People with a History: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History Sourcebook
Section VI: Africa, Asia, Latin American, Oceania
Editor: Paul Halsall
Contents:
Section VI: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania
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Chapter 26: Ancient China, Japan and Korea
Discussions:
- Homosexuality in the Korean Historical Record [At Utopia-Asia] [Internet Archive version here]
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A. L. De Silva: Homosexuality and Theravada Buddhism [At BuddhaNet] [Internet Archive version here]
De Silva discusses the prohibitions for monks in the Vinaya,
the figure of the pandaka in the early texts and the application
of these texts to lay people.
- Peter A. Jackson: The Persistence of Gender: From Ancient Indian Pandakas to Modern Thai Gay-Quings Australian Humanities Review, April 1996 [Was At latrobe.edu.au, now Internet Archive]
On homosexuality in Buddhist countries past and present.
- Peter A. Jackson: Non-Normative Sex Gender Categories in Theravada Scriptures Australian Humanities Review, April 1996 [Was At latrobe.edu.au, now Internet Archive]
Massively information appendix to Jackson's article.
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Robert Aitken: Gay marriage from a Zen-Buddhist perspective [At QRD] [Internet Archive version here]
Aitken is an important figure in American Zen. His discussion
here is mainly directed at modern concerns, but he discusses the
history.
- Chris Berry: Queer Film in East Asia Australian Humanities Review, July 1996 [Was At latrobe.edu.au, now Internet Archive]
- Koichi: The Gay of the Samurai: All About Homosexuality, Buddhist Monks, Samurai, and the Tokugawa Middle Class 2015 [At Tofugu] [Internet Archive version here]
- Wikipedia: Yukio Mishima
On Japan's homosexual writer.
Texts
- The Homosexual Tradition in China: Selections from Chinese Homosexual Literature [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Texts on Chinese Homosexual Tradition [At this Seit]
- Four 1990s Press Reports on Gay Life in China [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- 1990s Gay Life in China and Taiwan [At this Site]
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Manifesto of First Chinese Tongzhi Conference, 1996 [Was At HKGAY, now Internet Archive]
Tongzhi is being used in Chinese for Gay. This manifesto directly asserts a historical basis for modern Chinese homosexuals and the differences of Chinese Tongzhi movements with western gay movements.
- Wu Tsao Page 19th century [Was At Sappho Com, now Internet Archive]
China's foremost Lesbian poet.
- Mary M. Anderson, Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China , (Buffalo NY: Prometheus, 1990), 15-18, 307-11 [At Columbia] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Death of the Last Emperor's Last Eunuch, 1996 [At Columbia] [Internet Archive version here]
Websites:
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Chapter 27: Ancient India
It has proved to be extraordinarily difficult to find much infromation
about South Asian homosexuality. Some relevant documents are under
"Islam", (including Richard Burton's Terminal Essay,
in which he claims that homosexual activity was common in Indo-Muslim
culture but not Hindu cultures). See also the Buddhist references
collected under "China and Japan).
Discussions:
Texts:
Websites:
- WEB Shri Krishna as Kali and Lalita [At Shivashakti.com] [Internet Archive version here]
Although the sexual relationships of Indian gods often follow
heterosexual expectations, the individual God/dess may change
form and be incarnate as another. This story could be read as
gay, lesbian, or multiply transgendered.
- WEB Tantrik Links [At Shivashakti.com] [Internet Archive version here]
Tantricism was the "short path" to Enlightenment in
Hinduism and Buddhism. Sexual ecstasy was a particularly important
feature, often represented by heterosexual "yab-yum"
figures.
- WEB Samalinga [Was at Geocities, now Internet Archive]
Collection of South Asian Queer Writings on the WWW.
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Chapter 28: The Lesbian and Gay
Movement in Australia and New Zealand
Discussions:
- Steven Lindsay Ross: Homosexuality and Aboriginal culture: a lore unto themselves Archer Magazine, 2014 [At Archer] ] [Internet Archive version here]
- Robert French: Australia’s queer history (2018) [At Oga] [Internet Archive version here]
- Alex Bayley: Beyond Buggery Digging Up Stories of Sex Between Men on the Victorian Goldfields 2019 [At Alex Bayley] [Internet Archive version here]
Article with extensive links to 19th century press reports.
