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A GLBTQ EDUCATION INTERNET RESOURCES Race / Ethnic Minority Issues  North America, Europe & Australia/New Zealand Site of the Month (Jan. 2000): Crosspoint Anti Racism

Index: Race/Ethnic Minority Issues: U.S., Canada, Europe,  New Zealand & Australia -  - Latin America / Africa -  - Middle East / Asia -  - Homosexuality:  Biological  or  Learned ? -  -  Public School Issues -  - Transgender / Tranvestite / Transsexual -  - Lesbian  &  Bisexual Women -  - Homo-Negativity / Phobia -  - Identity Formation  &  Coming Out -  - Counseling  &  Therapy -  - Professional Education  -  - Bisexuality -  - Religion   &  Spirituality -  - Male  Youth Prostitution -  - HIV-AIDS -  - Gay & Bisexual Male Suicide Problems -  - Drug / Alcohol Use / Abuse / Addiction  -  - GLBT History - - Community Attributes  &  Problems -  -  Couples / Families / Children / Adoption / Spousal Violence -  - The Elderly

Race / Ethnic Minority Issues in North America,  Europe & Australia / New Zealand

Part 2 (This Page): Asian-American / Canadian (Chinese - Korean  - Japanese - South Asian - Vietnamese -- General Asian Resources: Web Resources - Bibliographies. - Books. -- American, Canadians & Europeans of Middle East Origins: Web Resources - Books. -- General Resources for Peope of Color, including Racism Issues. - Books. -- Full Text Papers.

Part 1: - Aboriginal People in Canada & United States: - Web Resources & Bibliographies - Books. / Australia. -- Latin-American / -Canadian: - Web Resources & Bibliographies - Books. -- African-American / -Canadian: - Web Resources & Bibliographies - Books.
 

A Collation of Information related to racism issues: "Racism in Predominantly White Gay and lesbian Communities"

CHINESE-AMERICAN & -CANADIAN

C S S S M: Chinese Society for the Study of Sexual Minorities; A Newsletter.  - (English Version of Newsletter.) -   "Chinese gays and lesbians from around the world met in San Francisco  June 26 - 28 [1998].". - Portrait of gay playwright Chay Yew ("Red"). (Related Google.com search) - Asian Gay Faces Double Prejudice (Canada). - In July 2000, Edward Cheng Ming Tang - a Chinese immigrant, successful businessperson, father and gay man - established the Pride Scholarship to help APA lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth achieve educational pursuits and dreams, proudly and without shame. -  Under One Roof: "A highly erotic and funny romantic film about two guys in love - one from a traditional Chinese-American family and the other with single California style mom." - Race, Sexuality Make for a Two-Pronged Fork: Asian-American gays face dual problems: A Gay, Chinese-American Perspective.

Constructing Masculinities and Experiencing Loss. - My race, too, is queer. - Tracing Chinese Gay Cinema 1993-2002. - Ethan Mao: Gay Chinese-American Boy's Struggle in Hollywood-ish Crime Thriller. - Was Mom Chung "A Sister Lesbian"? Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism. - The Gay Asian American Male: Striving to Find an Identity: “When I hear ‘gay community’ I automatically think ‘white.’ Being gay seemed like such a white thing. It never occurred to me that you can be Asian and gay,” says 22-year-old college student Alex,* who is of Chinese descent. “Even though I’m Asian and gay, I just never associated the two. It was always one or the other.”

Dress Like a Boy - 2000 - by Quentin Lee (Amazon). - Chinese-American Life Behind ‘Red Doors’: "Riverton mentioned that the LGBT community in the United States has embraced the film. The community praised the lesbian relationship between Riverton’s character and Elaine Kao when “Red Doors” was screened as part of Outfest, the first LGBT film festival in the United States, where it took several awards. “I was surprised that they were interested in featuring us,” Riverton said. “The lesbian relationship isn’t a huge part of the movie—only a small one.” Riverton is nonetheless glad for the positive reception amongst the LGBT community." - Mounting the Nian: The Theatre Offensive unveils an award winner: "If you’re 23 years old and about to premiere your first full-length musical, you probably don’t mind the climb up five steep flights of stairs to the rehearsal hall on the top floor of the Boston Center for the Arts. And it’s okay that you’re sweating through rewrites, not to mention filling in as rehearsal pianist while six actors run through the songs you’ve written about being a young, gay Chinese-American mindful of the disconnect between your heritage and the culture of your new land."  - Saving Face: An Asian American Lesbian Love Story. - Saving Face: A Chinese-American Romcom: A Romantic Comedy Set in the Chinese-American Community of New York.

Mei Ng: Mei Ng was born and raised in Queen’s Village, New York. She graduated from Columbia University in 1988 with a degree in women’s studies. She was also a student at Brooklyn College’s graduate program in fiction writing. Temporarily, she worked as counselor for the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Ng is the third and youngest child of Chinese immigrant parents. Family and the dynamics of Chinese-American socialization into the US are at the center of Ng’s widely reviewed novel "Eating Chinese Food Naked" (1998), her only novel to date.  - Jay Kuo: Musical theater's bright new light: How a young, queer, Chinese-American charmer from San Francisco is making showtunes exciting again. - Ohm-ma (Film): "Using older photographs of her mother's youth, super-8 footage of Toronto's Korea town, along with images of her own present-day life, this intimate narrative video-letter critically explores connections between love, gender, race, sexuality and national identity by a young queer-identified Korean-Canadian woman." - Ruthann Lee: born and raised in Toronto. She is a doctoral student at York University in the Graduate Programme in Sociology. Among other things, she identifies as a radical queer Korean Canadian writer, theorist, artist and activist.

Book launch: "‘An Asian gay man’s coming out journey’: "Award-winning Malaysian writer, columnist and former journalist o.young (Ouyang Wenfeng) will launch his latest title An Asian Gay Man’s Coming Out Journey in Singapore this week. In this book, written in Chinese, he gives an honest account of his experience coming out as a gay man during his recent years of teaching and research in the US. He will also share details about the part that his ex-wife, family and the church played in a process in which he realized that one can never lead a complete life unless one is to be honest with oneself..."

2006 GSBA, Richard Rolfs & Brandon F. Newton Law Scholars: Amanda Nguyen (Olympia): a first generation Vietnamese American, is pursuing a degree in media studies and nonprofit work at the Evergreen State College. Amanda sees media production as a powerful means for creating social change. She is working on a short documentary about the cultural experience/identity of a bisexual Vietnamese-American woman.

Thousands of Chinese American Christians rally in support of traditional marriage.

Gay Activism in Asian and Asian-American Churches. - Queer Asian Spirit website. - China Rainbow Association (CRA): a social support organization serving the gay Chinese community in Los Angeles. - China Rainbow Network: site by gay Chinese from the mainland for support and friendship.

Resources: - Queer Asian Pacific American Links.  - British Born Chinese Lesbian: Articles. 

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KOREAN-AMERICAN & CANADIAN

A Korean guy's viewpoint: I Thought I Would No Longer Be a True Korean or a True Asian If I Came Out as an Openly Gay Person. Alternate Link: PDF Download) - Korean American Christians and Gay Rights. - Edinburgh: A Novel - 2002 - by Alexander Chee. - CHO FUN - Our Favorite Noodle. - Margaret Cho (Actress and Comedian). - Wikipedia: Margaret Cho. - Skim Skimma: a queer, Korean-American, hip-hop artist who speaks on issues such as queer identity, third world liberation, and the prison industrial complex..." - Skim: For Every Tear.

Divided We Fall:  The press conference was called to trumpet the formation of the Korean Americans for Civil Rights, (KACR), whose founding members are the Gay Asian Pacific Support Network, Korean immigrant Workers Advocates, and the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium. As described in the press release, the organization's objectives are: educating the Korean community about anti-gay initiatives; conducting a series of forums to raise awareness on gay and lesbian issues in Korean churches; and fostering long-term alliances in the Korean-American community. To help achieve these goals, the coalition published full-page ads in two major Korean-language newspapers..."  - Straight From the Church: How Korean American churches in California rallied against gay rights.

The Dari Project Goes to KASCON! The Dari Project will represent LGBT Koreans at the 20th annual Korean American Student Conference (KASCON) at Princeton University, March 23-26, 2006. Dari will bring a strong, visible LGBT Korean presence to the national conference of 2,000 Korean American college students... Dari's contingent will include youth, women, trans folks, and adoptees. Speakers will include noted organizers working in economic justice, gender rights, media advocacy, health and HIV/AIDS, multilingual organizing, and other social, political, and educational work. And we'll talk about Dari's plans to produce a bilingual resource material sharing LGBT Koreans' experiences with coming out, relationships with our families, affirming faith, building community, etc." - The Dari Project was created to develop resources that are designed to increase understanding and awareness in the Korean American community of the issues faced by LGBTQ people of Korean descent by documenting our lives and stories. The project aims to provide a voice for progressive change in the Korean American community around issues facing queer people..."

Coloring the Media: "It’s a good thing Andy Marra likes to keep busy. It’s not just that the Korean American transgender activist is Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s Asian-Pacific Islander Media Fellow, or that she’s served on the boards of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA). It’s that the 20-year-old transgender woman—pictured here accepting a 2005 Creating Change Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force—manages to do all of this while attending school full time; pursuing both a political science bachelor degree and a masters in public administration."

2003 3rd Annual San Francisco Korean American Media Arts Festival: "Made in Korea": "Three women, Laurie (Eun Ah), Pam (Sung Ah) and Amber (Sook Ji), who were adopted from Korea by middle class white families in the 1970s, were raised as white straight kids. But they are not white, nor straight. Minorities within minorities, queer Korean adoptees, they are telling their stories of evolving journeys to find and construct who they are as Korean and queer..." - Rice: Explorations into Gay Asian Culture + Politics - 1998 - Edited by Song Cho: "After recounting the experience of going to gay bars in Ottawa and "feeling like I was drowning: the whiteness was so complete," Cho expresses ongoing frustration at being lumped together with those of other backgrounds in the category "Asian": "To internalize 'Asian' as my identity is to see myself as an outsider would see me, where the rich cultural and historical specificity of my Korean culture is homogenized and erased, while permitting the oppressor to dwell in his cultural ignorance." Whether it is the fault of white people failing to differentiate among Asian/Pacific backgrounds or those building pan-Asian/Pacific identities, organizations, and politics, Cho does not specify...

Crossroads: a queer-enhanced and technology-enabled adaptation of the "Choose Your Own Adventures" books popularized in the 1980s. Illustrated with original comix and presented on the Web, Crossroads invites the reader to make a choice at the end of each chapter: for instance, "Your parents invite you to Bible Study. Do you say yes? Turn to page 41." Based on fictionalized accounts of "true stories," Crossroads will launch with the pilot story, a coming out adventure story about a Korean American lesbian who faces conservative Christian family members and both support and apprehension from the people around her. The reader's choices have direct consequences for how the story unfolds in Crossroads. Coming out is presented as a narrative journey and an adventure in itself -- and the form of sequential art reflects the series of choices involved in coming out. Storytelling is also used as an essential part of community-building and resource-sharing. Judy Han is the principal writer/artist/programmer behind Crossroads. Judy has been active in progressive and queer Korean/American movements for over twelve years, and her articles and artwork have been published in Sojourner: The Women's Forum (June 2000)..."

An Hour or a Year (by Jenie Pak): "I sit in a cubicle and daydream about changing my life. Having a new career doing meaningful work, where I know how to laugh, how to hug, and cry! I imagine coming out to my father, "By the way, I'm a lesbian. I don't like guys. I like girls, get it? Do you want me to throw some more dried cuttlefish on the stove for you?" ... Instead, they got me, a big lesbo. While all of their friends' kids are getting married, I'm living in San Francisco with my "roommate," my "bestest friend." It's great how people can't bear to say the word: lesbian, dyke, gaygirl. My mother asks, "Did something bad happen to you in college?" I want to tell her it's a blessing -- this love for girls... My conversations with my mother aren't any better. "Why don't you meet a nice boy," my mom begs. "You're a young lady now -- wear some dresses and grow your hair out." "The mother is talking to herself," I reply. " She is making jokes and enjoying herself, and the daughter is silently crying inside." ..."

Reflections: On the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) 2004 conference: "The great thing about KAAN for me again this year, as in past years, is the embrace of all my identities, all my realities, that I feel at KAAN. Here, I need not hide or downplay any aspects of my multi-layered identity, as is so often the case in the outside world. The fact that I, an Asian-American a transracial adoptee, a gay man, a parent, and even a journalist, is simply accepted as a fact about me, and the dialogue moves on. It’s hard to overstate the profound sense of belongingness and the ease that creates for me, someone whose life has been defined by unusualness. One thing I can assure anyone who is thinking about attending a KAAN conference: If you think you have an unusual or challenging life-story, you’re bound to meet someone with a more unusual or challenging one there..." - A Few Thoughts from a Korean, Adopted, Lesbian, Writer/Poet, and Social Worker.

Lee, Jee Yeun (1998). Toward a queer Korean American history. In: David Eng & Alice Hom (Eds.), Queer in Asian America, pp. 185-209. - Lee, Jee Yeun (1996). Why Suzie Wong Is Not a Lesbian. In: Brett Beemyn and M. Eliason (Eds.),  Queer Studies: A Lesbian,. Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Anthology, pp. 115-32. - Chung G, Oswald RF, Wiley A (2006). Good Daughters Three Different Ways of Being Korean American Queer Women. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 2(2), pp. 101-124. Abstract. - Sohng S, Icard LD (1996). A Korean Gay Man in the United States: Toward a Cultural Context for Social Service Practices. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 5(2/3): 115-138. Abstract. 

Utopia's Korean Resources.- Pridelinks. - Utopia: Korean Lesbian Resources. - Chingusai Los Angeles N/A. - Chingusai, NY.

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

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JAPANESE-AMERICAN & CANADIAN

Workshop: Discussion questions include: How can queer youth interact with the rest of the JA community? Is there a Homosexual JA community? What are the views of Issei, Nisei, and Sansei etc. parents/friends¹ on homosexuality? What is the future of the homosexual Japanese American? - Research Summary: Glb Japanese in U.S. - Humor, Perception, and Identity N/A. - Tamai Kobayashi Interview: "From the Future Bakery to Old Man Dam, Tamai Kobayashi reveals the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Asian-Canadian lesbians and their families with a quiet intense passion. Kobayashi has a sharp eye for the poetic in the everyday, and for the small resonant truths that gleam amidst the seemingly mundane. Contemplative, generous, and precise, this is a book about how history, personal and global, creates the present and how the present evolves into history." - Out of the Closet, Onto the Bookshelf: "Perhaps unexpectedly, gay fiction is often open to the problems of other minorities. At the Out/Write conference I met gay Japanese-American writers, gay Pueblo Indians, gay black writers, and heard a whole panel devoted to gay Jews...."

Robert Imada: a native of Sunnyvale, California. He graduated in 1998 from Homestead High School with honors... n high school, Robert was active in his local LGBT Community Center and a LGB speakers bureau. After coming out as gay to his parents when he was 16, he came out to his entire high school through the campus newspaper as a columnist for the publication. Since then, Robert has continued to put himself at the forefront of Queer and racial justice activism as a gay Japanese-American man..." - Statement by Japanese American Citizens League Director of Public Affairs Kristine Minami Opposing the Federal Marriage Amendment: "This is why the JACL opposes the Federal Marriage amendment - because we believe discrimination in any form is un-American.  When any of us are denied the rights and privileges enjoyed by others, society as a whole is hurt and our national purpose diminished.  Our country was founded on the belief that freedom and liberty are basic, fundamental guarantees, but unfortunately we live in a society that requires vigilance to protect our civil liberties and human rights..."

