Menagerie 7: People Like Us

Andrei Aksana, et al.
Editors: Erza Setyadharma

Menagerie 7: People Like Us brings together twenty stories by or about “people like us:” Indonesian gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals. This is a book that should have “come out” a long time ago. Not only do the stories disprove the persistent yet baseless myth that all forms of sexuality and sexual behavior that fall outside the norm of socially acceptable heterosexual behavior are not, somehow, “Indonesian,” but they also show that the Indonesian archipelago is as multi-sexual as it is multiethnic.