Asian Pacific American gay and lesbian households in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles areas have lower standard of living than non-Asian same-sex households, census analysis reveals. More...

Non-Fiction:

Making of a Gay Asian Community : An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles. Eric Wat. Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN: 0742511103, 2002
Book Review: Remember the Entire Community of Gay Asian Pacific Americans in Los Angeles.

Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites? : The Asian Ethnic Experience Today. Mia Tuan. Rutgers University Press, ISBN: 0813526248, 1999

Q & A : Queer in Asian America (Asian American History and Culture). David L. Eng & Alice Y. Hom. Temple University Press, ISBN: 1566396409, 1998

Asian American Sexualities : Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience. Russel Leong. Routledge, ISBN: 0415914361, 1995

Fiction:

Letters to Montgomery Clift. Noel Alumit. MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ISBN: 1931561028, 2002

Vietnamese Literature: HIV
HIV and Filipinos

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•  From New Scientist: Why are the Asians the Unhappiest People?
What is Happiness? An Interview with Ed Diener, a "Professor of Happiness" at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. More...

•  From PBS Ancestors in the Americas: Asian American History More...
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•  From GWM Perspectives
Their reasons were usually ones of not finding other Asians attractive and actually being repulsed by the idea of becoming sexual with another GAM. The other consistant fact I discovered with GAM, is a desire to date an older man. I am more desireable in the GAM community now than when I was 23. More...

•  Gay or Asian? Spread Causes Minority Uproar
Is Details Magazine telling us to judge someone, based on their physical appearance, and use offensive stereotypes to explain their identity? Is it saying that it's too difficult to discern between a homosexual male and an Asian male, or it is saying that you can only be Gay or Asian? More...

•  Gay or Asian Uproar
The Model Minority. The Yellow Peril. The China Doll. The "silent" world of the Asian American is full of stereotypes and marginalized images. A recent spread in Details, a men's fashion magazine, has recycled another stereotype, that of the effeminate or, in this particular article, gay Asian male, resulting in an online uproar. More...

•  Young Gay Asians Act Out
A satire in Details Magazine’s April issue entitled "Gay or Asian": the feature is loaded with sentences that mocked Asian men, describing them as having "sashimi-smooth chest," "soft and long ladyboy fingers" and "bonsai ass." When there is misrepresentation of gay Asians in such Media as Details Magazine, young gay Asians acted out. More...

•  Asians Picket Magazine, Call Feature Demeaning
While Asian-American groups roundly denounced the feature, the negative response had Details editors rushing to get an editor's note into the May issue explaining that "we regret that anyone was offended by the article, as that was not our intention." More...

•  Asian or Just a Person Like You?
The magazine Details printed an infographic entitled "Gay or Asian?"— a collection of stereotypes of Asian American men as effeminate, materialistic outsiders. The piece has enraged the Asian-American community, male and female, gay and straight. More...

•  Just Married: Efren and Howard
Efren Bose and his partner of seven years, Howard Kwong, are one of the 2,340 same-sex couples who had married in San Francisco by Monday night after Mayor Gavin Newsom challenged California state law last Thursday by ordering the county clerk to issue "gender-neutral" marriage licenses. More...

•  American Heroes of the Asian Prodigal
First Published in LGBT Quakers. History is replete with legends about resourceful Americans who champion Asian youth. These stories chart the rise of a prodigal (literal or spiritual) who returns to the feudal East as a key democritizer after mentoring by an American mariner, poet, or religious radical. More...

•  Interracial Dating
So, what I'm getting at is that it's not the race or color that's as important as the characteristics of the person and the attributes they bring to the relationship. More...

•  An Ideal Coming Out
I've heard coming out stories as diverse as our levels of outness and activism, cultural expectations and creeds. Yet at the same time these vast differences exist, there is also something all of us have in common: the yearning to be accepted for who we are as people — as lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders who at the same time are Asian Pacific Americans. More...

•  Profile of Hoover Lee
According to his friends, this Chinese Hawaiian's rise to grand marshal for the 2002 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade is an honor that has been long overdue. More...

