Lots of people helped to make this page more comprehensive. Acknowledgements are at the bottom of this page. However, since I started keeping track of them September 10, 1995, I've left lots of them out. Please let me know who you are!
Ackerley, J. R. Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. British gay author's account of his life as secretary and confidant to an Indian maharajah. (First published in 1932.)
Allyn, Eric G., ed. The Dove Coos = Nok Kao Kan: Gay Experiences by the Men of Thailand, trans. Nukul Benchamat & Somboon Inpradith. Bangkok & San Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing Company, 1992. Stories by readers of three Thai gay magazines: Midway, Neon, and Weekendmen.
Allyn, Eric G., ed. The Dove Coos II: Collection 2, trans. David Jonathan; adapted for Western readers by E. G. Allyn & Samorn Chaiyana. Bangkok & San Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing Company, 1994. Selections from Thai gay magazines.
Allyn, Eric G. The Men of Thailand Revisited: Trees in the Same Forest. Bangkok & San Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing Company, 1991.
Alquizola, Marilyn. Okihiro, Gary Y. Rony, Dorothy Fujita. Wong, K. Scott. Eds.Privileging Positions, The Sites of Asian American Studies. Washington State University Press, Pullman, WA. 1995
Berry, Chris. A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire. Sydney: EMPress, 1994. Discusses the film Good Woman of Bangkok and critiques Asian governments that maintain gay rights are only a Western issue.
Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
Coalition of Vietnamese Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Network. Doi Dien/Face to Face: Voices of Vietnamese Lesbians, Gays & Friends. San Jose, CA: No. 1 (Summer 1993), No. 2 (Spring - Summer 1994).
Collcutt, Martin. Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Includes discussion of homosexual relationships within the monastery.
Devi, Shakuntala. The World of Homosexuals. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977.
Dynes, Wayne R., & Donaldson, Stephen, eds. Asian Homosexuality. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
Gay Asians of Toronto. CELEBRASIAN: SHARED LIVES. 1996. Can be obtained from bookstores, or though the GAT homepage. Harry, Joseph, & Das, Man Singh, eds. Homosexuality in International Perspective. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1980.
Haver, William, et al. Circuits of Desire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Anthology on Asian homosexuality, including Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Thai.
Herdt, Gilbert. Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. About the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea.
Herdt, Gilbert. ed. Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984.
Herdt, Gilbert. The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1987.
Herdt, Gilbert. Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History. Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, MIT Press, 1994. Anthropological/ethnographic chapters on Asian polysexualities by Niko Besnier ("Polynesian Gender Liminality Through Time and Spare"), Serena Nanda ("Hjiras: An Alternative Sex and Gender Role in India"), and Gilbert Herdt ("Mistaken Sex: Culture, Biology and the Third Sex in New Guinea").
Hinsch, Bret. Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.
Jackson, Peter A. Dear Uncle Go--Male Homosexuality in Thailand. Bangkok: Floating Lotus, 1995. Revision of Male Homosexuality in Thailand (below).
Jackson, Peter A. The Intrinsic Quality of Skin. Bangkok: Floating Lotus Publications, 1994. Race, masculinity and homosexuality in Thailand.
Jackson, Peter A. Male Homosexuality in Thailand: An Interpretation of Contemporary Sources. East Haven, CT: Global Academic Publishers, 1989. Translation and analysis of letters to and responses from advice columnist Aa Go Paak-naam, originally published in two Thai magazines Plaek and Mahatsajan.
Kakar, Sudhir. Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Kala, Arvind. Invisible Minority: The Unknown World of the Indian Homosexual. New Delhi: Dynamic, n.d.
Kong, Dan. Mak, Anson. Shan, Chow Wah. Coming Out for HK Queers. Only 20-30 copies are available so any orders will be on first-come-first-serve. All proceeds from sale of the book will go to HORIZONS funding of HK's only lesbian & gay counselling and support hotline service. For more information, email Dan Kong at dan15844@vol.net.
KoreAm Journal Gardena, CA: Korean American Publications, 1993.
Leong, Russell. Ed. Asian American sexualities : dimensions of the gay and lesbian experience. New York : Routledge, 1995.
Less than Gay: A Citizens' Report on the Status of Homosexuality in India. New Delhi: AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan, 1991.
Leupp, Gary. The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1995.
Leupp, Gary. Nanshoku: Homosexuality, Gender, and the Social Order in Tokugawa Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
Levy, Howard S. Sex, Love, and the Japanese. Washington: Warm-Soft Village Press, 1971.
Leyland, Winston (editor). Queer Dharma, Voices of Gay Buddhists. Over thirty-five writers and fifty separate works. Articles from various Buddhist traditions (Vipassana, Zen, Tibetan). An Introduction by the editor is followed by Kobai Scott Whitney's "Vast Sky and White Clouds: Is There a Gay Buddhism?". Gay Sunshine Press. (Check http://www.gaysunshine.com.)
