First queer voices from Thailand : Uncle Go's advice columns for gays, lesbians and kathoeys / / Peter A. Jackson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813027403321
• Autore: Jackson Peter A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hong Kong, [Hong Kong] : , : Hong Kong University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 988-8313-90-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
• Collana: Queer Asia
• Disciplina: 306.766209593
• Soggetti: Male homosexuality - Thailand; Gay men - Thailand - Social conditions; Thailand Civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Revised and expanded edition of Dear Uncle Go : male homosexuality in Thailand.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword to the first edition / Gilbert Herdt, PhD -- Introduction to the third edition -- Part 1. "Girls to the power of 2" : the origins of Uncle Go Paknam's gay and lesbian advice columns -- 1. From kathoey expos{acute}es to gay advice column : the evolution of Uncle Go Paknam in Plaek -- Part 2. Uncle Go's nephews : male homosexuality in Thailand -- 2. Introduction to the 1995 edition -- 3. Uncle Go's columns in the context of Thai sexual culture -- 4. Class and gender differences in Thai culture : Uncle Go's diverse responses to his gay correspondents -- 5. Uncle Go's liberal conservatism -- 6. Social hierarchy and the context specificity of Thai attitudes towards male homosexuality and kathoeys -- 7. Tolerant but unaccepting : Thailand's non-homophobic but sexist male sexual culture -- Part 3. Uncle Go's nieces : the "It's Go Paknam!" column for tom, dee and les -- 8. Lesbian manifestoes and the origins of Uncle Go's lesbian advice columns -- 9. Relationship problems of toms and dees -- 10. Family prohibitions and sexual autonomy in lesbian letters to Uncle Go -- Afterword : Thai print capitalism and Uncle Go in transnational queer history.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 "Uncle 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.