8. Lesbian Manifestoes and the Origins of Uncle Go's Lesbian Advice Columns9. 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; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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 transgenders (kathoeys) to speak for themselves in the public domain. By allowing the voices of alternative sex