- Yorick Smaal: Queer Relationships in nineteenth-century Australia (2017) [At Australian Women's History Network] [Internet Archive version here]
- SBS: Timeline of LGBT+ rights in Australia (2016) [At SBS] [Internet Archive version here]
- Rictor Norton: From Twickenham to Turkey Eighteenth-Century Gay Subcultures in Europe, America and Australia [At Rictor Norton's website][Internet Archive version here]
Some discussion of gay subcultures (or not) in the Netherlands, Sweden, Prussia, Geneva, Lisbon, and Australia.
- Clive Moore and Bryan Jamison: Making the Modern Australian Homosexual Male: Queensland’s Criminal Justice System and Homosexual Offences, 1860-1954 (2007) [At CHS] [Internet Archive version here]
- Reverend William Yate - 19th Century New Zealand Gay History Case 1836 [Was At Matt & Andrej Koymasky, now Internet Archive]
- Christopher N Kendall: Homophobia as an Issue of Sex Discrimination:
Lesbian and Gay Equality and the Systemic Effects of Forced Invisibility, E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Vol
3, No 3 (September 1996) [At www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Stephen Lawton: Patterns of safe sex knowledge, sexual practice, and sexual identity in a sample of men-who-have-sex-with-men: a social context approach [Was At Australian QRD, now Internet Archive]
Addresses modern history of AIDS in Australia.
- Wikipedia: LGBT in New Zealand
- Wikipedia: LGBT History in Australia
Texts
Websites:
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Chapter 29: Gay and Lesbian Politics
in Latin America
Discussions:
Texts
Websites:
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Chapter 30: The Impact of LGBT Identity Politics Outside the West
Discussions:
- Dennis Altman: On Global Queering 1998 [Was At Australian Humanities Review, now Internet Archive]
With Responses from Gary Dowsett, Michael Tan, Donald Morton, Christopher Lane, David Halperin and Fran Martin
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Seiichi M. Sunday: Tokyo's 1st Gay Parade from Outrageous Tokyo: Japan's English Language Gay magazine,
Nov 1994 [Now at Internet Archive ]
- Homosexuality Legalized in Russia 1997
[Was At U. Glasgow, now Internet Archive]
Texts:
- Edward Carpenter (1884-1929): Iolaus: An Anthology of Friendship [chapters on Africa] [At this Site]
- Stephen O. Murray and Will Roskam: Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities © 1998 [Was At Louis Crewe, now Internet Archive]
Extensive oral history reports. An early draft of the book manuscript. Extensive documentation of homosexual traditions in all parts of Africa.
- South African Constitution [A ICL]
Section 9.(3) is the first constitutional guarantee of protection for LGBs in the world
- Gays: Guardians of the Gates, An Interview with Malidoma Som M.E.N. Magazine, September
1993 [Was At Afrinet, now at Scribd]
Malidoma Som is charged by his elders of the Dagara tribe of Burkina
Faso with bringing the wisdom of his tribe to the West. His book Ritual: Power, Healing and Community. Malidoma notes "among
the Dagara people, gender has very little to do with anatomy.
It is purely energetic. In that context, a male who is physically
male can vibrate female energy, and vice versa
And this
is something that also touches on what has become known here as
the "gay" or "homosexual" issue. Again, in
the culture that I come from, this is not the issue. These people
are looked on, essentially, as people. The whole notion of "gay"
does not exist in the indigenous world. That does not mean that
there are not people there who feel the way that certain people
feel in this culture, that has led to them being referred to as
'gay'
The gay person is looked at primarily as a 'gatekeeper.'"
- Eugene J. Patron: Heart of Lavender: In Search of Gay Africa (1995) from Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Fall 1995 [At this Site]
- Electronic Mail and Guardian: Gay couple tie the knot, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1997 [Was At Mail and Guardian, now Internet Archive]
- Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, 2003
enacted by the Parliament of South Africa [Wikisource]
- Zimbabwe Anti-Gay Witchhunt 1998 [Was at Xmission, now Internet Archive]
- Molefi Asante: Interview on Homosexuality on THIS WAY OUT [At QRD] [Internet Archive version here]
Asante, a leading proponent of Afrocentrism, had long called homosexuality a western . He has now publically changed his mind, as more information info African gender/sexuality has come to light.
- Matthew Quest : Afrocentricity vs. Homosexuality: The Isis Papers [At Spunk.org] [Internet Archive version here]
A critique of Frances Cress Welsing's The Isis Papers.
Websites:
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Chapter 31: Cross Cultural Themes and Studies
Discussions:
Texts:
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NOTES
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