Paul Kawata: National Minority AIDS Council: "When Paul Kawata agreed to serve as executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) in 1989, the organization had a staff of four and operated on an annual budget of about $700,000. Sixteen years later, Kawata oversees a 40-person operation with a budget of $7 million. "This was supposed to be a four-year gig," he says with a laugh. "And I'm still here."  A 2000 interview reporting on early life issues such as xoming out to family member and his partner (Must Scroll: PDF Download).

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. The class was mainly white, with a few Asian Americans and African Americans. They protested that this was an overstatement. My friend asked if any of them had ever found an Asian man attractive. No one raised their hand. To me, this shouldn't be surprising. Growing up Japanese in 1950s America, I never saw an image of an attractive Asian man, much less a Japanese-American man like me. Instead, the heroes and great lovers were all white: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Marlon Brando. In those years, the typical image of a Japanese male was Mickey Rooney as the buck-toothed, mop-topped bespectacled photographer, screaming at Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, angry at her for constantly ringing his doorbell..."

National Japanese American Heritage Historical Society: Nikkei Heritage, 14(3), 2002: Gay and Japanese (PDF Download)... Contents: JACL, Marriage and Civil Rights, On Our Honor: Boy Scouts and the BCA, From the Past: A Gay Life, Gay Nikkei Pioneers, The Good Fight: Kiyoshi Kuromiya, A Hidden History, Not-Queer, Not-Asian, Not-Black, Resurrection of a Family, No Denial: Paul Kawata, Dancing on the Moon: Jill Togawa, A Nikkei Church and its Covenant. - Gay Nikkei Pioneers. 

HIV Risk and Testing Behavior of Japanese Men in US Who Have Sex With Men: Preliminary Findings: "Japanese men in the U.S. who have sex with men (MSM) have disproportionately been affected by the AIDS epidemic. In San Francisco, which has the highest proportion of Asian AIDS cases in the U.S., a total of 773 Asian AIDS cases have been reported as of December 2000.1 Of these 773 cases, Filipinos had the largest number (270), followed by Chinese (194) and Japanese (97). When adjusted for population size of each ethnic group, however, the Japanese community (8.1 per 1,000) had the highest prevalence of AIDS compared to the Filipino (6.0 per 1,000) and Chinese community (1.5 per 1,000). Also, 84% of Japanese AIDS patients in San Francisco have contracted HIV through homosexual contact and 33% of these patients are citizens of Japan..."

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights: (Amazon) "Yoshino has written a book that is both treatise and memoir. Taking his cue from Erving Goffman's introduction of the term "covering" (in Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity), Yoshino writes from his own experience as a young gay Japanese American who is also a lawyer and scholar at Yale University. Covering, Yoshino proposes, is "to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream" (ix). He identifies three historical and individual stages of dealing with disfavored identity: conversion, in which the individual and/or society try to transform an identity to render it more acceptable (for example, attempts to convert homosexuals into heterosexuals); passing, in which the individual hides the undesirable identity to a greater or lesser extent depending on circumstances; and covering, in which the individual openly acknowledges the undesirable identity but suppresses behavioral aspects of the identity that could draw unwelcome attention (for example, a gay male publicly holding hands with or kissing another gay male)..." - Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Rising law-prof star's book analyzes the ways we pass—and throws in a cri de coeur.

Lifestyles and identity maintenance among gay Japanese-American males. - Gay Love in Japanese Manga.

The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Country: Japan).- Utopia's Japanese Resources. -  Obituary: Asian American Gay Pioneer: Kiyoshi Kuromiya (Alternate Link).

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

Academic Searches: Search IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. - Search Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search The National Library of Medicine.
 

'SOUTH ASIAN' - AMERICANS &  - CANADIAN: The Mela (Toronto, Includes Music).

Bisexuality in South Asian Communities. - Cultural constructions of male sexualities in India. -  Queering Gender: Trans Liberation and Our Lesbigay Movements (Trikone Magazine. July issue. 14(3): 6-8 & 18): presents some of the problems in GLB communities such as the existence of genderqueers, the tyranny of the gender binary, transphobia and related violence / abuses, biphobia, class factors, and related transcultural issues. - Out and Out Radical: New Directions for Progressive Organizing. 

'This isn't just a fantasy world': A new British film depicts a young Asian lesbian whose family is so accepting that her mum plays matchmaker. Is this anything like reality, asks Sara Wajid. - SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection) is a magazine/website with a South Asian focus based in the United States: Topic = Queer. - For Straights Only: "When her brother comes out to her as a homosexual, the film maker is motivated to survey the conditions and attitudes encountered by gays and lesbians in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the rest of Southern Asia." - Related Information.

Like Ganesha? Show hard: "Traditional attitudes are also in play in Toronto's South Asian community, though tempered by Canadian realities. Haran Vijayanathan, 26, came out to his mother only after he'd completed his undergraduate degree. "It was important to my mother because she was a single parent," he says. He felt he owed it to her to wait, since her divorce violates a major taboo in the Tamil culture, and having a son who's gay makes it a "double whammy." But the freedom of movement his mother experienced after her divorce helps her to understand his own need to slip the bonds of tradition. "She said, 'I was forced to do things in my life, so I want you guys to do what makes you happy.'" Some uncles and older cousins are clearly uncomfortable with his revelation; cordial but now distant, especially physically. Then again, South Asian queers can find the same reaction in Toronto's gay bars and bathhouses. "There's not just racism of white folks toward brown folks but also internal racism, like romanticizing the idea of having a white boyfriend or a black boyfriend," says Vijayanathan of Dosti.ca, a support group for South Asian men who have sex with men. "It's quite rare that you find someone looking for another South Asian." "

Chutney Popcorn: An Interview with Nisha Ganatra: "Nisha Ganatra is the director, co-writer and star of Chutney Popcorn, a touching new comedy about the shifting relationships in an Indian-American family.... Being American enough to not feel at home in the country your parents came from, but ethnic enough to not fit in in America or be considered "American". It's a really specific but universal feeling and it contributes to feeling invisible in American society... We still live in a very homophobic society so I can't imagine a gay person's parent not going through this emotion..." - Touch of Pink: "A Canadian south Asian man - who has Cary Grant's spirit talking to him -living in London tries to convince his visiting mother that the man living with him is just his roommate... The gay director and screenwriter, born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and raised in Canada, has little to worry about. Reactions to “Touch of Pink” have been very positive. After the 92-minute romantic comedy made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Rashid received scores of offers from other film companies to write and direct more films in this genre." - A Conversation with Touch of Pink's Ian Iqbal Rashid, Jimi Mistry, and Kyle McLachlan. - Pride and Prejudice: Ismaili Muslim Community Touched Pink.

Gopinath G (1998). Queer diasporas: Gender, sexuality and migration in contemporary South Asian literature and cultural production (Ismat Chughtai, Shyam Selvadurai, Shani Mootoo, India), PhD Dissertation, Columbia University: "Queer Diasporas examines the literatures and popular cultural forms produced by South Asians in migrancy in various diasporic sites: Canada, Britain, the United States, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Taking the South Asian diaspora as a paradigmatic site of transnational cultural production, the dissertation demands that we locate the formation of racial, sexual, and gender subjectivities both across multiple national sites as well as in specific localities..."

MIT student organizing gay South Asian film fest. - 'Between the Lines' explores South Asian LGBT identity: "Organizing big projects is nothing new for Parmesh Shahani. Before he left his native Bombay, Shahani worked in the media--writing for Elle magazine, helping get cricket onto Sony Television, and launching an online magazine for disaffected teenagers. His latest challenge: organizing, producing and publicizing MIT's first lesbian- and gay-themed South Asian film festival..." - Between The Lines: The Films. - Film Fest Speakers. - Sholay Productions Heats Up the Gay South Asian Scene (PDF Download): "Anuja Madar visits one of Sholay productions' monthly parties in Manhattan and speaks with the crew responsible for New York's successful gay South Asian parties... The company promotes Bollywood to the gay South Asian masses, so it should be no surprise that it got its name from one of the most popular Hindi films of the 70s, Sholay, which means flame or fire. The film's two male protagonists are depicted as close friends, but those in the gay community see something more in their relationship. "They sing songs to each other, and the words are those that you would sing to your lover," says Rajesh, 35. The name, Rai says, is also representative of their audience, particularly drag queens, who have grown up idolizing Bollywood films and their stars..." - Indian Actress in American Lesbian Film - Post Bollywood Controversy! - Constructing-Contesting Masculinities: Trends in South Asian Cinema.

The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (Toronto): "The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention is a community-based, non-profit, charitable organization committed to providing health promotion, support, education and advocacy in a non-discriminatory manner for those who identify as South Asian living with and affected by HIV/AIDS." -  Desh's mid-life crisis Community / Popular fest looks to its roots as success, sparks criticism: Toronto's South Asian Queer Community... "Nelson Carvello, a founding member of Khush (Toronto's South Asian queer boys club) and one of the original organizers of Desh Pardesh, says: "The first years of Desh were very political, creative, exciting and scary all at the same time!" In 1986, the Khush boys, with the help of the Gay Asians Toronto, organised an event called Salaam Toronto (Desh's predecessor) at the 519 Church Street Community Centre. "We wanted to expose our families to our realities as queer South Asians," says Carvello. "And at the same time we also wanted to expose the white gay and lesbian community to our lives in more than a tokenistic fashion. There was so much creativity and we had a lot of fun, but the vision was always about outreach - outward and inward."

Kapadia R (2005). We're not gay; we're just foreign!: Desi Drags, Disidentifications and Activist Film in New York. Comparative Cultural Studies, Spring (PDF Download): "This piece considers a moment of South Asian queer cultural production in the diaspora, specifically the activist film “Julpari” made in New York City. The documentary, produced for the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) by Khuragai Productions, follows a group of South Asian urban immigrant male drag queens as they build community, practice drag and complicate what it means to be an immigrant and queer in New York City..."

Live and Let Love -Sometimes the Making of a Story: "Many years later when I chose to do the story it was because of a couple of conversations that I had with two gay men. One told me that the suicide rate and depression had catapulted to alarming proportions among south Asian gays and also that the number of south Asians coming out was increasing at a high rate. At that time I was freelancing for the largest south Asian publication in the south east, among others. I decided that since this was an issue that must be brought to light a South Asian publication would be an ideal vehicle. Initially the publishers were very hesitant... Finally after weeks of going back and forth they agreed to publish the piece. Then came the reactions. One of my brothers, a total homophobe was aghast. “Why are you doing this? ... When they were told, after the initial shock Navarun was even told to get married and continue to see his boyfriend on the side. Navarun refused. Vismita went on to make an award winning documentary called” For straights only”. At that time she said to me, "There is not even a respectful Indian word to describe homosexuality in India and I would feel very anguished at the thought that all those people who love my brother and look up to him are just going to be disrespectful once they found out he was gay. You have jokes about this terrible portrayal of people who are gay and insinuations that are perverse, especially
in Hindi movies... As I heard story after story, there were days I would put my head on my writing table and weep tears of anger and frustration. It was hard to accept the fact that someone’s sexual orientation could become the sum of their personality and the freedom I took for granted could be denied to someone, based on what they did in the privacy of their bedroom...Finally after 3 months of research, incessant interviews(I was ambushed by almost 500 emails daily from all over the world during those months from people wanting to share their stories) I finally sent the story out. A couple of days before the story was to go to the press the magazine dropped it. I was told that if I left out the bisexuals and transgender people they would carry the story. Their reasoning- bisexuals were the horribly promiscuous people who made a grab for both sexes and no one really talked about transgender people... Today 3 years later, I don’t see much change. Also while Canada legalized same sex marriages thanks to the initiative taken by Ujjal Dosanjh the Canadian Health minister, who I know personally and admire tremendously, the condemnation he faced from the Sikh community big wigs for being a part of that historic decision, when he went to India was devastating..."

Rungh Magazine, 3(3) - Queering the Diaspora (Only available in Google Cache): How Do You Say ‘Queer’ in ‘South Asian’?: Editorial by Ian Iqbal Rashid, Guest Editor. - Notes on a Queer South Asian Planet: Gayatrai Gopinath on Queer Transnational Cultures. - Queer Screen... Desi Dykes: Pratibha Parmar’s Filmi Fantasies. - Destiny Desire Devotion: Atif Ghani reviews Zahid Dar’s first film. - Artist Run Centre... Interrupt: Alistair Raphael’s haunting postcard image. - Barbie (and Annie) Go South Asian... Barbie’s New Home: Barbie thinks she smells curry. Image/text piece by Adrienne Vasanti Salgado and Ian Iqbal Rashid. - Oriental Mistress, Plastic Passions: Digital Collage by Anita Kaushik. - Tantrik Droplets: Looking for South Asian lipstick lesbians, Sonali Fernando finds Annie Sprinkle instead. - Memory and Mourning... Her Sweetness Lingers: Ian Iqbal Rashid reviews Shani Mootoo’s sexy, evocative new video. - ‘Funny’ Boys and Girls... A Stranger’s View: Kathleen Pirrie Adams on Tanya Syed’s Queerness. - Corporealities of Desire: Smaro Kamboureli examines the poignant, painful worlds of Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy. 

Resource Links: - Samalinga: South Asian Resources. - SALGA-NY's Resources: Internet Publications for: Australia - India - Nepal - Pakistan - South Africa - United Kingdom - Canada - Malaysia - New Zealand - Singapore - Sri Lanka - United States (Home Page). - The Khush page: Organizations - Literature - Cinema - Who's Who - News - Links. - Gaysia: This site is for gay asian men from the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and  Pakistan,  resident in The United Kingdom and their friends. - Gaysia Articles on Gay Life. -  South Asian Lesbian And Gay Association of New York: SALGA-NY is a social and political group for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender people who trace their descent from countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet as well as people of South Asian descent from countries such as Guyana, Trinidad and Kenya. - The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAP).

Trikone, San Francisco. - Trikone Magazine. - Chicago's South Asian/ Middle Eastern Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Women's Organization. - Dar Newletter. - The Khush Page: For and about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered South Asians. - For and about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered S. Asians Organizations: Literature - Cinema - Who's Who - News...Links. -  Chicago's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Organization and Support Group for the people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran, Burma, and rest of the South Asian countries. - Sri Lankan Gay Friends. - Queer People and Allies of South Asian Descent. - Books, films, and more: The (future) Trikone Northwest Library.

Trikone-Tejas N/A: a pan Asian queer-straight alliance at University of Texas, Austin: "We are committed to ending racism and gender-based prejudice (sexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia) on campus with a focus on our diverse Asian-origin communities here."  

www.dosti.ca: website  for gay, bisexual and transgender South Asians (Toronto). - Leather and Desi. - Sex Without Regret! - Resource Links.

South Asian American Studies A Working Bibliography 1975-1994. - Bibliography on Homosexuality in the Indian-American Community. - Gay South Asian Literatures.  - Books, films, and more: the trikone-northwest library. - Bibliography on South Asian Americans, 1988-1998. - Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora. - Bibliography of Materials on South Asian Gay, Lesbian Concerns. - Bibliographies and Other Resources: Gender and Sexuality (South Asia).

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures - 2005 - by Gayatri Gopinath (Review) (Amazon) (Summary). - Correlates of high-risk sexual behaviour among Canadian men of South Asian and European origin who have sex with men. - Harm reduction among south Asian men who have sex with men at Toronto bathhouses. 

Male 'Homosexualities' In India / South Asia: Excerpts from - Khan, Shivananda (2001). Culture, sexualities, and identities: men who have sex with men in India. Journal of Homosexuality, 40(3/4), 99-115 (Full Text). - Asthana S, and Oostvogels R (2001). The social construction of male 'homosexuality' in India: implications for HIV transmission and prevention. Social Science & Medicine, 52: 707-21 (Abstract).

