Final Project_Eric Luo
In this project, I would like to discuss gay tourism and the gay tourist sites in Asia in the age of globalization. I found some books and articles of discussing gay tourism in American or European context, but less in Asia context. Such as Jesbir Kaur Puar writes in her essay of gay tourism, “Circuits of Queer Mobility: Tourism, Travel, and Globalization”, she points out that “discussions of gay and lesbian tourisms have not yet been contextualized in terms of neocolonialism in large part because the venues focused on are still mainly in North American and Europe” (2002: 112). Therefore, I am interested in discussing the gay tourism in Asia in the context of globalization and postcolonialism. I would like to take Bangkok as the major gay tourist site in Asia in my discussion; due to not only it is the most famous gay friendly and popular gay tourist site in Asia but also it’s booming sex industry. In addition to this, I would like to bring up the discussion of not only gay tourism and gender/sexual performativity but also the intersection of sexuality and ethnicity in my paper.