Acknowledgements
Gilbert Herdt is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Human Sexuality at the California Institute of Integral Studies, USA, and Emeritus Director of the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University, USA.
John Gagnon is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
Saskia E. Wieringa is Chair in Women's Same-Sex Relations Crossculturally at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.