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VIETNAMESE-AMERICAN & -CANADIAN

Vietnamese Study Internet resource Center: "Lam, B.T. 1994. Psychosocial Adjustment and Coping Strategies Among Vietnamese American Gay Men. MSW Thesis, California State University, Long Beach." (Brian Lam, Adjunct Faculty at CUSSW) - HIV Prevention Evaluation Initiative: "We found that issues with gay Vietnamese men were surfacing, and so to determine if they had specific needs, we planned to do separate focus groups with them and compare responses with general gay Asian men. But because of our resources, we found that we did not have the capacity to conduct these focus groups and to carry out a specific program." - What Are Asian and Pacifc Islander HIV Prevention Needs? - Asian and Pacific Islander American HIV community-based organizations: a nationwide survey. - Stigmatization, HIV/AIDS, and communities of color: exploring response to human service facilities.

From Saigon to San Francisco: Two Journeys: "Tony came to the U.S. from Vietnam when he was 17 and eventually settled with his family in San Jose. When he was 22, his older brother discovered that he was gay and told him to leave the home they shared... "Shame is used in Asian and Pacific Islander cultures to remind individuals of their obligation to their families and their communities. Saving face means acting in ways that support family and social values and structures"... When he was 17, Lam realized that he was attracted to men. "I was completely scared, so scared. In Vietnam it was really bad. If you acted gay or like a woman they teased you. It was really painful." In school the word "gay" wasn't known. Instead the French word "pede" was used derogatorily for men who looked or acted feminine." - Vietnamese radio show shines a light on gay issues.

Vietnamese Literature: HIV (PDF Download) - Vietnamese Literature: HIV and Vietnamese I (PDF Download N/A) (Download Page).  - Vietnamese Literature: HIV and Vietnamese II (PDF Download N/A). - AIDS Puts Vietnamese Community, Too, at Risk Health: Study says disease seems to be spreading among male homosexuals, indicating culture isn't enough to protect the population. - Emergence of Queer Vietnamese America. - Negotiating multiple identities in a queer Vietnamese support group. - HIV/STD Infection.

Alex Hoa: - AIDS Puts Vietnamese Community, Too, at Risk Health: Study says disease seems to be spreading among male homosexuals, indicating culture isn't enough to protect the population (1993): "Alex Hoa, the HIV/AIDS coordinator of the Gay Asian Pacific Support Network, said that Vietnamese gays have been late to organize and that many are still afraid to disclose their sexual orientation. As a result, he said, "we don't have an Asian face attached to AIDS." - Alex Hoa (Updated Apr, 2002): After attending GAPSN Lunar Celebration in 1992, Alex Hoa had the pleasure and the privilege to serve on the board as social chair. Until 1996, he had hold various board positions and worked in different committees. He was a recipient for 1995 GAPSN Angel Award. He is continuously proud to call GAPSN his first home, his first family. - Things Are Gradually Improving for Vietnamese American Gays (2002) "Diem, the weekly entertainment magazine, publishes ads for social and health services at the Orange County Gay and Lesbian Center. It also printed a full-page notice for Cafe Tinh Trai, a support group for Vietnamese gays that meets each Sunday and is sponsored by the Asian Pacific Aids Intervention Team. Mimi News, a bilingual monthly, profiled Sabrina, a popular Vietnamese transsexual, in its March issue while Hop Luu, a literary journal, recently published a poem by Le Nghia Quang Tuan, celebrating sexual intimacy between two men. More and more, ethnic radio and television debate gay issues in talk shows. "The general perception is that it's no longer a silent taboo, that homosexuality is not a physiological disease," said 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." And so do the myths, he adds, that gay Viets are "artistically inclined," doing well only in "beauty-oriented businesses." ... - APAIT Pulse (The newsletter of the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, 2003, PDF Download): In the Orange County office, Alex Hoa joins us as the OC Men’s Program Coordinator. Until this time he has been the facilitator for the Tinh Trai Vietnamese men’s group. - Pre Pride Party (2006): Performances by famous cai luong cross-gender actor Jayvee Mai The Hiep and queer activist Alex Hoa!

Le Cannibale (A Poem by Alex Hoa in DOI DIEN (face to face) MAGAZINE, probably the first Vietnamese publication featuring gay/lesbian writers prominently.  Here are the few pages from the 3 issues of DOI DIEN, from various writers and a very beautiful layout of our models.).

Child of 10% (Poem) (Alternate Link).  Alex Hoa's poem is related to suicide. Alex Hoa "knew he was gay at 6 years old, said it was easier for him to come out to the gay community than it was to tell other Vietnamese. Eight years ago, when he did tell his mother, it took another year before Hoa told her he sometimes dressed as a woman. Though he has found acceptance in the Vietnamese gay community here, it is much harder for those in Vietnam. Gay Vietnamese men lead double lives - a wife and kids, and a boyfriend on the side, Hoa said. (Viet students probe cultural gap N/A by Binh Ha Hong, The Orange County Register , May 7, 2000) - Laguna Beach Beating Opens Closed Asian Door: "Homosexuality: A Growing Orange County Group is Trying to Overcome the Gay Taboo in Vietnamese-American Families...  Pham, who is not gay, said he started the group after his gay brother, a Catholic who could not accept his sexuality, committed suicide at age 28, and after his Vietnamese girlfriend came out as lesbian."

Brother and I (by Toan Nguyen, PDF Download, Must Scroll): "Also at this time I had fallen in love with my English teacher. I was so happy and tought I had finally found the freedom to love and the man of my life. But just a year later, one week before he was to leave New York, my friend said good-bye to me. My world shattered. I was in aa strange land and homesick. The man that I loved so deeply and passionately just walked out on me. It hurt so much that I entered a severe depression that I though I would never escape. I stayed in bed for days without eating or drinking and lost so much weight. I wanted to die."

Nguyen Tan Hoang: a gay Vietnamese American video artist and academic. Nguyen's own research interests include Asian American masculinity in gay male video porn and Hollywood and international cinemas. - Nguyen Tan Hoang: Pirating the Popular Culture: Video artist Nguyen Tan Hoang spoke and showed eight of his experimental short films at Vassar yesterday. His works are ranging from four to eighteen minutes addressing various topics such as gay Asian American, Vietnamese pop cultures, and sex stereotype of Asian male in mainstream America media. Hoang received his Studio Art’s MFA at the UC Irvine, and is working on his PhD in Rhetoric/Film Studies at UC Berkeley... The video starts off with clips of fleeing boat people then progresses into homosexual pirates. Even though the piece relates to the Vietnamese people, he hesitates to show it to them because he concerns about the homosexual context..."- Pirated: Using a nonlinear "pirated television" editing technique the filmmaker recounts his escape from Vietnam as a child complete with capture by pirates and rescue by West German sailors and reveals the impact events played in developing his sexual identity. A film by Nguyen Tan Hoang. 2000. 11 min. - Short Bio: "His critical essay, "The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star," will appear in the anthology Porn Studies (Linda Williams, Editor), from Duke University Press in 2004." - Some information about Bradon Lee: 1, 2.

Danny Thanh Nguyen:  "Danny Thanh Nguyen is a co-creator of the literary-trash character DJ Berkley: The Worst Spoken Word Artist In The World. His writing has recently appeared in Salt Hill, Lodestar Quarterly, and Transfer, among other journals and magazines. His essay "Something for the Ladies" is
forthcoming in the anthology The Full Spectrum (Knopf, 2006), which benefits the organization GLSEN. Danny lives in San Francisco and is a member of the Vietnamese Artist Collective. ("I Do" for Queer Love). - "Danny is one of six new MFA candidates in fiction to begin in the fall of 2006 at Indiana University. He is currently working on a collection of essays and short stories entitled Engrish Lessons." (queerthology). -

Dust and Conscience - 2002 - by Truong Tran: " These prose poems capture the experience of a young gay Vietnamese-American poet caught between conflicting cultures."

New TV crime series enters gay territory: (Alternate Link) "A novel about the lives of gay men set in Viet Nam that has taken readers by surprise has now been made into a TV series. Mot The Gioi Khong Co Dan Ba (A World Without Women) by former crime journalist Bui Anh Tan, which won first prize in the For The Nation’s Peace and Security writing competition 2002, is being presented in a 10-episode format, as part of the Viet Nam Television’s Crime Police series..."

Queer Viet Resources. - Gay Vietnamese Alliance: Links.

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ASIAN-AMERICAN & -CANADIAN: GENERAL RESOURCES

Dual Identities N/A: The complexities of being Asian and Queer in Canada. - The Gay Asian American Male: Striving to Find an Identity. - Liberation from Silence: A Response to Queer Asian American Suffering N/A. - Asian News Items from Long Yang Club, Toronto. - Asian Gays and Lesbians: "Politicizing our Identity N/A." - Asian / Gay: Arthur Hu's Index of Diversity. - Your class project is to locate periodicals that have been produced for African-American gay men or Asian-Canadian lesbians. Rather a daunting endeavour. - Bubbling under: Not having to explain chopsticks. - Piecing Together My Racial Identity. - Liberation from Silence: A Response to Queer Asian American Suffering. - Gay and Asian? Encouraging Media and Community to Embrace Both. - The Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Community Gets Proud. - Gay Activism in Asian and Asian-American Churches. - Westernized Asians deny their Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Heritage. - Unfair and Unbalanced Reporting. - Asian American on the same-sex marriage debate. - Increasing Awareness of Family, Immigration & Marriage Equality: Asian-Pacific Islander Press Expands LGBT Coverage. 

Gay? No Way*: So there are no Asian gay men or women. None. It doesn't happen in our community. It's a western ill. And if perchance you're gay then you're sick, were dropped at birth or to take the more 'liberal' stance - you were abused as a child - and that's the only reason you 'turned out' gay.  Shocking ? Well you needn't look far to hear these kinds of views. In fact no further than your own doorstep. Perceptions of homosexuality within our community remain as old-fashioned as some of the decor in our homes. And yet there are probably as many gay men and women in our homeland as there are in the western world..." - Asian Homophobia Overrated. (Alternate Link) - Race, Sexuality Make for a Two-Pronged Fork: Asian-American gays face dual problems: A Gay, Filipino-American Perspective.

On Asian Stereotypes: On rice queens, potato queens, sticky rice, mashed potatoes and other queens. - Talking about Prejudice: "So, for instance, while we are acquainted with such terms as “rice queens” (Caucasians who like Asians) or “potato queens” (Asians who like Caucasians), and film maker Tony Ayres tells what it's like to be a “banana” (yellow on the outside and white on the inside), there is no attempt to explain why desire and racial and sexual stereotyping are connected." - Some Queens. - The Truth About Gay Asian Men. - What, then, are some of the special issues facing LGBT Asian Americans? - Everything in Between: Queer Asians in time and space. - The Gay Asian American Male: Striving to Find an Identity. - Gay Asian Male History.

Primal Glances: Race and Psychoanalysis in Lonny Kaneko's "The Shoyu Kid": "In noting the persistent conflation of "Asian and anus" in North American gay male video pornography, Richard Fung describes equally well the general position in which mainstream society has placed the Asian American male, gay or straight (153). In his extensive writings on the crises of Asian American masculinity..." - Querying Postcolonial and U.S. Ethnic Queer Theory (by Frederick Luis Aldama): "So while in Racial Castration David Eng aims to demonstrate how the West discursively constructs itself as hypermasculine and the East as hyperfeminine (where the "Asian and anus are one", for example), he aims also to give shape to those "disavowed social identities and differences" (224)--the diasporic sexual/racial Asian subject--that will in turn destabilize an old-guard, homophobic and male-biased Asian American nationalism.  For Eng, the first step toward transformation of "the conditions under which we claim our identities and communities" (28) is the acknowledgment of a queer imaginary and psyche within Asian America..."- Images of Asian males: "The emasculation of the Asian bachelor society in America was created.  Evidently, the images of Asian men as unmanly, more feminine, and asexual spread thoughout.  Asian women took on the roles of the Lotus Blossom Baby-passive, subservient, exotic, and sexually availble and the Dragonlady-prostitutes, devious madames.  These images later became the stereotypical roles of Asian American gay men." - Social Misconceptions About Gay Asian Americans: The China Doll Syndrome. (Alternate Link) - Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America - 2001 - by David L. Eng (Review Comments) (Abstract) (The Author).

China Dolls (Tony Ayres for Film Australia): "The journey towards self acceptance for gays and lesbians is difficult in any culture, but for those in a racial minority it becomes even more so.This stylish and moving portrayal of gays of Asian descent in Australia explores the relationship between race and sexuality. China Dolls probes the uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping and discrimination in the gay world through interviews with Asian men..." - A Voice of Their Own
Asian filmmakers get into focus at S.F. lesbian, gay film fest.

Issues of Transgendered Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. - Transgendered people gaining acceptance in gay and lesbian community. - In Her Own Image: Transgender Activist Pauline Park. - Transgender Asian Pacific Alliance. - API Wellness Center : Transgender Programs. - Why a need to study Asian transgender? Research in transgender is mostly Western. - Gender Hybrids & Passing Dykes. 

Gay men and women in Canada's ethnic communities feel surrounded by homophobia, marginalized by gay culture*. - "People of African, Native, Latin and Asian descent still endure ethnic invisibility or exploitation in many "gay" settings" (New Site). - Gay Asian Pacific Support Network. - Spoken by Francis Gallego on February 2002 at University of California lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth conference. - Queer Asian and Pacific Islanders: Crossing Borders, Creating Home*. - Rice Paper Issue # 9: The official publication of GACHEP: The Gay Asian Community Health Empowerment Project GACHEP is a special program of AIDS Services In Asian Communities (ASIAC) dedicated to addressing the health needs (including HIV/AIDS) of Asian & Pacific Islander gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women through outreach, education, referral, advocacy, and community organizing:: PDF Download.

On being Asian and Gay in Straight White America. - Being Asian and being Gay (Canada). - The Power of Sexuality. - Queer Asian American Women N/A: so many battles, so little time... challenging evil, fighting for justice. - AsiaPacifiQueer at International Convention of Asia Scholars, 19-22 August 2003, Singapore (Call for Papers). - A Queer Asian Art Exhibit. - Multiple South Asian Queer Groups in a Single City: Fragmentation and Coalition. - Daniel C. Tsang: "His essay, “Gay Awareness,” published in 1975 in Bridge Magazine, served as the first gay Asian male manifesto." - Gay Activism in Asian and Asian-American Churches. - Race and the Politics of LGBT Communities of Color: PDF Download, Must Scroll. - Gay or Asian N/A? (Related Articles: The Problem Runs Deeper Than Details - Asian or Just a Person Like You? - Gay or Asian? Spread Causes Minority Uproar. - Details Says "Gay or Asian". We Say Gay AND Asian.).

Dang A, Hu M (2005). Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait. A Report from New Yorks's Queer Asian Pacific Legacy Conference, 2004. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute (PDF Download). "This study helps to explain why the broader LGBT community must defend immigrants’ rights and organize in languages other than English... Over 82% said that APA LGBT people experience racism within the white LGBT community, and 96% of respondents said that homophobia and/or transphobia was a problem in the APA community... The lives of APA LGBT people involve a complex web of issues arising from being sexual, racial, ethnic, language, gender, immigrant, and economic minorities... Asian Pacific American LGBT people face vastly different forms of discrimination attributed to gender and sexual exploitation and objectification... There have been few attempts to collect sociodemographic data about APA LGBT people, and even fewer attempts to quantitatively analyze the effect of multiple minority identities on political and civic involvement... This study is one of the first large-scale attempts at collecting data on Asian Pacific American LGBT communities..." - Task Force, Asians groups team up on groundbreaking report aimed at dispelling invisibility.

