The book Oral Histori of Olr Gay Men Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unfotten, Travis S.K. Kong is published by Hong Kong Universy Prs.
Contents:
ORAL HISTORI OF OLR GAY MEN HONG KONG
* history of homosexuality in hong kong *
Oral Histori of Olr Gay Men Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unfotten on JSTOR. Illtrated wh photos, letters, and other imag, Oral Histori of Olr Gay Men Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unfotten giv voice to the plexi of a “secretive” past wh unique hardships as the men me to terms wh their sexualy, adulthood, and a lonial society. Confed wh the heteronormative culture prcribed by ernment, fay, and relign, the men have lived the whole of their liv stgglg to fd their social role, challengg the distctn between public and private, and longg for a stable homosexual relatnship and a liberatg homosexual space the face of terratg health and a youth-obssed gay muny.
homosexualy, sexual tert and attractn to members of one’s own sex. The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned.
Homosexualy was illegal Hong Kong between 1842 and 1991; the first gay characters only appeared film and on TV the 1970s, but only lately the LGBT muny has found growg acceptance. * history of homosexuality in hong kong *
Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years.
Juo-Christian as well as Mlim cultur have generally perceived homosexual behavur as sful.
Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships. Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn. The nflictg views of homosexualy—as a variant but normal human sexual behavur on one hand, and as psychologilly viant behavur on the other—rema prent most societi the 21st century, but they have been largely rolved ( the profsnal sense) most veloped untri.