LGBT transnational identity and the media LGBT transnational documentary Becoming Christopher Pullen Trauma and triumph: documenting Middle Eastern gender and sexual minorities in film and television Rebecca Beirne Samar Habib Transsexual in Iran: a fatwa for freedom Sahar Bluck Sub Saharan African sexualities transnational HIV AIDS educational film and the question of queerness David Oscar Harvey The floating fleeting spectacle of transformation: queer carnival gay pride and the renegotiation of postapartheid identities Ernst van der Wal The Argentinean movement for same sex marriage Margaret Cooper The politics of reclaiming identity: representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api Andrew Hock Soon Ng Queer (im)possibilities: Alaa Al Aswanys and Wahid Hameds The Yacoubian building Stephanie Selvick Andrew Salkey James Baldwin and the case of the leading aberrant : early gay narratives in the British media Kate Houlden The exotic erotic: queer representations in the context of post colonial ethnicity on British TV Peri Bradley Documenting the queer Indian: the question of queer identification in Khush and Happy hookers Bryce J. Renninger Screening queer India in Pratibha Parmars Khush Daniel Farr Jennifer Gauthier Gay pornography as Latin American queer historiography Gustavo Subero Quo vadis queer vato Queer and loathing in Latino cinema Richard Reitsma Queer art of parallaxed document: visual discourse of docudrag in Kutluǧ Atamans Never my soul! (2001) Çüneyt Cakirlar The drag queers the s he binary: subversion of heteronormativity in Turkish context Serkan Ertin If art imitated reality: George Takei coming out and the insufferably straight Star Trek universe Bruce E. Drushel A Chinese queer discourse: camp and alternative desires in the films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye Jason Ho Ka Hang This collection offers a critical introduction to LGBT transnational identity within the media examining performances and representations within documentary television film radio and online new media.