Over the past few decades, diverse new cultures and communities based on same-sex preference and transgender identity have become increasingly prominent in all the countries of Southeast Asia.

Across the cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity of region, and despite the distinctive colonial and semicolonial political histories of the modern states of Southeast Asia (see Jackson 2010), new lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identities have emerged in the context of dramatic transformations in gender and sexual cultures. In this issue of Kyoto Review, тАЬqueerтАЭ denotes sexual and gender practices, identities, cultures, and communities that challenge normative masculine and feminine gender roles and/or transgress the borders of heterosexuality. тАЬQueerтАЭ here also labels a critical theoretical perspective that understands all genderings and sexualities as emerging from contingent historical and cultural conditions.... (read more)... http://kyotoreview.org/issue-18/queer-s ... egitimacy/

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