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Into the light: the Thai lesbian movement takes a step forward.

Women's Studies Center

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The following article originally appeared in Women in Action (3:1998). It was written by Andrew Matzner, a writer/researcher from the United States, who has been living in northern Thailand since October of 1997. His areas of interest and expertise are gender, sexuality, and transgenderism.

Anjaree, Thailand's only lesbian organization, has a thick newsletter which comes out every two months. In order to receive it, one writes to Bangkok with remittance and an address to which the newsletter is then forwarded Approximately five hundred members of Anjaree, plus a number of NGOs, receive the newsletter, called Anjareesan, in this manner.

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