ABSTRACT
A growing number of authors (for example, Miller, 1992; Altman, 1995; Sullivan and Leong, 1995) have observed that the proliferation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender/transsexual (g/l/b/t) identities is increasingly a global phenomenon. In particular, Altman’s (1996) discussion of ‘global queering’ has provoked considerable debate, with Halperin (1996), Morton (1997), Connors (1997) and Stivens (1997) having presented critiques, to which Altman (1997) has responded.1
