Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience
Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US.\ Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality...
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Asian American Sexualities is the first collection of works by and about gay and lesbian and bisexual Asian and Pacific Americans that includes empirical research, critical scholarly essays, personal accounts, interviews, and creative writing by Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, South Asian, Pacific Islander, Filipino and biracial persons. Popular conceptions of Asian American homosexuality have been confounded with orientalist notions of Asian sexuality or by media accounts of the prostitution and pornography industries in the U.S. and Asia. Some Asian Americans themselves view same-sex sexuality as a sign of decadence. Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US.Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationship of the gay and lesbian experience to Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies is also explored.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Home Bodies and the Body Politic11Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America212Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons373Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City514Breaking through the Chrysalis: Hanh Thi Pham655Preserving the Paradox: Stories from a Gay-Loh716Living in Asian America: An Asian American Lesbian's Address before the Washington Monument (1979)837Strategies for Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Spaces858In Our Own Way: A Roundtable Discussion919From the 1970s to the 1990s: Perspective of a Gay Filipino American Activist10110Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature11311Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet11912In the Shadows of a Diva: Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly13113Notes on Queer 'N' Asian Virtual Sex15314Toward a Struggle against Invisibility: Love between Women in Thailand16315Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave17516Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn18117Communion: A Collaboration on AIDS20118My Grandmother's Third Eye22119Bak Sze, White Snake22320Tita Aida (for Jorge F. Casaclang)22721River Deep: & All Those Pretty Women23122Grandma's Tales23323Queer Pilipino Rebolusiyon: with ms. nikki giovanni to thank for23924Fascination, Gravity, and a Deeply Done Kiss24325Aloes: from The Country of Dreams and Dust247Contributors251
