Hawaii's Polysexual Past

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Hawaii's Polysexual Past

http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?id=21037&section=67
Matthew Link
12/1/2008

Cross-dressers, queer concubines, and the Sin of Onan -- the Hawaii of pre-European contact had it all.

Most LGBT travelers to Hawaii think of the islands as a languid society, a "hang loose" place of tolerant politics where cultural differences are easily celebrated. But few tourists realize just how queer Hawaii actually was before the Europeans showed up.