Homo Odyssey: Adventures of a World Traveler [Paperback]

A gay Muslim in Berlin, a young gay man bewildered and lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a rent boy in Shanghai; a holiday romance in Mexico; a man from Dakar in a bathhouse in Paris; a love hotel in Tokyo; a darkroom in Rio; a hamam in Syria; the burning ghats on the Ganges; Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto and atheist; legal and illegal & blazing through 17 countries on six continents, Homo Odyssey is an upfront, edgy, often funny, travel memoir that will leave you seeing the world and yourself with different eyes. How do men sexually attracted to other men live in different parts of the world? How do they see themselves? How have they survived over the centuries, mostly in places hostile to them? IntroductionMasree & Dahoud  Banana Island  Luxor, EgyptWilliam  Pagan rites  Damascus, SyriaAnonymous  I'm a Berlin boy, now  Berlin, GermanyMusa  Between two worlds  Paris, FranceJussef  The outsider  Marrakesh, MoroccoHakim, Asma & Julio  After darkroom  Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAbel/Isobel  Swapping sex  Toronto, CanadaChester  The invisible ghetto  New York, USAGiovanni, Jos? and Santos  Sexploitation  Havana, CubaSergio  Macho  Cancun, MexicoDiego, Rico, Gregg, Scott & Kate  Good citizens  M?rida, MexicoChavez & Pepe  For a few dollars more  Mexico City, MexicoMichael  Archangel  Los Angeles, USAAdan and Xolelwa  Black but blue  San Francisco, USALee and Rex  The edge of the world  Auckland, New ZealandDaniel  Out cloning  Sydney, AustraliaHiroshi, Hilton & Jiro  Avatars in bed  Tokyo, JapanLao Ping Lee  The cut sleeve  Shanghai, ChinaJason  Address lost  Bangkok, ThailandMuahmmad and Terrence  Singabore  SingaporeEpilogue  India & a lot of beautiful writing about interesting places, with a few laugh out loud moments too. Brent Meersmans latest book is strong medicine & Part autobiography, part social theory, Meersmans immersive study of sexual desire and the cultures that cloak and shape it, is a musl“ä