Homo Odyssey

A gay Muslim in Berlin, a young gay man bewildered and lost on the highways of Los Angeles; a rent boy in Shanghai; a holiday romance in Mexico; a man from Dakar in a bathhouse in Paris; a love hotel in Tokyo; a darkroom in Rio; a hamam in Syria; the burning ghats on the Ganges; Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Shinto and atheist; legal and illegal … blazing through 17 countries on six continents, "Homo Odyssey" is an explicit, upfront, edgy, often funny, travel adventure that will leave you seeing the world and yourself with different eyes. How do men sexually attracted to other men live in different parts of the world? How do they see themselves? How have they survived over the centuries, mostly in places hostile to them?



Brent Meersman is a well known journalist, critic and columnist in South Africa. He is currently co-editor of the groundbreaking news site — GroundUp.org.za. His novels include "Primary Coloured", "Reports Before Daybreak", "Five Lives at Noon" and "Sunset Claws". A compulsive traveler; at last count he'd been to 80 countries and traveled around all the continents, including the Antarctic. Out of these experiences came "Homo Odyssey".