Authors: Russell C. Leong
ISBN-13: 9780415914376, ISBN-10: 041591437X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Home Bodies and the Body Politic | 1 | |
1 | Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America | 21 |
2 | Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons | 37 |
3 | Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City | 51 |
4 | Breaking through the Chrysalis: Hanh Thi Pham | 65 |
5 | Preserving the Paradox: Stories from a Gay-Loh | 71 |
6 | Living in Asian America: An Asian American Lesbian's Address before the Washington Monument (1979) | 83 |
7 | Strategies for Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Spaces | 85 |
8 | In Our Own Way: A Roundtable Discussion | 91 |
9 | From the 1970s to the 1990s: Perspective of a Gay Filipino American Activist | 101 |
10 | Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature | 113 |
11 | Funny Boys and Girls: Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet | 119 |
12 | In the Shadows of a Diva: Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly | 131 |
13 | Notes on Queer 'N' Asian Virtual Sex | 153 |
14 | Toward a Struggle against Invisibility: Love between Women in Thailand | 163 |
15 | Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave | 175 |
16 | Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn | 181 |
17 | Communion: A Collaboration on AIDS | 201 |
18 | My Grandmother's Third Eye | 221 |
19 | Bak Sze, White Snake | 223 |
20 | Tita Aida (for Jorge F. Casaclang) | 227 |
21 | River Deep: & All Those Pretty Women | 231 |
22 | Grandma's Tales | 233 |
23 | Queer Pilipino Rebolusiyon: with ms. nikki giovanni to thank for | 239 |
24 | Fascination, Gravity, and a Deeply Done Kiss | 243 |
25 | Aloes: from The Country of Dreams and Dust | 247 |
Contributors | 251 |