Network-, Setting-, and Community - Level HIV Prevention Strategies for Asian / Pacific Islanders: Data from Peer Educators at theAsian/Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS - PDF Download. (From http://www.apiahf.org/ : Asian and Pacific Islander Partnership for Health - Men: Top 10 Reasons why I came out to my parents. - Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center: Community HIV/AIDS Services. - What put gay men of color at risk for HIV? Is it ethnic identity? Gay identity? Or sexual sensation seeking? - Systematic Review of HIV Behavioral Prevention Research in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Articles related to gay, bi, lesbian, transgender Asian/Pacific people. - Jackson PA (1996): The Persistence of Gender: From Ancient Indian Pandakas to Modern Thai Gay-Quings. Australian Humanities Review.  - Arthur Dong's award winning documentary work reflects his commitment to social activism through media.  He has received numerous accolades from both the Asian American community and the LGBTQ community.

Mango Tribe: "Mango Tribe is a multi-city Asian/Pacific Islander American (APIA) interdisciplinary performance ensemble that provides space for APIA girls, women, and genderqueer people to develop their creative voices and skills through collaborative productions. We engage in cultural resistance to oppression through experimental, community-based performance and workshops. We believe that collective creation is a powerful force for social justice." - Out, Loud, and Seen:  The Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Movement, Past and Present.

Han C (2006). Geisha of a Different Kind: Gay Asian Men and the Gendering of Sexual Identity. Sexuality & Culture, 10(3): 3-28. - Quintiliani, Karen. (1995). One of the girls: the social and cultural context of a Cambodian-American "Gay" group. M.A. Dissetation. California State University, Long Beach. "Ethnographic field study on crosscultural homosexuality; investigates how a group of Cambodian immigrant men have constructed a successful identity as both Cambodian and gay."

Ona, Fernando Frederick (2002).  Of bougie babes and bangy boyz: A cultural study of suicide and other funky everyday thangs. PhD Thesis, University of California, San Francisoco, with University of California, Berkeley. Abstract Excerpt: "The cultural experience of suicide within American ethnic groups of color is not well understood within the social science literature. Furthermore, few studies examine the cultural experience of suicide among 18-26 year old Americans of Asian/Pacific Islander descent, especially among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or queer youth (LGBTQ). This dissertation is a street ethnography among a group of LGBTQ, 18-26 year old, Americans of Asian/Pacific Islander descent.... The dissertation concludes that suicide occurs, not only in a vacuum of pathological psychiatric disorders of the self, but also in a complex cultural arena where disappointments and expectations, hopelessness and despair, loss and yearning fuse within an intimate place of becoming-in-belonging within everyday American culture."

A New Look at Homophobia and Heterosexism in Canada: The Experience Of Asian and South-Asian Canadians. Table of Contents. Full Text: PDF Download. - Multiplicity And Judges 19: Constructing A Queer Asian Pacific American Biblical Hermeneutic: PDF Download. - Sexualities as Social Roles Among Asian- and Pacific Islander American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals: Implications for Community-Based Health Education and Prevention.

Resource Links: - Asian Pacific American Gay/Lesbian Organizations. - OG Magazine. - GayRice.com - Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York. (The GAPIMNY Story): GAPIMNY news magazine, PersuAsian. - Gay Asian group marking a milestone. - Article Listing. - DRAGUN magazine is a quarterly Asian Alternative Lifestyle Publication Premiering June 1999 in Toronto Canada. - Queer and Asian: mochi balls newsletter. - Barangay: Filipino-American Organization. - Gay and Lesbian Asians of Montreal (GLAM). - British Born Chinese Lesbian: Articles.

The world largest international social organization for Gays of Asian Pacific Heritage. - Queer Asian Youth (Toronto). - Queer Berkeley: Cal Queer & Asian Groups. - References: On Gay Asian Americans. - Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center: Community HIV/AIDS. - Positive Asian Posters. - Queer Asian Support Society* (NZ). - Asian/Pacific Gays and Friends: Newsletter. - Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community Arts Project. - BGLAD: Asian American. - Isn't It Queer Asian-American Link. -  AQU25A: Asian and Pacific Islander Queer and Questioning, 25 and Under All Together is a group for and run by young queer and questioning Asians and Pacific Islanders (A&PIs) who are aged 25 years and under.

Gay, bi, lesbian, transgender A/P youth resources. - Asian Pacific Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Resources. - Queer Asian Pacific resources. - Queer Asian/Pacific Web Resources. - Queer Asian Resources. - Stanford Q&A Links. - Utopia - QRD - Gayscape - Pridelinks. - QueerTheory.com's Resources. - GenderVariant's Resources. - Queer Asian Links. - HIVinsite"s Asian & Pacific Islander Americans Links. - North America Gay Asian Social / Support Groups. - Articles and Essays on APA Sexualities: Queer APAs (Must Scroll). - Noodle Magazine. - HRC: Asian Pacific Americans and Coming Out - Resources. - Queer Asian Resources.

exoticizemyfist.com : Originally a term coined by pro-queer Asian American activist/ theorist/ punk rocker Mimi Nguyen, Exoticize My Fist! has become a slogan of anti-objectification and, thus, empowerment for Asian Pacific Americans of all genders, sexualities and walks of life. The staff at exoticizemyfist.com have adopted this in-your-face term to use as a rallying cry for queer Asian Pacific American women who have no qualms about speaking our minds or putting up a fight.

The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Asian Images). - A galaxy of Asian and Asian American films at the 25th San Francisco International lesbian & Gay Film Festival.  - Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade (PDF Download - from Haworth Press). - (Re)sexualizing the Desexualized Asian Male in the Works of Ken Chu and Michael Joo. - Sambal Belacan in San Francisco. - Projected bodies in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Golden Gate: Critical Essay. - In God's House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church: A Video by Lina Hoshino for the PANA Institute's Civil Liberty and Faith Project. - Queer People of Color Documentaries (PDF Download). - Queer Asian Movies at the Asia Film Festival Aotearoa: film list,  2005.

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Bibliographies: - Books related to gay, bi, lesbian, transgender Asian/Pacific people. - Ohio State University Library's GLB  Book list (China, Japan, New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and other Asia and Pacific countries.) - Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America. - Asian homosexuality bibliography. - Bibliography of materials on South Asian Gay, Lesbian, Concerns. - Bibliography on Homosexuality in the Indian-American Community. - Landmarks in Literature by Asian American Lesbians. - Bibliography of Asian TG (and TG-related) studies in the humanities and social sciences. 1990-present. .- Gay Asian Literature: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Anthologies. - Asian American Sexualities Syllabus. - Queer Asian Non-Fiction. - English-Language Books On East Asian And Pacific Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Topics. - GLBT Bibliographies Listing. - Asian American Literature. - Landmarks in Literature by Asian American Lesbians.- Fiction for GBLT A/P people. - Gay Male Asian-American Fiction.

Finalists for the annual Lambda Literary Awards: 2007, 2006 (Winners), 2005 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2004 (Winners & Nominees), 2003 (Winners & Nominees), 2002 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2001 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2000 (Winners) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), Must Scroll), 1999 (Winners & Nominees) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1998 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1997 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1996 (Winners & Nomineesl), 1992-1995 (Winners & Nominees), 1988-1991 (Winners & Nominees). Categories: Anthology - Arts & Culture - Bisexual - Childrens/Young Adult - Drama/Theater - Humor - LGBT Nonfiction - LGBT Studies - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror - Spirituality - Transgender -- Lesbian Fiction - Lesbian Romance - Lesbian Mystery - Lesbian Poetry - Lesbian Memoir/Biography - Lesbian Erotica - Lesbian Debut Fiction -- Gay Fiction - Gay Romance - Gay Mystery - Gay Poetry - Gay Memoir/Biography - Gay Erotica - Debut Gay Fiction.

Books: - Asian American Sexualities : Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience - 1995 - edited by Russell Leong.  (Abstract, Review Info., 10 Sample Pages) - Asian Homosexuality - 1992 - edited by Wayne R. Dynes, Stephen Donaldson (Table of Contents). - Q & A: Queer in Asian America - 1998 - edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Horn (Review) (10 Sample Pages). - Q & A: Queer in Asian America - (Subscription may be needed) -  1998 - edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom. (Abstract) - Honor Thy Children: One Family's Journey to Wholeness - 1997 - by Molly Fumia. (The inspirational account of a Japanese-American family's triumph in the face of the death of their three children, two from AIDS and a third the victim of a tragic drive-by shooting...)

Books: - CelebrAsian: Shared Lives: Gay Asians Toronto's Oral History book is out! - Floating Lotus Books and Bua Luang Books Bookstore. - Making of a Gay Asian Community : An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles (Pacific Formations : Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives) - 1995 - by Eric C. Wat (10 Sample Pages). - Working With Asian Americans : A Guide for Clinicians - 1997 - edited by Evelyn Lee.

Books: - The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women - 1994 - edited by Sharon Lim-Hing. - Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America - 2001 - edited by Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara, Timothy Liu (12 Sample Pages). - Bite Hard - 1997 - by Justin Chin (10 Sample Pages) (The Author) - Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade - 2000 - edited by Andrew Grossman (Contents). This title has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality Volume 39, Numbers 3/4 2000. - Mongrel : Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - 1998 - by Justin Chin (24 Sample Pages).

Books: - Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian-Pacific-American Activists - 2003 - edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro (Editor), Kevin K. Kumashlro. - Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America - 2001 - edited by Quang Bao, Hanya Yanagihara, Timothy Liu. - Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America - 2001- by David L. Eng (17 Sample Pages). - Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists - 2004 - edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro.

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

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AMERICANS, CANADIANS, & EUROPEANS OF MIDDLE EAST ORIGINS

B-farhet Tarek: The Law of the Blood... is Bloody: Coming out problems in Middle-Eastern Societies.  - Homosexualité: le monde Arabe. - A support group for queer arab women (lesbian , bisexual and transgender)  who have first hand experience of living in the arab world. - OutSpoken : Arab American And Gay. - Gay Muslim Web Site Opened in Asia. 

Iranian Gays Bravely Unite Worldwide. - Saviz Shafaie: An Iranian Gay Activist Leader - Interview by Jack Nichols. - Gay Iranians in Los Angeles and Struggle to Come Out. - Iranian Gay and Lesbian Health Care Provoders Association: Article Listing. - Gay Lebanese Stir Things Up from Sydney. - Muslims step out at Gay Pride. - LGBT Muslims Holding 2nd International Confab in London.

Blacks, blanc, beurs.  (A French article reporting on racism (Black & Arab) problems in France. Article is located in issue n°9 - décembre 1996). - L'association Kelma se bat contre l'isolement et le racisme (France). (Alternate Link) - Kelma, l'association des beurs gay. "Kelma, l'association des beurs gays, est un lei d'écoute, de rencontre, de convivialité et de chaleur, qui fait écho à une réalité souvent douloureuse : les difficultés rencontrées par les homosexuels d'origine maghrébine dans leur quête de leur place dans la société française et dan leur comuauté d'origine." - Kelma: The first french gay and lesbian arab association. - Problèmes avec Kelma N/A. - The New Kelma. - Un Homosexuel Algerien a Paris. - Kelma Belgique: La page de l'association des gays maghrébins en belgique. - Archives des actualités du C.S.H.S.P. (Articles).

Power and Sexuality in the Middle East: Sexual relations in Middle Eastern societies have historically articulated social hierarchies, that is, dominant and subordinate social positions: adult men on top; women, boys and slaves below." - In These Times: Isn't That Queer. - Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World. - White Anti-Racists: They Battle Bigotry from the Inside Out: "Their first workshop will target New York City gay and lesbian groups because most of the trainers identify themselves as "queer" - a term they use to encompass gay, lesbian and transgendered people. "We're trying to challenge the queer movement," Lee said. "Or lack thereof." Lee described how the gay and lesbian community is divided along race and class lines, which she said undermines their power as a collective political force. For example, she believes racial differences spark the current turf war between the young gay and transgendered people of color who flock to the West Village streets to socialize, and the older, mostly white residents who routinely call the police to kick them out."

Prisoners of Sex: "The politics of homosexuality is changing fast in the Arab world. For many years, corners of the region have been known for their rich gay subcultures — even serving as secure havens for Westerners who faced prejudice in their own countries. In some visions, this is a part of the world in which men could act out their homosexual fantasies. These countries hardly had gay-liberation moments, much less movements. Rather, homosexuality tended to be an unremarkable aspect of daily life, articulated in different ways in each country, city and village in the region. But sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular are increasingly becoming concerns of the modern Arab state... In recent years, there have been arrests, crackdowns and episodes of torture. In Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world, as in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates - even in famously open and cosmopolitan Lebanon - the policing of homosexuality has become part of what sometimes seems like a general moral panic... "

The double closet: Shunned by Arabs for being gay, and by gays for being Arab, an emerging community struggles: "Arabian Nights is orchestrated by AL-GAMEA, a group formed in 2004 by three gay Arab men dedicated to creating a forum for support, socialization, education and awareness, in an area that's home to the largest and most visible Arab-American community in the country... As immigrants, they must cope with melding two nationalities; as Arabs, they must deal with unbridled, post-9/11 racism in this country; and as gays, they must deal with jokes, harassment, discrimination, and sometimes, the threat of being attacked and beaten — even by their own families. Outing oneself as gay in this country can still lead to alienation of friends and family, pain, shame, humiliation and discrimination. But in the Middle East, where gender roles are extremely polarized, being gay can lead to imprisonment, flogging or death... While the situation is less grim for Arab-Americans in this country, they still face personal, religious and familial hardships for their sexual orientation — much like those tackled by the first wave of the gay rights movement in the '70s... He says being openly gay is one of the "hardest things you can do as an Arab. It's extremely hard because of your culture, your parents. It's the biggest taboo. It's basically considered filth. Arabs don't understand that it's not a choice; they say, 'America made you that way.'" ... Sebastian suggests that perhaps Arab lesbians are more closeted than men, but doesn't know why. That's not to suggest they don't exist. Canadian Irshad Manji is an outspoken Muslim lesbian and author who's appeared on CNN, the BBC and FOX News; the Safra Project (safraproject.org) is a growing international support group of sorts for Muslim lesbian, bisexual and transgendered women; and ASWAT (aswat.org) is a support network for Palestinian gay women — one of the group's goals is "to increase the presence of women's sexuality and lesbianism in the Arabic language and culture."..."

The daughter of those people: "Being 'bint el nas' means you are someone's daughter; having family. Belonging to someone and having people who belong to you. For many arabs, that belonging to the family and community is an essential component of cultural identity. For others, especially those born or living in the diaspora, the distance from family and a lack of community bring into sharp relief the ways in which their cultural identity is problematic. Whether you live in the Middle East, North Africa or the diaspora, to be lesbian, bisexual or transgender is to create distance from your culture, a kind of internal exile or ghurbeh. And you are doing it to yourself, either because of the silences you may choose or need to maintain, or because there are areas of your life in which you need to make that impossible choice between being queer and Arab; your cultural identity is further complicated. And yet, in that distance from your Arab culture you are finding yourself as an individual. You are also, hopefully, moving towards belonging to a lesbian/ bisexual/ transgender community, whether physically or via email and other forms of communication. And in that place you may find yet another expression of yourself as an Arab, however similar or different that is to your previous experience. For me that bringing together of my Arab, westernised and lesbian selves has been and still is a difficult process, with many pitfalls along the way... 

