UC San Diego UC San Diego Previously Published Works Title The Softening of Butches: The Adoption of Korean ‘Soft’ Masculinity among Thai Toms Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s683685 Author Kang, Dredge Publication Date 2021-06-28 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Chapter Title: The Softening of Butches: The Adoption of Korean “Soft” Masculinity among Thai Toms Chapter Author(s): Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen Book Title: Pop Empires Book Subtitle: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea Book Editor(s): S. HEIJIN LEE, MONIKA MEHTA and ROBERT JI-SONG KU Published by: University of Hawai'i Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv7r429w.7 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms University of Hawai'i Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Pop Empires This content downloaded from 137.110.33.121 on Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:00:42 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 1 The Softening of Butches The Adoption of Korean “Soft” Masculinity among Thai Toms Dredge Byung’chu Kang-Nguyen I’m riding the BTS Skytrain with my gay friend Beer.1 He looks across the way and finds someone especially attractive.