Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children —Michael Herzfeld

—Michael Herzfeld

primarily in the Shan Plateau

He converted to Catholi­cism and returned from Europe in 1690

and provides a clear analysis of the close relationship between religion

Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore Children —Michael HerzfeldGary 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,