The Invisible American Half: Arab American(1) Hybridity and Feminist Discourses in the 1990s: "The discourse that defines Arab American women as women of color gives a new impetus for the discussion of racism not just as a problem facing the community, but also as a problem within the community. The fight against the racist attitude and practices within opens the door to the discussion of homophobia and the hostility some members of the community show towards Arab American gay men and Lesbian women. These problems which are internal to the community undermines its ability to mobilize against the racism of the hegemonic culture and to build successful coalitions with other groups and communities with the U.S. political system. The fight against these problems provide important levers for overcoming the "partitioned"(66) and "ghettoized"(67) existence that have dissipated the collective and intellectual energies of Arab Americans as people of color in the U.S..."

Arab-American Writers Identify with Communities of Color: "At the same time, the reaction from within the Arab-American community can be fierce if it perceives any kind of attack or challenge to its prevailing social and familial structures, especially from one of its "own." This breeds an insidious form of self-censorship that has, until recently, kept Arab-American literature from engaging in unabashed discussions of sexuality, incest, or even mental health issues. By contrast, women writers in the Arab world have long explored lesbian relationships, incest, and other subjects that remain largely taboo in the Arab-American world...."

Arab Americans and HIV/AIDS Prevention. "Many themes repeat through the four interviews, but one that stands out quite clearly is shame. Words like secretive, stigma, taboo, suspicion, and fear are repeatedly used to describe the relationship many Arab Americans have towards HIV & AIDS and related topics, including sexuality, homosexuality, and drug use."

Films & Videos on Gay & Lesbian Studies: The Perfumed Garden - An exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society. (new September, 2001) - Talking Back. Arabs in the Celluloid Closet: Separate and unequal visions of gay male identities in lands of exile: "These directors may love filming Brown or Black men, but they still have no clue of how to narrate the lives of these characters, making them hollow figments of their imagination. In fact, they know nothing about the culture of others, yet talk about "shared values..." How long until we see a film with a gay Arab man who is not necessarily beautiful, who is menacing instead of being sexy, sympathetic and reassuring? Such a character might find a way to impose his perspective instead of playing the passive victim awaiting the white hero." - Menicucci G (1998). Unlocking the Arab Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in Egyptian Film. Middle East Report, No. 206, Power and Sexuality in the Middle East (Spring, 1998), pp. 32-36.

A European Gay Arab Male Comments: "I have been for a relatively short time in the gay scene/community, yet I find myself terribly disappointed (my problem) by the way gay life is lived and what is important for men. Our entire culture seems to rotate around getting the next best guy into bed or having the best orgasm. I am not judging nor am I condemning yet when this becomes all, it truly becomes unnerving. Gay Arabs are, unfortunately, not advancing beyond that point either."

Anniversary gives journalists a chance to reflect, too: "Dahir said he has always taken solace knowing that the gay community would be there for acceptance. However, Dahir said that after the terrorist attacks, he wrote about his experience of being an Arab-American in the United States and was shocked to receive negative and hateful responses from the LGBT community. "I've always assumed that the gay community was a safe haven," Dahir said. "But I don't feel that way anymore. A bond has been broken that I feel will never be repaired." Dahir said the LGBT community knows what discrimination and hatred feel like, and he assumed its members would not be among those who jumped to conclusions that all Arab-Americans were to blame for the attacks..."

Bibliography: Arabic traditions of male-male erotic/sensual/sexual relationships. - The Queer Jihad  for Muslim Homosexuals. - YOESUF Foundation’s Book Project. - The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Arab / Middle Eastern Images).

Jerusalem Open House: Where Jews and Arabs find ways to mix peacefully in the Holy Land: "In the heart of Jerusalem, the holy city torn by age-old animosities, the rainbow flag is sending a powerful message, according to those who placed it there. Flying over a pedestrian mall that's been the target of terrorist bombs, the international symbol of Gay Pride shows that Jews, Christians and Muslims can live together in harmony.

GayJews.Org (Orthodox Jews) - A Community of Frum Gay Jews  - Everything Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual/ Transgender and Jewish  - The World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations - JGLG - The longest established Jewish gay group in the world.  - Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York's synagogue serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Jewish community: The largest in the world. - History of Gay Israel ? Queer in the Land of Sodom.

Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society (GLAS). - Articles & Essays. - The politics of Naming; A Queer Arab Identity? - Arab Lesbian Home Page. - Welcome to the home page for our GayArabs Chat Channel and Mail List (gayarab.org). - Queer Muslims Home Page. - Sehakia: the Voice of Arab and North African Lesbians.  - AHBAB: The Gay and Lesbian Arab Society. - Salaam: The Queer Muslim Community of Toronto. An organization dedicated to Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual and/or transgender, as well as those questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity, and their friends. - Al-Fatiha Foundation. - Safra Project: Personal stories of Muslim lesbian, bisexual and trans women.

Iranian queers headquartered in Toronto: "The Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO) is based in Toronto, as its functioning in Iran would be illegal and dangerous. However, it communicates with people in Iran and around the world via the web and e-mail, with some 5,000 members and a monthly publication. - Unveiling the Iranian Queer Organization: An Interview with Arsham Parsi: "The Persian Gay and Lesbian Organization (PGLO), now called the Iranian Queer Organization (IRQO), is a non-profit organization working for the rights of sexual minorities in Iran, including homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals."

Resource Links: - QRD: GLB People in the Middle-East Links. - QRD's post-1st century CE Judaism. - Gayscape. - Sites beur gay. - Liens gay beurs et lascars. Links to Arab sites. - GayEgypt.com's Links. - Arabic GLBT Cultural Resources. - Queer Jihad Links. - Gay and lesbian Arabs Resources. - LGBT Muslim/Arab American Organizations. - Resources for Arab-American/Muslim Communities. 

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

Academic Searches: Search IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. - Search Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search The National Library of Medicine.

Books: - Review of Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature - 1997 - edited by J.W.Wright Jr. and Everett K. Rowson (Review). - "Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies." -  Islamic Homosexualities - 1997 - edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe (Abstract/Contents) (Review). Critique of Book. -  Queer Jews - 2002 - edited by David Shneer, Caryn Aviv.

GENERAL RESOURCES & ISSUES
 

At Home in a World of Strangers. Towards a Comparison of Gay Urban Cultures: - Towards a global gay culture?. (Home Page: More Writings) - Gay Immigrants: A Study in Cultural Crossings. (Longer version of paper) - Cultural diversity and men who have sex with men: a review of the issues, strategies and resources. (Full Text online). - GLSEN Resources: Race and Sexual Orientation. - EGALE to consult with queers on the intersection of race and sexual orientation and the implications of intersectional oppression. - Consultation: The Intersectionalities of Race and Sexual Orientation. - Embracing Cultural and Sexual Diversity in the BGLT Community: Conference to address issues of race, ethnicity, and sexuality in “mainstream” Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Trans (BGLT) community (2004). - People of color activists organize across the U.S.: "Militant activists of color played a leading role in early multinational gay liberation groups and formed their own caucuses and organizations..." - Queer People of Color Heroes. - Equal Opportunity: gay people of color in motion picture industry. - Lesbian and Bisexual Women of Color on TV. - Voice for the voiceless: RedBone, a press for LGBT writers of color, rises from the ashes to make a mark in publishing.

Race and the Politics of LGBT Communities of Color. - Links to Issues Related to LBGT People of Color. - Re-Centering the Margins: Queer Women of Color Bibliography. - One Face of Gay Africa: Creating Community in Exile (UK). - Characteristics of Nonrespondents to Questions on Sexual Orientation and Income in a HMO Survey: "Whereas there was no variation in nonresponse to the income question by race, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians were much more likely than Non-Hispanic Whites to be nonrespondents to the sexual orientation question (odds ratio 1.9, 2.2, and 7.2, respectively)." - GLBT in the non-European World. - A review of the professional literature and research need of LGBT youth of color (PDF Download). - Silence broken: National Coming Out Days vigil mourns hate crimes.

We Are Foreigners and Strangers Among Ourselves: "However, when separatism happens within marginal groups, like our LGBT communities, we see how far down the road we have not traveled." - Men of All Colours Together: "Men of All Colors Together/Philadelphia is a gay multiracial, multicultural organization committed to fostering supportive environments wherein racial and cultural barriers can be overcome and the goal of human equality can be realized. To these ends, we engage in educational, political, cultural and social activities as means of dealing with racism, sexism, homophobia, heterosexism, HIV/AIDS, ageism, ableism, classism, and other inequities in our communities and in our lives. Men of All Colors Together (SF): Newsletters available for download. - Gay Is Global: Three decades after Stonewall the movement it spawned has become a worldwide symbol of freedom.  - Men of All Colors Together, NY. 

Lesbians of Color: Racism, Homophobia, and Community Identity. - "Too Busy Studying and No Time for Sex?" (Citation of Study)  Homosexually Active Male  International Students and Sexual Health: "Most of the students were from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand and four had undertaken their secondary education in Australia. (Sydney: National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, 1999. 54 p. Monograph 4/1999.) - GLBT panel discusses double discrimination. - Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth of Color: Qualitative Insights into Intersections of Race, Religion, and Sexual Orientation. - Hate Crimes Targeting Race and Sexual Minorities: Same and Different (PDF Download). - Homophobia/Heterosexism In Communities of Color (PDF Download). - Overview: Lesbians and Gay Men of Color - Between the Rock of Ethnoracial Identity and the Hard Place of Heterosexism (PDF Download).

Why BGLAD? Recently, factions of the queer community have taken to seeking societal acceptance by catering to the traditional values of the so-called straight community, assimilating as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. The now familiar chorus, "We're just like straight people" dominates their approach, hence distilling the goals of gay liberation into a solitary aim-to eradicate the distinction of the homosexual from the heterosexual, to regain the privilege lost after coming out. But what, or rather whose, privilege is being so passionately defended? These so-called assimilationist gays presume a specific narrative of prejudice against queer folk, one which considers one and only one form of oppression as relevant, ignoring the ways in which people of color, women, drag queens, bulldykes, transgender people-anyone who is neither white nor a man, are discriminated against. The perception of homophobia as singular, uniform, and universal for all queers is childishly simple, and is indicative of a ridiculously narrow conception of the freedom that weas queers are supposedly fighting for..."

Working with Communities of Color: The Asian And Pacific Islander Experience In Oregon: "Lesbians and gay men of color have always been involved in the lesbian and gay movement and the struggles of people of color in this country. This reality stands in sharp contrast with the relative isolation of white gays and lesbians from communities of color, Japanese Americans or African Americans, for example. Increasingly, however, sexual minority communities and racial and ethnic minority communities are recognizing, and must recognize, that cooperative efforts are necessary and will benefit everyone over the long run..."

A Different Shade of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Marginalizing by the Marginalized: "Shared experiences of oppression rarely lead to sympathy for others who are also marginalized, traumatized, and minimized by the dominant society. Rather, all too miserably, those who should naturally join in fighting discrimination find it more comforting to join their oppressors in oppressing others. As a gay man of color, I see this on a routine basis – whether it be racism in the gay community or homophobia in communities of color..."

Re-coloring the Rainbow: "When I think of GLBTQ women of color, I think of the phrase, “re-coloring the rainbow.” GLBTQ is an acronym that stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender /transsexual, and queer/questioning. Because GLBTQ women of color are a minority within a minority, there is a shortage of research, resources, and representation in the media of these women. Racism continues to pervade our society; there is also much opposition to homosexuality in a society where many believe that everyone is born heterosexual and that homosexuality is a choice. Even within the GLBTQ community, women’s needs may be overlooked; and even within the GLBTQ community of women, the needs and issues of minority women are sadly ignored..."

LGBTQ Racial Equity Campaign: Extensive research shows that racial inequities persist in every indicator of well-being, including health and wellness, school readiness, economic success and civic participation, among many others. Further, funding for LGBTQ people of color has been woefully inadequate, which profoundly impacts the health of these organizations and, ultimately, the effectiveness of our broader movements for social change. Let’s begin redressing these inequities.

Queeers of Color: "Since my freshman year, I have been an active member of both the queer and Asian-American communities. Like many other people of color, I feel comfortable identifying as both "queer" and "Asian-American" here at Stanford. However, my Stanford experience has taught me that the racism and homophobia in American society at large still operate on our campus to make many queer people of color uncomfortable with their sexuality or racial identity. These perceptions of exclusion and marginalization are not shared equally by all queer people of color. In fact, many people in Q&A experience the queer community as welcoming, and are more concerned about the homophobia of our ethnic community. However, that fact does not erase the need to address the reality of racism and homophobia as overlapping systems of discrimination. That process begins with our dis-orientation. Dis-orientation is a common experience for queer people of color here at Stanford. When ethnic groups "orient" us, we often feel like the only non-heterosexual in the community. At their conferences, dinners, and parties, compulsory heterosexuality erases our identities and ignores our issues. When queer groups "orient" us, we often feel like the only non-white person in the community. At their workshops, socials, and dances, whiteness marks us as "Other", renders us invisible, and commodifies us as exotic. Two communities claim us and reject us simultaneously because of racism and homophobia. The gay community and the ethnic communities welcome you on paper, but exclude you in person - that is the ultimate dis-orientation..."

Racism: - A Collation of Information related to racism issues: "Racism in Predominantly White Gay and lesbian Communities." - Developing a shared language: - "That racism exists in gay communities comes as a surprise to those who assume that a people who experience prejudice and discrimination will not discriminate against other groups. This is far from the truth. Racism in gay culture takes many forms: from the physical and sexual stereotyping of men of African and Asian descent to the failure to recognise and take into account the life-experiences of individuals and communities who have been discriminated against."

On being Asian and Gay in Straight White America: - "But even the gay community has tiny, hidden rules that sneak up on me. All of a sudden, I discovered that many non-homophobic people are racist... The racism I have experienced in the gay community is not the overt color of red but the subtle, unwavering tinge of blue. It is the blue in eyes that forget to see you, that sweep over you during a mainstream GLBT function. It is the default belief that gay America is gay white America. It is the lack of concern for you and your issues. It is the blue color of neglect and ignorance." - Embracing Diversity? Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders Discuss Racism in the LGBT Community. - Racism between Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Transgender People of Color.

Racism in Gay Culture: The gay community still suffers from one of the oldest forms of discrimination; racism... Racism is a problem that crawls in the shadow of the gay community. It does not receive a lot of attention. - Is there Racism in the gay community? N/A: "Take for example the fact that at no bar that I can think of, is there a Black or Asian bartender." - Does "the gay community" really mean for gay and white men only? - "people of African, Native, Latin and Asian descent still endure ethnic invisibility or exploitation in many "gay" settings"(Was at ammazi.com)   - Report on Creating Change Conference (2003): "This year's theme focused on racism within the LGBT community, and a number of workshops were dedicated to the subject." - Institutionalized Racism Slowing Progress of GLBT Movement.

Luis Alfaro's Life Goes into the Theater - (by Patti Hartigan The Boston Globe, 1998)   "Instead, he aims to walk calmly in a tornado, using his art and his poetry to explore issues of race and class and sexual orientation. As a gay Chicano, his work addresses homophobia in the Latino community and racism in the gay community."  - Wayne King: A Life in Progress: "Wayne King encountered as much racism in the gay community as in the general community, which he describes as a "double whammy for me as a gay man and as an Aboriginal." - When an Oppressed Group Becomes the Oppressor: Racism within the Gay Community. 

Racism and anti-Semitism operate in LesBiGayTrans communities in ways that are both the same and different from heterosexual society.  - "Invisibility" Of People Of Color In GLB Community Discussed At QPI Forum. - Racism Alive and Well in Philadelphia.  - Tongues Untied (Director: Marlon Riggs): "...the man refused entry to a gay bar because of his color."  - Gay Racism: White Lies/Black Slander. - Gay men and women in Canada's ethnic communities feel surrounded by homophobia, marginalized by gay culture N/A.  - Edward Kai Chiu: (Alternate Link) "I am gay, but I am not represented.  Obviously, the voices and faces of my gay Asian brothers are deliberately being ignored." - Gay Men's Multi-ethnic Association. - South Florida's only social group for professional gay men from all ethnic backgrounds. 