•  B.D. Wong's Real-Life Journey to Becoming a Gay Father
Wong correctly insists "Following Foo" is not a book about gay parenting or even about parenting itself, as opposed to a journey of self-discovery that anyone is forced to take by cataclysmic events in his or her life. More...

•  Interview with B. D. Wong
While rebounding from the death of one child and the life-threatening illness of another, B.D. Wong won't be taking it one day at a time. More...

•  Interview with Ryan P Reyes
Filipino American activist Ryan Reyes tells Fridae about how he got involved in gay activism, his concept of "gay Asian empowerment" and being outed to his parents when he was 13. More...

•  Young, Gay, and APA
To be young, gay and APA is to simultaneously confront the ugly specters of barriers and discrimination that come with being gay in America and those that come with being Asian in America. More...

•  Chemistry Isn't Color-Blind
"We're at the bottom of the pile, right along with black women," said the young Taiwanese-American, his face red with frustration. He was speaking out at a local dinner/discussion event titled "Mating and Dating in the Asian American Community." The rage among the men in that room was palpable as they spoke of a lifetime of sexual invisibility in a culture that constructs them as either effeminate or repulsive. More...

•  How America Unsexes the Asian Male
The Japanese-American actor Marc Hayashi once said to me: "Every culture needs its eunuchs. And we're it. Asian-American men are the eunuchs of America." I felt an instant shock of recognition. To my chagrin, I came close to being one such eunuch on screen in the Coen brothers' movie "Fargo." More...

•  Interview with Lim Chi Sharn
Lim is a graduate student in Geotechnical Engineering at the UC Berkeley. The openly gay 22-year-old is studying under a prestigious Public Service Commission (PSC) Overseas Merit Scholarship awarded by the Singapore government and will serve a bond with the Singapore Civil Service upon graduation. He tells Fridae of his experiences coming out to his friends in Singapore and in California and why he has chosen to be out. More...

•  Boiling Rice
New to L.A. and wanna know where I can go clubbing without being harassed by tons of creepy Asians. I went to the Factory and that's all there were. Which is cool, do yr thing, but its not my thing. I am into white/latino/mideast men, i.e., eyelids and real noses. Plz advise. More...

•  The Resurrection of a Family
The story of Alexander and Jane Nakatani is about the creation and destruction and, ultimately, the resurrection of a modern-day Japanese American family. It is also a story of the cost of homophobia, denial and self-deception. More...

•  Japanese American Citizens League, Marriage and Civil Rights
In 1998, the Japanese American Citizens League National Convention decided to acknowledge the rights of members regardless of sexual orientation in the JACL constitution. It is now the year 2002, and JACL is one of only a few organizations that has taken up that position. More...

•  Gay Nikkei Pioneers
At a time when the issue of homosexuality barely registered a blip on the Asian American radar, Tak Yamamoto, June Lagmay and other Japanese Americans refused to live in anonymity. Nowhere did they wear their sexuality more proudly than in their home community. More...

•  In the Realm of the Sansei
Recently a Vietnamese-American friend was giving a talk at a local college about Asian-American sexual politics. He pointed out the commonplace that while Asian and Asian-American women — from the geisha in Madame Butterfly to the bar girls in Miss Saigon — are seen as sensual, exotic creatures, Asian men are typically seen as unattractive, even sexless. More...

•  Coming Out, in My Own Words
At the Catholic school I went to, subjects such as sex were hardly ever discussed. Catholicism buries sexuality under the rug by teaching everyone to abstain from sex. For a while, I seriously thought about entering the priesthood. I saw it as the easy way out. By becoming a priest, I thought I would never have to handle issues dealing with my sexuality. More...

•  They're Hot. They're Sexy... They're Asian Men
We had been seen as inscrutable by nature, bookish in appearance, small in stature, and how that added up to the painful truth: We weren't the masculine ideal. At the same time, our Asian sisters enjoyed a free pass on the benefits of a decidedly different reputation: exotically beautiful and culturally mysterious. More...

•  Social Misconceptions about Gay Asian Americans: The China Doll Syndrome
The social identification as "Asian American" carries with it a long history of typecasting and marginalization in American society, from barred immigration to the model minority stereotype, all affecting each subculture within the Asian American community. More...

