A review by booksteabedby7
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East by Benjamin Law

adventurous funny informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This is a great book for anyone interested in travelogue and/or LGBT cultures around the world. Each chapter is dedicated to Law’s observations and interviews as a gay Australian Chinese man in a different South/East Asian country. Not all chapters will interest everyone, and I admit the final two had be quickly skimming due to a large focus on AIDs that I wasn’t fully vining with. However the chapters dealing with Trans women in Thailand and visibility of gays in China were really interesting. I recommend it but also would encourage all readers to excessive various degrees of ‘focused reading’ depending on your interest in the chapter’s focal issue.