The Queer Artist Collective: "Wagan says that he has been struggling with racism in the gay community.  - Fight and flight:  "I am sick of constantly having to convince my "allies" that my life is worth fighting for, that all people of color deserve to be mentioned in their discussions, that we merit being placed on their list of priorities." - The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Racism). - "Is Racism, Sexism, And Biphobia Killing The Gay Movement?" - It's your body, it's your call: "ACMSM has to deal with the systematic racism in the general society and gay community. For example, in North American gay media, positive gay Asian images are usually under represented. However, when it is presented, Asian men are portrayed in a stereotype, such as subserviant and helpless."

Jewish Activist Gays and Lesbians (JAGL) - young gay, lesbian and bisexual Jews who struggle against homophobia in the Jewish community and anti-Semitism in the gay world. - Gay Pride Does Not Erase Racism N/A:. "Kelly said issues important to African Americans are sometimes lost in the general discussions about gay culture. ``The racism we have to face being black and male is one thing, but to be black, male and gay [we face] the most discrimination even within the gay community,'' he said." - Race and Homosexuality: "It is wrongly believed that the lesbian and gay community with its on-going experience of stigma and discrimination is racially tolerant." - Racial sensitivity lacking in national [GLB] group policies N/A.

From Queer of Color "Statement of Purpose": "...current conventional wisdom insists that the struggles against various oppressions must not be combined. As a result, Queers of Color are often marginalized within groups that are already marginalized. We are forced to fight racism and homophobia in society at large, as well as racism within the queer community, and homophobia within communities of color." - L'association Kelma se bat contre l'isolement et le racisme (France).  - FACING ONE'S OWN ANTI-GAY BIAS.  -  Have You Ever Tried IT That Way? - Update (San Diego): "Invisibility" Of People Of Color In GLB Community Discussed At QPI Forum. - ASUCD Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission sponsored a discussion of student experiences with interracial dating called "Relationship Reality" on Tuesday, the first series of speakers on such a topic.

Violent & Hate Crimes: "A more recent study The Low Down, Black Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexual People talk about their experiences and needs, by GALOP (2001), the London Gay and Lesbian Policing Group, found similarly high levels of violence and abuse against lesbian and gay black and minority ethnic groups. 68% experienced homophobic abuse and 81% experienced racist abuse. 10% experienced homophobic violence and 24% experienced racist violence." - Stonewalled: police abuse and misconduct against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the U.S.: "This report confirms that in the U.S., LGBT people continue to be targeted for human rights abuses by the police based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Furthermore, the report shows that within the LGBT community, transgender individuals, people of color, youth, immigrant and homeless individuals, and sex workers experience a heightened risk of police abuse and misconduct. Reports to AI indicate that individuals from these populations within the LGBT community are targeted on the basis of identity and are more likely to experience negative interactions with police. Transgender people, particularly low-income transgender people of color, experience some of the most egregious cases of police brutality reported to AI.

Gay and homosexually active Aboriginal men in Sydney. -  Division of the Gay Community. - Response: Division of the Gay Community. -  Race, Sexuality and Education. What does it mean to be Aboriginal and gay in education in Australia?: "Addressing issues of Aboriginal gayness means challenging reductive framings of Aboriginality without coopting the struggles named from within. It means supporting Aboriginal gay men across the site of the struggle. It means doing work on racism in the gay community." - Gay Militants Admit Prevalence of Racism in Their Own Ranks.

White racism has been reported in England where gay communities are said to be also quite intolerant to other human attributes within their group: As with other minorities within minorities, gay Asians face hostility from their own community and from the gay scene ["the racist gay scene"] they turn to for help. Like gay Christians, gay Tories or even gay football supporters, Rajvir faces ignorance whichever way he turns. Makes you feel proud doesn't it? (Article by Chris Morris) Racism in gay communities is known to affect gay / bisexual males of colour in a number of ways and, by 1999, it was recognized to likely negatively affect their access to services. A study (in progress) of this gay community attribute is reported on in Current HIV Education Research - A Bulletin for UK Professionals (Issue 7 - Spring 1999): Racism and the Gay Community. (PDF Download N/A

Racism and the Gay Community [no.762] March 1999 to June 1999
This study aims to explore the expression of racism within the gay community. Particular attention will be paid to the experience of using gay venues and services by Black and South Asian gay men, and other men who have sex with men. This focus aims to highlight both the ways in which racism inhibits access to services and the attempts of service providers to address the problem. Following a literature review, focus groups and one-to-one interviews have been conducted with 20 Black and South Asian men, aged between 20 and 40, who were recruited through agency networks and research contacts. Participants were asked about their experiences of racism. This work was undertaken in co-operation with five Black and Asian non-governmental organisations with experience of working with gay men and other men who have sex with men. The final report will be disseminated to gay organisations and other service providers.
Funding: Ethnicity & Health Unit, Faculty of Health. Manawar Jan-Khan, University of Central Lancashire, Ethnicity & Health Unit, Faculty of Health, Preston, Lancs PR1 2HE.)

Being Out for Justice: Exploring Racism in the Queer Community and Beyond. - Dual Identities N/A: The complexities of being Asian and Queer in Canada. - A Korean Gay Man in the United States: Toward a cultural Context for Social Service Practice. - As a gay Chicano, his work addresses homophobia in the Latino community and racism in the gay community. - Young Women's Program - Young Tongues: "...and the topics discussed range from coming out to racism in the queer community. - The Oracle Online N/A: "The mere fact that someone is gay does not make them immune to some other sort of bigotry," he said. "There is racism within the gay community."

Coalition Building Among People of Color (1993): A discussion with Angela Y. Davis and Elizabeth Martínez... How can different people of color come together to build a coalition when their communities have different needs?..."

Hawai'ian GLBT Resources: Na Mamo O Hawai`i (Hawai`ian Lesbian and Gay Activists), (808) 595-0402. This group is dedicated to fighting racism in the Gay Community AND homophobia in the Hawai`ian Community. - UCGALA N/A: University of California Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association concerned ABOUT "hate crimes; police/community relations; gay rights and anti-gay rights ordinances; AIDS activism; multi-cultural conflicts and racism in the gay community, etc." - UCGALA  now does not mention the racism in gay communities.  - Contra Costa Times, May 9, 1999: "About 100 young people, running the gamut from gay and bisexual to lesbian and can't-quite-decide, attended discussion groups throughout the day on such subjects as homosexuality at church, the difficulties of coming out to family and friends and date violence, safe sex and racism in the gay community."

Women's Resource Center Newsletter Selections: "Behind this accusation of separatism lies the assumption that queer space is inherently neutral, equal, and color-blind, and that "militant" queers of color are initiating a racial divide where none had existed before. Two problems with this line of reasoning are: 1) The queer community (in its public guise) is mostly comprised of white leaders addressing white issues under the guise of "diversity." This same queer community often ignores the ways racism in and outside the community affect queer men and women of color..." -

Fight and flight: "There was a time when I naively believed that marginalized groups have a natural affinity for each other. That didn’t last very long in my short, politicized life. And I’d like to say now that racism in the gay community doesn’t happen in such virulent forms, that racism mostly manifests itself in complex ways compounded by class differences. I’d like to say that most people are sophisticated enough to know that racism is not simply a matter of derogatory stereotypes, but of a whole system of epistemological erasures." - Living Our Lives, NOT Our Lifestyles N/A: 1999 Eastern United States  LGBT Conference University at Albany, SUNY April 16-18, 1999 Racism in the Queer Community. Presented by Nadya Lawson and Hyoejin Yoon of the Dismantling Racism Project. Lecture Center 2.

QPOC Debriefing Caucus (2007: Sponsored by Queer Conference Committee of UCR): This is a closed space for all Queer People of Color identified persons. We will be discussing the differences between queer-cultures within our ethnicities. Not only will we be focusing on ourselves as a marginalized group by white queer culture and organizing, but also on why is it that we are a marginalized group when we are the backbone to many movements in the queer community. - They Don't Want To Cruise Your Type: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Exclusion: "Despite the civil rights dialogue used by the gay community, many 'gay' organizations and members of the 'gay' community continue to exclude men of color from leadership positions and 'gay' establishments, thus continuing to add to the notion that 'gay' equals 'white'..."

Reflecting on a Colorful Conference: Rina: What do you think is the most important issue facing queer minorities? K'haria rai zen: Oh wow. Homophobia in their communities that lead to a lack of non-white role-models for queer youth and racism in the queer community. You don't get accepted at home because you're queer, but when you seek out acceptance in the queer community, you're unwelcome there too. You often feel as if you're the only one. Racism In The Queer Community: "Race does not appear to be a big issue," he said... An audience member disagreed. "I think racism is very widespread in the gay community," she said...(Google.com search for "Racism in the Queer Community") - Racism in Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender America.

Festival Focus: The Color of Sex: "Despite the quantum leap that queer filmmaking has taken over the last decade, there are still some subjects which have proven difficult, if not impossible, for queer filmmakers to address adequately. Chief among these is the complicated and taboo-laden convergence of race and sexuality in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities...  Lesbian and gay people of color are perpetually engaged in a never- ending struggle to dispute the unsolicited and unwelcome identities foisted upon them by an oppressive mainstream culture... The vast majority of white queer filmmakers either ignore the experiences of people of color altogether in their work, or get those experiences incredibly and sometimes horribly wrong. Conversely, too many queer filmmakers of color get bogged down trying to tackle too many issues in a single film or video, when even one of the multitude of concerns complicating their lives would be more than enough to try to deal with effectively... There are an endless number of issues revolving around race and sexuality that are also begging to be addressed. What about interracial relationships (both platonic and sexual) between non-white lesbians and gays? Or the impact racism and homophobia have had on intra-racial relationships within various queer communities of color? Or the effect that class/socio-economic status has on the dynamics of lesbian and gay interracial and intra-racial relationships? What about a frank and no-holds-barred discussion of the dynamics of racial fetishism? Or the impossibility of politically correcting sexual desire? These are just a few of the diverse range of intriguing areas of investigation/exploration just waiting to be embarked upon by queer filmmakers.

What if Gay Marriage is the Wrong Fight? "As legends go, San Francisco is the place for sexual debauchery, gender transgression, and political deviance (not to mention sexual deviance, gender debauchery, and political transgression). The reality is that while San Francisco still shelters outsider queer cultures unimaginable in most other cities, these cultures of resistance have been ravaged by AIDS, drug addiction, and gentrification. Direct on-the-street violence by rampaging straights remains rare in comparison to other queer destination cities like New York, Chicago, or New Orleans, but a newer threat has emerged. San Francisco, more than any other US city, is the place where a privileged gay (and lesbian) elite has actually succeeded at its goal of becoming part of the power structure. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), members of the gaysbian elite use their newfound influence to oppress less privileged queers in order to secure their status within the status quo. This pattern occurs nationwide, but San Francisco is the place where the violence of this assimilation is most palpable...  Gay assimilationists have created the ultimate genetically modified organism, combining virulent strains of nationalism, patriotism, consumerism, and patriarchy and delivering them in one deadly product: state-sanctioned matrimony...  Instead, gay marriage proponents claim that access to marriage will solve fundamental problems of inequality. This is not surprising, given that the gay marriage movement is run by groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the Log Cabin Republicans, who have more in common with the National Rifle Association than any sort of left agenda, queer or otherwise. These are the same gays who routinely instigate police violence against people of color, homeless people, transgender people, sex workers, and other marginalized queers, in their never-ending quest to “clean up” the neighborhoods they’ve gentrified. Their agenda is cultural erasure, and they want the full Monty..."

Racism Haunts Queer and Christian Communities: "Racism continues to be one of those nagging problems that we must grapple with. As part of an ongoing dialogue that sometimes appears to get better, talks concerning race in America never succeed at making people of color feel secure or making the problem seem curable. That's because every time the political tide changes, the racial gains made during one political season often are reconsidered if not reversed in the other... In WOW's effort to be inclusive of all people within the Body of Christ, it decided to confront the issue of racism by looking at itself. The Coordinating Committee put out this statement: "Over the course of the last two years, the WOW 2003 Coordinating Committee has been challenged in confronting racism. We confess that as a committee, we talked a lot about working on racism and maintaining our diversity as a committee, but there always seemed to be more urgent items on our agenda. In fact, it has only been in the past nine months that we began to deal with racism as a part of our committee work. We have learned a lot about ourselves and about our movement." ... s a nagging problem that seems to never go away, racism must be the issue we wrestle with in our attempts to do social justice work on behalf of all LGBT people - churched and unchurched, Christian and non-Christian. But for LGBT Christian activists especially, it is important that in our proclamation to create the beloved community as depicted in the Gospel of John in the New Testament, we not fail at being inclusive - because the thorn of racism impinges on our movement.

Performing Sexual Inequalities: Participatory action research on social inequalities in sexual communities using theater for participation and dissemination: "In the course of my ongoing research project on racism in the gay male community, I have deepened my thinking about the role of the researcher in society, and have begun to fashion what I believe is a unique way of integrating research with community collaboration in a sincere effort to affect positive social change. In the case of my research, the very practice I have chosen reflects the reflexive position vis-B-vis the topic or racism, and the role of the researcher in affecting change. The way in which I conducted my research was totally novel for me.." - Presenting author: Niels Teunis, Title: Racism in the San Francisco gay community (Word Download): An experimental ethnography to create new visibility to an old problem. This paper will describe the outcome of an experimental ethnography of a theater production that attempts to investigate the non-verbal, physical expressions of racism in the San Francisco Gay Community by means of theatrical techniques. This theater project was set up to serve the following goals:... One major hindrance to recognition across racial lines is the fact that so much racism is expressed in subtle non-verbal ways that are nevertheless unmistakable to those on the receiving end. Overt verbal expressions of racism are a rarity in modern day San Francisco. But the question is how to effectively and convincingly demonstrate what the effects of subtle or not so subtle non-verbal expressions of racism are. That is the reason why this theater project has been organized."

Ignoring the Sexualization of Race: Heteronormativity, Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racist Politics: " This Article, a third in a series of related works, explores the representation of sexual identity within Critical Race Theory and other forms of anti-racist discourse. I argue, after examining representative texts, that anti-racist discourse is often "heteronormative" -- or centered around heterosexual experiences. Most commonly, anti-racist heteronormativity occurs when scholars and activists in the field fail to analyze the homophobic dimensions of acts or conditions of racial inequality and when they dismiss, either implicitly or explicitly, the "morality" of gay and lesbian equality claims. This Article recommends that scholars in Critical Race Theory and related fields adopt a more multidimensional lens for studying oppression and identity -- one that treats forms of subordination and identity as interrelated, rather than as mutually exclusive and unconnected. .."

Gay Racism in the Castro: "Marlon Riggs is not alone. Black gay men have complained for years about racism in the gay community, but many of these complaints have been dismissed by the larger gay community as the rantings of a few. Now comes a new report from the San Francisco Human Rights Commission that confirms what many of us have known all along: racism is alive and well, even in the legendary Castro district of San Francisco. The report, issued last week, came after months of protests by people of color and their allies, who complained about the owner of a bar called Badlands in the Castro... Given the years of anecdotal reports of race discrimination in the lgbt community, are you surprised by the discrimination in this case? ... I am disappointed that racism as blatant as that of Les Natali has been tolerated in San Francisco. San Francisco is one of the most liberal cities in America... I came to San Francisco as a gay man for one reason: to be free. I did not expect that I would be in such a strong battle of fighting against discrimination within the LGBT community. It feels no different than the struggles I experienced in the Deep South. There is something wrong when we as an oppressed people in the LGBT community are oppressing our own who are also fighting in the struggle of equality and freedom..." - Skeleton in gays' closets: Racism: Bias investigation at Castro bar opens dialogue about prejudice.