•  Racism; between Queers of Color
Like many straight Asians, many queer Asians limit themselves to white and Asian partners. Like many straight Asians, some queer Asians try to distance themselves from other Asians in order to fit in with whites. More...

•  Asian; Homophobia Overrated
An Asian emigre in the US recalls dumping a white ex-bf who did not respect the immigrant's culture and background. According to the Asian man, the white man had no interest in understanding the struggles and sacrifices of his Asian boyfriend's family. More...

•  I Am Gay, but I Am not Represented
As we approach Pride Week, let us remember that we need to be counted. We, Asians and other ethnic groups alike, have earned our rights as citizens of the United States. We have earned our respect in the fabric of society, and we have paid our dues. More...

•  Things Are Gradually Improving for Vietnamese-Amercian Gays
"The general perception is that it's no longer a silent taboo, that homosexuality is not a physiological disease," said Alex Hoa, in his 40s. "I believe the public has recognized my peers, that we are part of the Vietnamese Diaspora. As for their acceptance, it's only a partial embrace. The initial moral judgment persists." More...

•  The Truth about GAM
It seemed that the only white men who were interested in dating Asians were "rice queens" -- a non-Asian man, usually much older, who dates Asian men exclusively, with a single-minded passion bordering on fetishism and with attendant expectations of how Asians should behave. More...

•  No Queers Here
According to UC Irvine’s World Values Survey, here and there, Vietnamese-Americans in Southern California say they’re not crazy about gays... Little Saigon residents had their own unusual take on homosexuality: most said it doesn’t exist. More...

•  Learning to Love Your Asian Self
The idea of two Asians in that kind of intimate relationship was just too weird to him. We were the exceptions, the "freaks," even though there is a vast history that connects him and me. More...

•  My Peaceful Gay Life
Because I'm a gay Asian man, they presume two things: that I'm living it up in the queer world or that my life is difficult because I live in two cultures (a queer one and a Vietnamese-American one) whose values sometimes conflict. My life really lies in the realm of the ordinary and the mundane. More...

•  My Coming Out Story
As I went through my middle school and high school years, I noticed that this attraction I had towards other guys was becoming more serious. With all the things I was taught from my Korean church and my family about the traditional religious and Korean family values, I knew and believed that it was absolutely wrong to be gay. More...

•  Piecing Together My Racial Identity
Race and racial identification have always been confusing concepts for me. My P.E. teacher was amazed that I was half-Japanese. He said, "Wow, you really don't look Japanese at all. You look white." He smiled. Perhaps he was hitting on me. More...

•  Proud to Be and Fresh off the Boat
Being a minority within a minority, I find that there are no role models for me. I am a gay Asian immigrant, and not knowing anyone in a foreign country is extremely terrifying. You're being introduced to a new culture that you know nothing about. More...

•  Gay Asian Pride!
Being gay and Asian in America is like fighting a two front battle.   One not only has to fight racism and homophobia of society in general, but also stereotypes and lack of representation in the gay community.  More...

•  Gay Asian American Male - Identity Crisis
To be gay and Asian is at most times a contradiction. Ethnicity and sexuality, while vastly different concepts, run parallel in terms of self-identity and societal acceptance. And for gay Asian Americans, these two aspects are intricately intertwined. Even when gay Asian Americans come to terms with their sexuality, they have to find a place in the community where their ethnicity is a welcome fit. More...

•  Interview with Morris Kight
Morris Kight was a founder of Christopher Street West, the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, and Stonewall Democrats. Morris Kight was instrumental in helping organize the Asian Pacific Islander gay and lesbian civil-rights movement in Los Angeles over 20 years ago. A tireless crusader, Morris Kight has also served as the Commissioner on the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission since 1980. More...

•  Community of Asian
An UCLA student came up to me recently in my class and said he wanted to do some research on West Hollywood and why some Asians felt alienated in it. Being a Filipino and a WeHo resident, he recalled being followed by cops (and stopped once) the first few months when he moved into the city a couple years ago. More...

•  Proposition 6 of 1978
On March 7, California voters will decide on Proposition 22, a ballot initiative that would make gay and lesbian marriages illegal in California, even if they were recognized in another state. This is not the first time California voters confront a proposition against gays and lesbians. More...