Elska Magazine: elska BANGKOK (Thailand)

UK 2023, 165 pp., brochure, € 19.90
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Liam Campbell - ELSKA 43
This issue was made in Bangkok, Thailand. This is one of the world's gay wonderland, a place that serves as a safe haven and holiday hotspot for LGBTQ travellers from everywhere, but what is it like to actually live here? Is it the queer paradise so many visitors perceive it to be? That's what the makers of elska aimed to ... Weiterlesen

Elska Magazine: elska ALMATY Kazakhstan

UK 2023, 140 pp., brochure, € 19.90
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Liam Campbell - ELSKA 42
This issue was made in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan and a burgeoning centre of LGBTQ culture in Central Asia. This is the sort of place that we expect the bulk of the elska readership to know little about, and before coming here the makers of elska were also rather in the dark. Apart from vague notions of what ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan D. Luthor / Jennifer U. Loh (eds.): Queer Asia

Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender. USA 2019, 288 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Zed
Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalization of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on ... Weiterlesen

Benjamin Law: Gaysia

Adevntures in the Queer East. USA 2014, , € 19.95
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Cleis
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet his fellow Gaysians. Law takes his ... Weiterlesen

Hans Fritschi: Wanderlust in Gay Asia

Exotic Encounters and Erotic Escapades. UK/USA 2011, 256 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Celebrated gay blogger Hans Fritschi from Switzerland has travelled extensively around Asia and his site is one of the leading online gay guides. He has travelled across Asia from his home outside Pattaya to explore the region's gay scene and now shares with readers his experiences of gay life in Asia. Through the eyes of his flamboyant alter ego Suzy ... Weiterlesen

John Burdett: The Godfather of Kathmandu

UK 2010, 462 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corgi - Sonchai Jitpleecheep 4
John Burdett's famed gay Royal Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is put to the test both as a Buddhist and as a cop as he confronts the most shocking crime of his career. A rich American film director has been murdered. It is an intriguing case, and solving it could lead to a promotion for Sonchai, but, as always, he is ... Weiterlesen

Norm Yip: 2.am

The Asian Male. Hongkong 2007, 68 pp., hardbound, € 36.95
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In seinem zweiten Bildband perfektioniert der Fotograf aus Hongkong seinen erfolgreichen Blick auf asiatische Männer. Wie schon in Vorgängerband »1.am« interessieren Yip auch hier Bodybuilder ebenso sehr wie geschmeidige Schwimmertypen. In seinen Fotos, die überwiegend schlicht gehalten sind und sich auf das jeweilige Model konzentrieren, gelingt es dem Fotografen die spezifische Sinnlichkeit herauszuarbeiten, die asiatischen Männern anhaftet. Hierzu steht ihm ... Weiterlesen

Norm Yip: 2.am

Hongkong 2007, 68 pp., geb., € 36.95
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In seinem zweiten Bildband perfektioniert der Fotograf aus Hongkong seinen erfolgreichen Blick auf asiatische Männer. Wie schon in Vorgängerband »1.am« interessieren Yip auch hier Bodybuilder ebenso sehr wie geschmeidige Schwimmertypen. In seinen Fotos, die überwiegend schlicht gehalten sind und sich auf das jeweilige Model konzentrieren, gelingt es dem Fotografen die spezifische Sinnlichkeit herauszuarbeiten, die asiatischen Männern anhaftet. Hierzu steht ihm ... Weiterlesen

Joel B. Tan: Best Gay Asian Erotica

USA 2004, 252 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Go beyond the locker room in this playful, imaginative, and lushly written collection of gay Asian erotica, with settings as diverse as a bamboo grove in China and a sleepy crank caller's L.A. apartment. This homoerotic anthology brings together stories of lust and adventure - each with a queer Asian man as the focus of desire. In »Mimesis«, a newly ... Weiterlesen

Gerard Sullivan, Peter Jackson (eds.): Gay and Lesbian Asia

USA/UK 2001, 280 pp., brochure, € 63.99
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Countries like Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines demonstrate n astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities. Although many Asian cultures borrow the language of the West when discussing queerness, the attitudes, relationships, and roles described are quite different. »Gay and Lesbian Asia« covers the following range of approaches and subjects: the globalization theory ... Weiterlesen