Queer at Your Own Risk: Marginality, Community and Hong Kong Gay Male Bodies

Sexualities

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-30

  Shiu ki, Travis Kong ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

gay politics; Hong Kong gay male bodies; social exclusion; space; visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247666285     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460704040136     Document Type: Article

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