Contents -- Contributors -- A Note on Thai Transcription and Citation of Thai Names -- Queer Bangkok after the Millennium: Beyond Twentieth-Century Paradigms -- I - Markets and Media in Bangkok's Queer Cultural Transformations -- 1 - Bangkok's Early Twenty-First-Century Queer Boom -- 2 - Competing Cultures of Masculinity When Thai Transgender Bodies Go Through Muay Thai -- 3 - Back in the Spotlight: The Cinematic Regime of Representation of Kathoeys and Gay Men in Thailand -- 4 - Loves of Siam: Contemporary Thai Cinema and Vernacular Queerness -- 5 - Encounters in the Sauna: Exploring Gay Identity and Power Structures in Gay Places in Bangkok -- 6 - Cyberspace, Power Structures, and Gay Sexual Health: The Sexuality of Thai Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in the Camfrog On-line Web-cam Chat Rooms -- II - Queer Bangkok in Twenty-First-Century Global and Regional Flows -- 7 - The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: "Race", Labour, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics -- 8 - Bangkok's Beautiful Men: Images of Thai Liberality in an Indonesian Gay Novel -- 9 - Speaking of Bangkok: Thailand in the History of Gay Singapore -- III: LGBT Activism, Rights, and Autonomy in Thailand -- 10 - Capitalism, LGBT Activism, and Queer Autonomy in Thailand -- 11 - The Language of Rights, Deviance, and Pleasure: Organizational Responses to Discourses of Same-Sex Sexuality and Transgenderism in Thailand -- 12 - The Rainbow Lobby: The Sexual Diversity Network and the Military-Installed Government in Thailand -- 13 - Transpeople (Khon kham-phet) in Thailand: Transprejudice, Exclusion, and the Presumption of Mental Illness -- Notes -- A Glossary of Thai LGBT Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.