Dr. Tom Boellstorff University of California, Irvine Many homosexual men in Indonesia speak what they call bahasa gay ‘gay language’, a linguistic phenomenon based upon…
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Tom Boellstorff is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, USA and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. He obtained his bachelors degrees in Linguistics and Music and later obtained his Ph.D in Anthropology from Stanford University. He also went to Advanced Indonesian Institute for Language study in Makassar, Indonesia. He is the author of The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia.
Many homosexual men in Indonesia speak what they call bahasa gay ‘gay language’, a linguistic phenomenon based upon bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), Indonesia’s national language. Bahasa…