Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.

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REBECCA BEIRNELecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia SAHAR BLUCKworks in production for a creative advertising agency PERI BRADLEY Associate Lecturer in Film and TV at Southampton Solent University and University of Southampton, UK CUNYET CAKIRLAR Research Associate in the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK MARGARET COOPER Sociologist at Southern Illinois University, USA BRUCE DRUSHELAssistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Miami University, USA SERKAN ERTIN Currently teaching at the Western Languages and Literatures Department, Kocaeli University, Turkey DANIEL FARRIndependent Scholar living and working in Lynchburg, USA JENNIFER GAUTHIERAssociate Professor of Communication Studies at Randolph College in Virginia, USA SAMAR HABIB Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley's Beatrice Bain Research Group and a visiting Professor at San Francisco State, USA DAVID OSCAR HARVEYPhD candidate in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA ANDREW HOCK SOON NGSenior Lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Malaysia JASON HO KA-HANGTeaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong KATE HOULDENPhD graduate in the English Department of Queen Mary, University of London, UK STEPHANIE SELVICKPhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Miami, Florida, USA GUSTAVO SUBEROSenior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Coventry University, UK RICHARD REITSMAAssistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA BRYCE J. RENNINGERPhD candidate in the Media Studies program at Rutgers University, USA ERNST VAN DER WALLecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

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List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction; C.Pullen PART I: POLITICS & CITIZENSHIP LGBT Transnational Documentary 'Becoming'; C.Pullen Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television; S.Habib & R.Beirne Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?; S.Bluck Sub-Sahara African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness; D.O.Harvey The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Post-Apartheid Identities; E.Van Der Wal The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage; M.Cooper The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api; A.Hock Soon Ng PART II: ADAPTATION & POST COLONIAL TRANSITIONS Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building; S.Selvick Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the 'Leading Aberrant': Early Gay Narratives in the British Media; K.Houlden The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the context of post-colonial ethnicity on British TV; P.Bradley Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers; B.J.Renninger Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush; D.Farr & J.Gauthier PART III: PERFORMANCE & SUBJECTIVITY Gay pornography as Latin American queer his/toriography; G.Subero Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema; R.Reitsma Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001); C.Çakirlar The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context; S.Eertin If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, And The Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe; B.E.Drushel A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye; J.Ho Ka-Hang Index