of localization, interregional borrowing, and hybridization, the contributors underscore the mutual transformation of gender and sexuality in both Asian Pacific and Western cultures. Contributors are Ronald Baytan, J. Neil C. Garcia, Kam Yip Lo Lucetta, Song Hwee Lim, J. Darren Mackintosh, Claire Maree, Jin-Hyung Park, Teri Silvio, Megan Sinnott, Yik Koon Teh, Carmen Ka Man Tong, James Welker, Heather Worth, and Audrey Yue.| Introduction 1 Fian Martin, Peter A. Jackson, Mark McLeiland, andr A ldrey Yue 1. Embodied Masculinities of Male-Male Desire: The Homo Magazines and White-Collar Manliness in Early 1970s Japan 29 J Darren Mack,ntosh 2. Lilies of the Margin: Beautiful Boys and Queer Female Identities in Japan 46 James Weker 3. Grrrl-queens: One-kotoba and the Negotiation of Heterosexist Gender Language Norms and Lesbo(homo)phobic Stereotypes in Japanese 67 Claire Maree 4. Politics and Islam: Factors Determining Identity and the Status of Male-to-Female Transsexuals in Malaysia 85 Yik Koon Teh 5. Recognition through Mis-recognition: Masculine Women in Hong Kong 99 Kam Y/p i,o Lxucetta 6. Being a Young Tomboy in Hong Kong: The Life and Identity Construction of Lesbian Schoolgirls 1t7 Car/en G(a Man Tong 7. The Romance of the Queer: The Sexual and Gender Norms of Tom and Dee in Thailand 131 Megan Sinnott 8. Bad-Assed Honeys with a Difference: South Auckland Fa'afafine Talk about Identity 149 Heaether Woith 9. Villa, Montano, Perez: Postcoloniality and Gay Liberation in the Philippines 163 J Nei/ C. Garcia 10. Bading na Bading: Evolving Identities in Philippine Cinema 181 Ronald Bayta7 11. Representation, Politics, Ethics: Rethinking Homosexuality in Contemporary Korean Cinema and Discourses 197 Jin-HVung P,ek 12. Lesbianism and Taiwanese Localism in The Silent Thrush 217 Tel Silvio 13. How to Be Queer in Taiwan: Translation, Appropriation, and the Construction of a Queer Identity in Taiwan 235 Song Hwee LiO7: 14. King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia 251 Audcre Yue | "Opens up new paradigms in understanding LGBTQ cultures in Asia and beyond."—Intersections
"Needs to be read by everyone interested in sex and gender."—Pacific Affairs
|Fran Martin, University of Melbourne, is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture. Peter A. Jackson, Australian National University, is the author of Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand. Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong, Australia, is the author of Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age. Audrey Yue, University of Melbourne, is coeditor of Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia.