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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the New Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Setting the Virtual Stage -- Chapter 1. The Subject and Scope of This Inquiry -- Chapter 2. History -- Chapter 3. Method -- Part II: Culture in a Virtual World -- Chapter 4. Place and Time -- Chapter 5. Personhood -- Chapter 6. Intimacy -- Chapter 7. Community -- Part III: The Age of Techne -- Chapter 8. Political Economy -- Chapter 9. The Virtual -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Indonesian Terms and Italicization -- Introduction: Queering disciplines in time -- One. Zines and zones of desire -- Two. Warias, national transvestites -- Three. Gay language, registering belonging -- Four. Between religion and desire -- Five. The emergence of political homophobia -- Six. Comparatively queer in southeast Asia -- Notes -- References -- Index

The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. Yet the case of gay and lesbian Indonesians also compels us to ask more fundamental questions about how we decide when two things are ""the same"" or ""different."" The book thus examines the possibilities of an ""archipelagic"" perspective on sameness and difference.

This paper explores an unprecedented series of violent acts against 'gay' Indonesians beginning in September 1999. Indonesia is often characterized as 'tolerant' of homosexuality. This is a false belief, but one containing a grain of truth. To identify this grain of truth I distinguish between 'heterosexism' and 'homophobia,' noting that Indonesia has been marked by a predominance of heterosexism over homophobia. I examine the emergence of a political homophobia directed at public events where gay men stake a claim to Indonesia's troubled civil society. That such violence is seen as the properly masculine response to these events indicates how the nation may be gaining a new masculinist cost. In the new Indonesia, male-male desire can increasingly be construed as a threat to normative masculinity, and thus to the nation itself.

This paper explores an unprecedented series of violent acts against 'gay' Indonesians beginning in September 1999. Indonesia is often characterized as 'tolerant' of homosexuality. This is a false belief, but one containing a grain of truth. To identify this grain of truth I distinguish between 'heterosexism' and 'homophobia,' noting that Indonesia has been marked by a predominance of heterosexism over homophobia. I examine the emergence of a political homophobia directed at public events where gay men stake a claim to Indonesia's troubled civil society. That such violence is seen as the properly masculine response to these events indicates how the nation may be gaining a new masculinist cost. In the new Indonesia, male-male desire can increasingly be construed as a threat to normative masculinity, and thus to the nation itself.