Indonesia’s crackdown on gay men: ‘It doesn’t get better, does it’
Indonesia’s crackdown on gay men: ‘It doesn’t get better, does it’
- December 20, 2017
- Tom Boellstorff, anthropology, via The New York Times, Dec. 20, 2017
Historically, gay and transgender Indonesians have been accepted — if poorly understood — as long as they married people of the opposite sex and had children, said Tom Boellstorff, an anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, and author of “The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/world/asia/indonesia-gay-raids.html.
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