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Peter A. Jackson, PhD, is a Research Fellow in Thai I listory in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at Australian National University in Canberra. Fluent in spoken and written Thai, Dr. Jackson has conducted extensive research on gay and lesbian communities in hangkok and nearby provinces. [)r. Jackson was a founding member of the Australian (lay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force and helped develop a Thai language curriculum in Australian high schools. His book I)c'ar Uncle Go: Mule iiomofrxualiv in Thailand (1995) was the first major study of male hornoeroticism in Thailand. His other books include Buddhism, Legitimation, and Conflict: The Political I'unclions of Urban Thai Buddhism (1 989), The Intrinsic Quality' of Skin (1994), and the forthcoming hook Lady Boys, Tom Boys, l?eni Boys: Male and Female IIomoexualuws in Contemporary Thailand (The I laworth Press, Inc.). Gerard Sullivan, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Bchavioral Sciences at the University of Sydney in Ausralia. His research interests in gay and lesbian studies include civil rights, health issues, and the social construction of homosexuality in different cultural contexts. A board member of the Australian Centre for Lesbian and (lay Research, Dr. Sullivan is also the co-editor of Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the' Pacific: Social and Human Services (The Flaworth Press, Inc., 1995) and the forthcoming book Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Reizi Boys: Male and Female Homosexualuws in Con:L'mporaly Thailand (The Haworth Press, Inc.)