Lim-Hing, Sharon, ed. The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994.
Mason-John, Valerie. ed. Talking Black: African, Caribbean, and Asian lesbians speak out. (Note: the term "black" in Britian is inclusive of people of Asian descent. The first anthology of Black lesbian writers in Britian. Cassell Press. 1995.
Mathews, Paul W. Male Prostitution: Two Monographs. Sydney: Australia Book Company, 1987. Observations of male prostitution in Manila.Miller, Neil. Out in the World. New York: Random House, 1992.
Moo, Joash. Sisterhood: The Untold Story. Singapore: Times Books International, 1990. True stories of transvestites in Singapore.
Moraga, Cherrie, and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Watertown, MA: Persephone, 1981.
Murray, Stephen O., ed. Oceanic Homosexualities. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. Includes studies ranging from Madagascar to Australasia: Filipino callboys, Siberian shamans, ancient samurais and contemporary lesbians of Japan, and aristocratic traditions of Hawaii.
Namjoshi, Suniti. Flesh and Paper. New York: Women Make Movies, 1990. Lesbian poet Namjoshi and others discuss her life and work between readings of her poetry.
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man nor Woman: The Hjiras of India. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990. Study of the eunuchs and transsexuals of India.
Ng, Vivien W. "Homosexuality and the State in Late Imperial China." in Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincinus and George Chauncey Jr., eds., Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, (New York: NAL, 1989), 76-89.
Ratti, Rakesh, ed. A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1993. Gay men and lesbians from India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries discuss their challenges and accomplishments.
Remoto, Danton; and Garcia, J. Neal, ed. Ladlad Pasig: Anvil, 1994. Has poetry, short stories, essays. Quality varies from superb to miserable. But even the miserable is woth something because this represents the first collection of Filipino gay writing.
Remoto, Danton; Seduction and Solitude Pasig: Anvil, 1995. Not all essays are gay but Danton writes as a gay man. Sharp, incisive style. Actually a collection of stuff that appeared as newspaper articles, ranging from memories of childhood to gay community activities.
Robertson, Jennifer Ellen. Butch and Femme on and off the Takaruka Stage: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Organization in Japan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1989. Lesbianism in Japan.
Santos, Aida and Villar, Giney. Woman to Woman. Poetry, essays, and fiction.
Schalow, Paul Gordon. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism. In, Cabezon, Jose Ignacio, ed., Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Schneebaum, Tobias. Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle. New York: Grove Press, 1988. About the Asmat people of Irian Jaya.
Scott-Stokes, Henry. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1974.
Sharma, Satish Kumar. Hijras, the Labelled Deviants. New Delhi: Gian Publishing House, 1989. Analytical study on the congenital hermaphrodites and castrated eunuchs of India.
Silvera, Makeda (ed.) Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology. Toronto: Sister Vision Press,1992. 185-192.
Singco-Holmes, Margarita Go. A Different Love - Being Gay in the Philippines Anvil Publishing Inc., 1993. A Different Love is a collection of letters from readers of her Manila Times column (and her response) that deals with homosexuality.
Singco-Holmes, Margarita Go. Different Love: Nag-iibang Pagmamahal Same as above, in Filipino.
Singh, Khushwant, & De, Shobha, eds. Uncertain Liasons: Sex, Strife, and Togetherness in Urban India. New Delhi: Viking Penguin, 1993. Includes a section on homosexuality by Ashok Row Kavi.
Sribuaiam, Kanongnij. Living Together: Rights of Heterosexual and Homosexual Couples in the U.S. and Thailand. 1991. In Chulalongkorn Law Review, Vol. 6 (1989-1990).
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia. Mana Wahine Maori: Selected Writings on Maori Women's Art, Culture, and Politics. Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1991. Author is a Maori lesbian.
Two Films by Ang Lee. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994. Includes article on award-winning Taiwanese film "The Wedding Banquet" by Neil Peng, Ang Lee, & James Schamus.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Amerasia Journal: Dimensions of Desire. ISBN 0044-7471 Special issue of Amerasia Journal; includes autobiographical accounts and critical essays about gay and lesbian Asian/Pacific Americans.
Vyas, M. D., & Shingala, Yogesh. The Life Style of the Eunuchs. Flushing, NY: Asia Book Corporation of America, 1987. A study of the hjiras of Vadodara City, Gujarat, India.
Watanabe, Tsuneo, & Iwata, Jun'ichi. Love of the Samurai: A Thousand Years of Japanese Homosexuality, trans. D. R. Roberts. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1989.
Whitam, Frederick L., & Mathy, Robin M. Male Homosexuality in Four Societies: Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986.
Yourcenar, Marguerite. trans. Alberto Manguel. Mishima: A Vision of the Void. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1986.
