First Queer Voices from Thailand Uncle Go's Advice Columns for Gays, Lesbians and Kathoeys.

Includes bibliographies and index.

List of Illustrations; Transcription of Thai; Special Thanks; Foreword to the First Edition; Introduction to the Third Edition; Part 1: "Girls to the Power of 2"; 1. From Kathoey Exposés to Gay Advice Column; Part 2: Uncle Go's Nephews; 2. Introduction to the 1995 Edition; 3. Uncle Go's Columns in the Context of Thai Sexual Culture; 4. Class and Gender Differences in Thai Gay Culture; 5. Uncle Go's Liberal Conservatism; 6. Social Hierarchy and the Context Specificity of Thai Attitudes towards Male Homosexuality and Kathoeys; 7. Tolerant but Unaccepting; Part 3: Uncle Go's Nieces.

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.

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.

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