Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children lecturer and researcher at the

lecturer and researcher at the School of Global Studies at Göteborg University

Edited by Henri Locard

Outhine Bounyavong is one of the most prominent contemporary writ­ers in Laos

—Michael Herzfeld

for the past eighteen years

Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children lecturer and researcher at theGary L. Atkins The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a queer reading of Walter Spies,