“This book explores the everyday lives ofgaymen in Hainan, an island province of the People’s Republic of China. Taking an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, it asks how these men construct and experience ways of ‘sexual being’ – asgay,homosexual,tongzhiand/or in the scene – and what these mean for the ways of living they see as possible within a socio-cultural, political and material context characterised by pervasive heteronormativity. It explores what it means forgaymen in Hainan to ‘come into the scene’, how internet and mobile technologies figure in their...