Bangkok's early Twenty-First-Century Queer Boom

Jackson, Peter

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Bangkok's early Twenty-First-Century Queer Boom

Date

2011

Authors

Jackson, Peter

Publisher

Hong Kong University Press

Abstract

This chapter compares the boom in Bangkok queer cultures over the past decade with the sense of decline in some Western lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) scenes. It also examines the political, cultural, technological, and transnational forces that likewise contributed to the rapid expansion of queer markets in early twenty-first-century Bangkok.