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Gary L. Atkins is an award-winning journalist whose works include the critically acclaimed Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging and his new book, Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok and Cyber-Singapore. He specializes in creative non-fiction journalism, fusing an easy-to-read narrative style powered by strong characters with questions about history, geography, communication, and social justice. Gay Seattle follows the 100-year-long saga through which gay men and women imagined their “coming home” – rather than just their “coming out” -- in the context of the Pacific Northwest’s famously wet landscape and roguish history. Similarly, Imagining Gay Paradise journeys through a century of imaginings of paradise and manhood by gay men i...more


Good news....my publisher tells me that the initial runs of both the hardback and paperback of "Imagining Gay Paradise" are now printed and making their way out from Hong Kong to SE Asia, the United States, and Europe.

Romantically I imagine the copies finding warm spots on bookshelves in stores across Bangkok, Singapore, Amsterdam, Leiden, Ubud (where Walter Spies fashioned his and the rest of... Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 19, 2012 17:33 • 138 views • Tags: bali, bangkok, gay, glbt, history, journalismok, paradise, singapore
Average rating: 3.71 · 17 ratings · 1 review · 3 distinct works · Similar authors
Gay Seattle: Stories Of Exi...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
Imagining Gay Paradise: Bal...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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