Stories We Have Yet to Hear: The Path to Healing Racism in American Sanghas: "In any discussion of racial issues, there are layers upon layers of complexity and paradox.  For clarity, I want to emphasize that this article focuses on the U.S. Buddhist communities whose members come mostly from family backgrounds that are not Buddhist, that is “newcomers.”  Although the largely immigrant or so-called ethnic Buddhist communities in the U.S. are communities of color, one of their chief concerns, understandably, is preserving their cultures and language rather than “diversifying.”  It’s also worth noting that an alternative to predominantly white newcomer Buddhist communities appears to be provided by the Nichiren Soka Gakkai sect, which attracts a significant number of African American practitioners. I also wish to acknowledge that there has been progress in terms of diversity in newcomer sanghas. In many cases, this is due to the strenuous efforts of feminist women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender practitioners to gain full access to Buddhist teachings and teacher training. When any form of discrimination is addressed, such as sexism or homophobia, it opens the way for all the others to be addressed as well..."

Racism [not equal to] homophobia: " In the glory days of gay liberation our movement was blessed with strong support from African-American leaders. That's still the case, but on the ground the bond may be fraying. One Gallup survey shows a growing antipathy among blacks toward gay rights. There are many reasons for this shift. One of them stems from the perception that queers have hogged the civil rights limelight. I think that's largely true, through no fault of ours. The troubling fact is that the sound and fury over issues such as same-sex marriage provides an excuse to divert attention from racism. To add insult to injury, some LGBT leaders act as if their struggle is comparable to that of blacks... There's a feeling among some white gays that blacks ought to be tolerant of stigmatized sexualities merely because they are black. And there's a belief in some black-nationalist circles that homosexuality is essentially a white perversion. Racism underlies both convictions, and for that reason they won't be easy to overcome. But we have to give it a shot, not just because it's right but because it's necessary to our progress."

Racism in GAPSN? Part I, Part 2, Part 3. ""GAPSN is a racism group." I've heard this statement several times over the past few weeks and I find myself growing weary of it. I think that it's time to address this issue and meet it head-on with a position that clearly states that this organization is non-racist. To not formally address the issue is to leave us open to such criticisms. I feel that our desire to hold "Asian Only" raps, our restriction of such raps to Asian/Pacific Islander's (API), is the source of the charge of racism... I support the right of Gay & Lesbian youth to hold raps for people who are under 24 years old, such as the youth group that meets at the GLCSC. I do not feel that I am being discriminated against just because I am not being allowed to attend their raps because I am over 24 years old. I do not accuse them of practicing ageism. I understand that they have their own issues to deal with..."

The Dynamics of Color and LVA: Lesbians in the Visual Arts: "    Community-based groups have thrived on the West Coast. A multi-cultural group of lesbian artists, curators, and commentators has gathered under the umbrella of San Francisco based LVA: Lesbians in the Visual Arts, established in 1990. Photographer and LVA founding director Happy/L.A. Hyder (b. 1947) uses her self-awareness as an American of Lebanese ancestry to encourage diverse participation." - Queer Women of Color Media Arts Program.

Taking “queer” to the mainstream: "After the sold-out success of their first show, “BENEATH,” organizers of the Queer People of Color Liberation Project are ready for round two. “WITHIN,” about the lives and perspectives of queer, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and gay people of color, combines live stage performances with multimedia, including a video and slide show. This time, the Liberation Project tackles gentrification, dating violence, racism, homophobia and being tokenized, “especially in white gay and lesbian spaces,” said Joanne Alcantara, Queer Network project manager..."

Lack of coverage of LGBT people of color decried: "LGBT people of color battle invisibility in both mainstream and LGBT media, said panelists at Friday's breakout session, “Deconstructing Racism When Covering LGBT People of Color Issues In Both Mainstream & LGBT Press.” ... " - The Task Force Releases 'Lesbians Are Women Too,' New Fact Sheets on LBT Women of Color: " Three-quarters of Asian Pacific American lesbian, bisexual and transgender women surveyed believe racism exists within the white LGBT community (76%). And, almost all Asian Pacific American women surveyed believe that homophobia and/or transphobia is a problem within the Asian Pacific American community (94%)."

Ending Isolation, Anti-Racism Crucial to HIV Prevention " It has been from this isolation and toward the hope of community that much of the LGBT culture has been built. However, many people of color do not find sanctuary in the LGBT community, only a familiar kind of isolation born from discrimination and prejudice. According to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force more than half of Black LGBT people agree that racism is a problem in their relations with the LGBT community and one-third reported negative experiences in LGBT establishments.  Addressing concerns of racism in LGBT culture must be immediate and sustained...  Racism is also a betrayal of the core values that we base the LGBT movement on: freedom from discrimination and harassment and equal access and opportunity. These ideals are hard won and are the stepping-stones to creating the kind of community and culture that we all long for and deserve. Coming out of isolation must be something available to all of us in the LGBT community. For these reasons, and many more, we must foster sustained dialogue within our community about the importance of diversity and inclusion..."

Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men and HIV/AIDS in the United States (PDF Dowbload, PDF Download): "Since the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, HIV incidence has been highest among men who have sex with men (MSM). Most new AIDS cases for which MSM is the HIV exposure category are now among MSM of color, who face extraordinary barriers to HIV counseling and testing as well as to care. Moreover, evidence suggests that AIDS surveillance data significantly underrepresent the rate of HIV/AIDS among men of color..." - Policy Facts: Communities of Color and HIV/AIDS. - Young Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men: HIV Epidemiology and Considerations for Prevention (PDF Download).

Young, gay and of color: Working with lesbian, gay and bisexual youth of color requires unique considerations: "Psychologists working with youth of color who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB)--as well as those who question their orientation or engage in same-sex sexual behavior--need to recognize the variety of socioeconomic, family and cultural factors that influence their sexual behaviors and actions, say behavioral researchers in the field... Unfortunately, there is little research on how culture, socioeconomic class and sexual orientation intersect in young people's lives. Even when it comes to the critical area of HIV prevention, "we essentially don't know anything about minority youth except that there is a higher prevalence of HIV infection among minority young men who have sex with men," says Margaret Rosario..."

Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy N/A (Spring 2000, Course): Racism in Queer Communities: What can white people do? - Call for Papers: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services (2007).

Racism in the LGBT community. - Move beyond gay to close racial gaps? Building coalitions key to dissolving racism in gay Atlanta, some say. - Sexual Racism Sux! - Big O: Dark meat only? While most of us know of that white guy who is exclusively interested in dark guys, most of us rarely discuss it. I surveyed my trusty team of sexperts, who shared the following theories about why some guys crave dark meat only..."

Embracing Cultural and Sexual Diversity in the BGLT Community: Conference to address issues of race, ethnicity, and sexuality in “mainstream” Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Trans (BGLT) community. - S'ouvrir à la diversité culturelle et sexuelle au sein de la communauté BGLT: Un colloque se penchera sur les questions d'inclusion de la diversité culturelle et sexuelle au sein de la communauté bisexuelle, gaie, lesbienne et transsexuelle/transgenre (BGLT). - EGALE Attends World Conference against Racism, Releases Report on the Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation (2001). - Égale assiste à la Conférence mondiale contre le racisme et publie un rapport sur l’intersection de la race et de l’orientation sexuelle (2001).  - Deschamps G (1998). We Are Part of a Tradition: A Guide on Two-Spirited People for First Nations Communities. Mino-B'maa:diziwin, 2-Spirited of the 1st Nations, Toronto: PDF Download. Word Download. A Quebec version of the document having the same title "We Are Part of a Tradition: A Guide on Two-Spirited People for First Nations Communities" was produced by the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission: PDF Download.

The Intersection of Sexual Orientation & Race: Considering the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered People of Colour & Two-Spirited People (“GLBT People of Colour & two-spirited People”) - Executive Summary. - Carrefour de l’orientation sexuelle et de l’origine ethnique
comprendre la vie des personnes gaies, lesbiennes, bisexuelles, transsexuelles et transgenres (glbtt) de couleur ainsi que bi-spirituelles - Sommaire. - La intersección de la orientación sexual y la raza: Intentos de Comprender las Experiencias de Personas Gays, Lesbianas, Transgénero de Color y las Personas de Doble Espíritu (“Personas GLBT de Color y Personas de Doble Espíritu”) - Resumen.  - The Intersection of Sexual Orientation & Race: Considering the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered (“GLBT”) People of Colour & Two-Spirited People. Appendicies.. Appendix One: The Survey, Part 1: Identity, Part 2: Community and Family Relationships, Part 3: Oppression and Discrimination, Appendix 2: Bibliography, Appendix 3: Definition of Terms. In French. In Spanish.  - Embracing Cultural and Sexual Diversity in the BGLT Community: Conference to address issues of race, ethnicity, and sexuality in “mainstream” Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Trans (BGLT) community (2004). - S'ouvrir à la diversité culturelle et sexuelle au sein de la communauté BGLT.

The Intersection of Sexual Orientation & Race: Considering the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered (“GLBT”) People of Colour & Two-Spirited People - A Research Paper (2001). - Carrefour de l’orientation sexuelle et de l’origine ethnique: Comprendre la vie des personnes gaies, lesbiennes, bisexuelles, transsexuelles et transgenres (GLBTT) de couleur ainsi que bi-spirituelles - Document de recherche (2001). - La intersección de la orientación sexual y la raza: Considerando las Experiencias de Personas Gays, Lesbianas, Bisexuales y Transgénero (“GLBT”) de Color y de Personas de Doble Espíritu - Documento de Investigación (2001). - van der Meide, Wayne (2002). The Intersections Of Sexual Orientation, Race, Religion, Ethnicity And Heritage Languages: The State Of Research. (A Literature Review & Research Backgrounder Prepared for: Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism Program.) PDF Download. -  Building the Links: The Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation (2003). Prepared by: Chris Boodram, With contributions from Wayne van der Meide, Kim Vance, John Fisher, Fiona Meyer Cook, Anthony Mohamed, and Lisa Lachance (collectively the Egale Canada Building the Links organising committee). - Minority groups within the canadian gay community - Les minorités dans la communauté gaie et lesbienne.

LGBTPM's Advocacy and Support Group for Queer People of Color: "Queer People of Color (QPOC) frequently feel as if they must choose between their ethnic community and the LGBT community because they experience discrimination within both. For both religious and cultural reasons, ethnic minorities are less accepting of sexual orientations other than heterosexuals and the coming out process of QPOC often differs greatly from most LGBT people. The families of QPOC face unique challenges as well, with language and cultural barriers preventing support from resources for parents, like PFLAG. Even within the LGBT community, which should be most accepting of QPOC based on their sexual orientation, QPOC often feel marginalized. It is not uncommon for QPOC to report feeling invisible within the one community they wish to be a part of. At its most extreme form, this discrimination has lead to increasing rates of HIV infection among young gay Asian and African American men who engage in high-risk behavior in order feel accepted by the predominately white gay community. Although LGBTPM cannot easily change attitudes within ethnic communities, we are dedicated to ensuring QPOC medical students feel completely accepted within our LGBT community and that unique health issues of QPOC patients are addressed by physicians."

Outfest Comes Out with "Fusion" Spotlighting Gay People of Color: "Outfest, the group that organizes the annual L.A. lesbian and gay film festival in July, announced it will host "Fusion," a new festival spotlighting films by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people of color... "Fusion is a first-of-its-kind festival that builds bridges between L.A. communities, celebrates local artists, affirms identity and fights homophobia," commented Outfest executive director Stephen Gutwillig in a release. "Up until now, there has never been a cohesive festival that showcased and blended so many ethnicities within a queer context. I'm thrilled Outfest is presenting Fusion the first lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered people of color film festival." - Spike lee’s booty-bumpin’ lesbian sex thang: The director’s new film takes a surprising view of dyke love: "When Spike Lee’s new film “She Hate Me” opens on Wednesday, July 28, viewers will have the chance to see 19 self-identified lesbians, most of them women of color, on the big screen. This is a huge step, certainly, but is it a positive one?"

Resources: - LGBTQ Racial Equity Campaign.  - EGALE. - Queer People of Color Coalition: QPOCC started out last fall, 2004, as a "Committee to Create a More Hospitable Climate for LGBT People of Color" on campus. - Queer and Questioning Asians/Pacific Islanders of Stanford: Asians and Pacific Islanders at Stanford have often lacked visibility within the LGBTQ community, and conversely, LGBTQ members and issues have often been invisible within the API community. With this queer Asian group, we hope to promote racial and ethnic diversity within the larger gay community as well as combat homophobia among Asian-Americans. - Advocates for Youth's Youth of Color Initiative. - Building Anti-racist GSAs: "GSA organizers from around the Bay Area came up with these ideas about why many GSAs are disproportionately white:... Here are some broad strategies that GSAs can use to address these issues and build diverse, anti-racist organizations:..." - How to Fight Racism in the LGBT Community.  - After Elton: archives - articles related to men of color. - Marylanders of Color Collective. - Dismantling Racism: Tools and Resources. - ColorBiNumbers: "a social network of bisexual men, women and couples of all races coming together to celebrate diversity while networking and socializing. We are african american, asian, latin and bi-racial people who welcome all people of color and those who enjoy relating to people of color."

Resource Links: -  Pridelinks.com's Ethnic Group Links. - Resources for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People (Queers) of Color  - youthpride.org Multi-Cultural Links. (The Resource no longer exist: youthpride.org) - Links and Resources for the Study of the Rhetoric of Race. - Gay, Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people of color resource list. - Gays & Lesbians of Color Links. - Resources for GLBT Youth of Color - Safe Schools Coalition. - Queer Youth of Color Resources. - Google: GLBT Race & Ethicity.  - HRC: Focus on Diversity. - Internet Resources: LGBTQQIA People of Color Issues. - Google Directory: Race/Ethnicity. 

Bibliographies: - Bibliography: Ethnicity and sexuality. - LGBT Persons of Color Bibliography. - Books on Race/Ethnicity in the OGLBTC Collection. - Gays & Lesbians of Color Bibliography.

Books: - Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men (Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues, Volume 3) edited by Beverly Greene (Abstract). - Queer Spirits: A Gay Men’s Myth Book- 1995 - by Will Roscoe (Review, list of myths by geographic area). -  Floating Lotus Books and Bua Luang Books Bookstore. - Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology - 2000 - edited by Amy Sonnie. (A Note From the Editor) (Review) (Review Comments) (Review) (10 Sample Pages). - Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q) - 2000 - by Siobhan B. Somerville (Review, Subscription Needed). - Critical Essays: Gay And Lesbian Writers Of Color - 1994 - edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson. - Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self - 2002 - by Rebecca Walker (Review).

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

Academic Searches: Search IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. - Search Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search The National Library of Medicine. 
 

Full Text Articles / Papers / Studies / Reports (and/or Abstracts):

Akerlund M, Cheun M (2000). Teaching beyond the Deficit Model: Gay and Lesbian Issues among African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Journal of Social Work Education, 36(2): 279-.  PDF Download.

Almaguer, Tomas (). Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior.  475-486. In: MS KImmel & MA Messner, Eds. Men's Lives. Fourth Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. PDF Download. xx

Anderson, Eric (----). Comparing the Black & Gay Athlete: Patterns in Oppression. PDF Download.

Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO, 1998). National Indigenous Gay and Transgender Consultation Report and Sexual Health Strategy. PDF Download.  PDF Download.

Arreola SG, et al. (2005). Higher prevalence of childhood sexual abuse among Latino men who have sex with men than non-Latino men who have sex with men: Data from the Urban Men’s Health Study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 29: 285–290. PDF Download. xx

Badgett MVL, Gary Gates G, Saunders L (2005). Double Disadvantage? African American Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from Census 2000. Draft. PDF Download.

Baird BJ (2005). ‘Kerryn and Jackie: Thinking Historically about Lesbian Marriages’. Australian Historical Studies, 36(126): 253-271. PDF Download.

Baldwin GR (2003). What a difference a gay makes: queering the magic negro. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 5.  Full Text.

Battle J, Bennet M (2000). Research on Lesbian and Gay Populations Within the African American Community: What Have We Learned? Perspectives, Spring/Summer.  PDF Download.

Battle J, Cohen CJ, Warren D, Fergerson G, Audam S: NGLTF (2002). Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud. PDF Download. PDF Download.

Buchting, Francisco O (2008). Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendersof Color Sampling Methodology: Strategies for Collecting Data in Small, Hidden, or Hard-to-Reach Groups To Reduce Tobacco-Related Health Disparities. PDF Download. xx

Broodram C (2003). Building the Links: The Intersection of Race and Sexual Orientation. Prepared by: Chris Boodram, With contributions from Wayne van der Meide, Kim Vance, John Fisher, Fiona Meyer Cook, Anthony Mohamed, and Lisa Lachance (collectively the Egale Canada Building the Links organising committee).  (A Research Paper prepared for EGALE Canada) (Full Text)  Not available in French or Spanish.

Brown, Clarence, E (2008). Racism in the Gay Community and Homophobia in the Black Community: Negotiating The Gay Black Male Experience. MS Thesis, Sociology: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. PDF. xx

Brown III, William (2003). Discrimination Dot Com: Racially biased interaction in the online gay male community. McNair Scholars Journal of the University of California, Davis, 6. PDF. xx

Caluya, Gilbert (2006). The (Gay) Scene of Racism: Face, Shame and Gay Asian Males. ACRAWSA e-journal, 2(2). Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. PDF Download. Download Page.

Chung C, Kim A, Lemeshewsky AK (Eds. 1987). Between the Lines: An Anthology by Pacific/Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California. DANCING BIRD PRESS: SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA.  PDF Download.

Cheng, Patrick S (2002). Multiplicity And Judges 19: Constructing A Queer Asian Pacific American Biblical Hermeneutic. Semeia (90/91): 119–33. PDF Download.

Cheng, Patrick S (2000). Liberation from Silence: A Response to Queer Asian American Suffering. Full Text N/A.

Chin TS (1997). "BULLERS" AND "BATTYMEN"  Contesting Homophobia in Black Popular Culture and Contemporary Caribbean Literature. Callaloo 20(1), 127-141. Full text N/A.

Cintron R, Owens T, Cintron M (2007). Health, Culture, HIV/AIDS, and Latino/a College Students. NASPA Journal, 44(1): 84-100. PDF Download.

Cober, Rob (2004). Cultured borders, bordering cultures: lesbian/gay culture, the Australian multiculturalism paradigm and ‘the nations’. Word Is Out. PDF Download. xx

Cochran SD, Mays VM (1988). Epidemiologic and Sociocultural Factors in the Transmission of HIV Infection in Black Gay and Bisexual Men. In M. Shernoff & W.A. Scott (Eds.). The Sourcebook On Lesbian/Gay Health Care: 2002-11. Washington D.C.: National Gay and Lesbian Health Foundation. PDF Download.

Crawford I, Allison KW, Zamboni BD, Soto T (2002). The influence of dual-identity development on the psychosocial functioning of African-American gay and bisexual men.  Journal of Sex Research, 39(3): 179-89. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (Journal of Sex Research: Table of Contents) (PubMed Abstract).

Dang A, Hu M (2005). Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait. A Report From New York's Queer Asian Pacific Legacy Conference, 2004. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute. PDF Download.

das Nair R (2005). Metaminorities and Mental Health: A model of vulnerability for Black and Minority Ethnic Queer Folk  Paper presented at the 2nd Global Conference in Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality, Vienna. PDF Download.  Download Page.

Davidson MM, Huenefeld N (2002). Struggling with two identities: the case of Eileen. Career Development Quarterly, 50(4). Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Diaz RM, Ayala G (2001). Social discrimination and health: The case of Latino gay men and HIV risk. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Downlaod Page. PDF Download. xx

Diaz RM, Ayala G (1999). Love, passion and rebellion: ideologies of HIV risk among Latino gay men in the USA. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1(3): 277-293. PDF Download. xx

Diaz RM, Ayala G, Bein E, Henne J, Marin BV (2001). The impact of homophobia, poverty, and racism on the mental health of gay and bisexual Latino men: findings from 3 US cities. American Journal of Public Health, 91(6): 927-32. PDF Download. PDF Download.

Dolezal C, Carballi-Dieguez (2002). Childhood sexual experiences and the perception of abuse among Latino men who have sex with men. Journal of Sex Research, 39(3): 165-73. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (Journal of Sex Research: Table of Contents) (PubMed Abstract)

Drummond, Murray JN (2005). Asian gay men's bodies. Journal of Men's Studies, 13. Full Text. xx

Dunbar E (2007). Hate Crimes Targeting Race and Sexual Minorities: Same and Different. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download.

Eng, David L (1994). Primal Glances: Race and Psychoanalysis in Lonny Kaneko's "The Shoyu Kid". HMC: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, 1(2). Full Text.

Gray, Sally (2007). [You make me Feel] Mighty Real - David McDiarmid’s art and the space within [the] House. Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries Conference, UTS 2007. PDF Download. xx

Greene B (2007). Homophobia/Heterosexism In Communities of Color. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download.

Greene B (2007). Overview: Lesbians and Gay Men of Color - Between the Rock of Ethnoracial Identity and the Hard Place of Heterosexism. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download. 

Greene, Beverly (2000). African American Lesbian and Bisexual Women. Journal of Social Issues, 56(2): 239-249. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.

Han, Alan (2006). I think you're the smartest race I've ever met: raciaised economies or queer desire. ACRAWSA e-journal, 2(2). Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. PDF Download. Download Page. xx

Han C-s (2007). They Don’t Want To Cruise Your Type: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Exclusion. Social Identities, 13(1): 51-67. PDF Download.  xx

Han C-s, Proctor K, Choi K-H (2007).  Margins Upon Margins: Managing the Stigma of Race and Sexuality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City.  Full Text. Full Text. xx

Harper PB (1995). Walk-On Parts and Speaking Subjects: Screen Representations Of Black Gay Men. Callaloo 18(2), 390-394. Full text N/A.

Hasten, Lauren W (1998). In Search of the "Berdache": Multiple Genders and Other Myths. Paper presented at the "Sex On The Edge" Conference, October, Montreal, Canada. Full text.

Herek G, Gonzalkez-Rivera M (2006). Attitudes toward homosexuality among U.S. Residents of mexican descent. Journal of Sex Research, 43(2): 122-35. Full text. Full text. PDF Download.

HIV Endemic Task Force (HETF, Toronto, Canada, 2001). Summary report of the Community Forum "For Us, By Us, About Us:: An Opportunity for African and Carribean Communities to Address the Issues of HIV/AIDS Related Stgma and Denial. PDF Download.

Hurley M (2003). Then and Now: Gay Men and HIV. The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University. PDF Download.

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari (1997, 1999). My Gay Problem, Your Black Problem.  In: Devon Carbado,  Ed. Black Men on Race, Gender and Sexuality:  A Critical Reader: 303-305. New York: New York University Press (Table of Contents). Part 1. Part 2. xx

Jackson, Peter A (2000). 'That's what rice queens study!' White gay desire and representing Asian homosexualities. Journal of Australian Studies, 65 (June 2000): 181-88, 238.  PDF Download.

Johnson EP (1998). Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African-American Gay Community. Callaloo 21(2), 399-416. Full text. (Subscription Needed)

Kapadia R (2005). We're not gay; we're just foreign!: Desi Drags, Disidentifications and Activist Film in New York. Comparative Cultural Studies, Spring  PDF Download.

Kee, Jone (1998). (Re)sexualizing the Desexualized Asian Male in the Works of Ken Chu and Michael Joo. Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2(1). Full Text. (Alternate Link)

Kudler, Benjamin A (2007). Confronting Race and Racism: Social Identity in African American Gay Men. Thesis, Smith College School for Social Work. PDF Download. Download Page.  xx

Lawrence, Chris et al. (2004). Queensland Survey of Aboriginal and Torres Strait  Islander Men who have Sex with Men: 2004. PDF. xx

Lemelle AJ, Battle J (2004). Black Masculinity Matters in Attitudes Toward Gay Males. Journal of Homosexuality, 47(1: 39-51. PDF.xx

Lewis LJ, Kertzner RM (2003). Toward improved interpretation and theory building of African American male sexualities. Journal od Sex Research, 40(4): 383-95. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com.  PubMed Abstract.

Leslie D, MacNeill L (1995). "Double Positive: Lesbians and Race." In Racism in the Lives of Women: Testimony, Theory, and Guides to Anti-Racist Practice. Adelman and Enguidanos (Eds.). New York: Harrington Park Press. (PDF) xx

Li A, et al (2008).  Caught between homophobia and racism: effects of discrimination upon the sexual behaviour of men who have sex with men (MSM) from ethnic and racial minority communities [in Toronto]. AIDS 2008 - XVII International AIDS Conference: Abstract no. TUPE0750. PDF.

Lin H-L (2005). From Enter the Dragon to Enter the Mullet: Exploring Filmic Representations of East Asian Butch Dykes by Asian Queer Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Canada. Paper presented at The First International Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Bangkok, Thailand, July. PDF Download. Download Page. 

Mao, Limin (2002). Gay Asian and Caucasian men in Sydney: cultural, social and cognitive factors associated with sex practices. School of Education and National Centre of HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales. PDF Downloads (Download Page): Title, Abstract, Contents, Introduction, Chapters 1-7, Bibliography, Appendices.

Malebranche DJ (2003). Black Men who Have Sex with Men and the HIV Epidemic: Next Steps for Public Health. American Journal of Public Health, 93: 862-865.  PDF Download. PDF Download. 

Matteson DR (1997). Bisexual and homosexual behavior and HIV risk among Chinese-, Filipino-, and Korean-American men. Journal of Sex Research, 34(1): 93-104. Full Text. Full Text.

Mays VM, Chatters LM, Cochran SD, Mackness J (1998). African American families in diversity: Gay men and lesbians as participants in family networks. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 29(1): 73-87. PDF Download.

Mays VM, Cochran SD (1998). Kinsey and Male Homosexuality in the African-American Population: A Question of Fit. In Plummer, K. (Ed.). Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society: 98-100. London: Sage. PDF Download.

Mays VM, Cochran SD, Bellinger G, Smith RG, Henley N, Daniels M, Tibbits T, Victorianne GD, Osei OK, Birt DK (1992). The Language of Black Gay Men's Sexual Behavior: Implications For AIDS Risk Reduction. The Journal of Sex Research, 29(3): 425-434. PDF Download.

Mays VM, Yancey AK, Cochran SD, Weber M, Fielding JE (2002). Heterogeneity of Health Disparities Among African American, Hispanic, and Asian American Women: Unrecognized Influences of Sexual Orientation. American Journal of Public Health, 92(4): 632-9. PDF Download, PubMed Abstract.  

McBride DA (1998). Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality and the Problem of Authority. Callaloo 21(2), 363-379. Full text N/A.

McCready LT (2004). Understanding the marginalization of gay and gender non-conforming black male students. Theory Into Practice, 43(2): 136-143. Full text.

Medicine B (2002). Directions in gender research in American Indian societies: Two spirits and other categories. In W. J. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.). Full text.

Miller Jr, RL (2007). Legacy denied: African American gay men, AIDS, and the Black church. Social Work, 52, 51-61. Full text. PDF Download.  xx

Moore, Mignon R (2008). Gendered Power Relations among Women: A Study of Household Decision Making in Black, Lesbian Stepfamilies. American Sociological Review, 73: 335–56.  PDF Download. xx

Moreno C (2002). Invisible Lesbians: Latina Immigrant Lesbian Coming Out Experiences. PhD Dissertation, Maimonides University. PDF Download.

Mutchler, Matt G (AIDS Project Los Angeles, 2001). Race/Ethnicity Matters: Latino Versus Caucasian Young Gay Men’s Sexual Stories. PowerPoint Presentation: American Sociological Association. PowerPoint Presentation.

Nettles R (2007). Challenges to Healthy African American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender Status. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download.

Ohi, Kevin (1999). "I'm not the boy you want": sexuality, "race," and thwarted revolution in Baldwin's 'Another Country.' African American Review 33(2): 261-81.. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. (James Baldwin Resources).

Okazaki S (2002). Influences of culture on Asian Americans' sexuality. Journal of Sex Research, 39(1), 34-41. Full text.

O'Brian D, Travers B (2006). River of Life, Rapids of Change: Understanding HIV Vulnerability among Two-Spirit Youth who Migrate to Toronto. Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research, 1. PDF. xx

Operario D (2003). Asian Pacific Islander MSM: Social Context of HIV Risk. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco. Conference Presentation. PDF Download. xx

Pallotta-Chiarolli M, Van de Ven P, Prestage G, Kippax S (1999)."Too Busy Studying and No Time for Sex?" Homosexually Active Male International Students and Sexual Health. Monograph 4/1999,  National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales. Full text.

Payne R (2007). Gay scene, queer grid.  Paper presented at the "Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries" Conference. PDF Download. Download Page. xx

Peplau LA, Cochran SD, Mays VM (1997). A national survey of the intimate relationships of African American lesbians and gay men: A look at commitment, satisfaction, sexual behavior and HIV Disease. In B. Greene (Eds.). Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues:  Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men: 11-38. Newbury Park: Sage. PDF Download.

Petchauer EM, et al. (2008). Initiating a Culturally Responsive Discourse of Same Sex Attraction among African American Males. Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1(1): 4-20. PDF. xx

Poon M K-L, Ho P T-T (2002). A Qualitative Analysis of Cultural and Social Vulnerabilities to HIV Infection Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Asian Youth. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, Vol. 14(3): 43-78. PDF Download. PDF Download.

Poon MKL, Ho PTT, Wong JPH (2001, Spring/Summer). Developing a omprehensive AIDS prevention outreach program: A needs assessment survey of MSM of East and Southeast Asian descent who visit bars and/or bath houses in Toronto. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 10 (1/2): 25-39. PDF Download.

Poon MK, Ho PT, Wong JP, Wong G, Lee R (2005). Psychosocial Experiences of East and Southeast Asian men who use gay Internet chatrooms in Toronto: an implication for HIV/AIDS prevention. Ethnic Health, 10(2): 145-67. Abstract. PDF Download. xx

Ramirez CA (2006). Bearing Witness: Resiliency In the Lives of (Homo)Sexual Latino Men. Master of Arts Disseration. Digital Arts and New Media, University of California, Santa Cruz.  PDF Download.

Ramirez-Valles, Jesus (2007). The Quest for Effective HIV-Prevention Interventions for Latino Gay Men. Amercian Journal of Preventative Medicine, 32(4S): S34-5. PDF N/A. Google Cache. xx

Retzloff, Tim (2007). Eliding trans Latin o/a queer experience in U.S. LGBT history: José Sarria and Sylvia Rivera reexamined. Centro Journal, 19(1): 140-161. PDF. xx

Riggs, Marlon T (1991, 1999). Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a SNAP! Queen. In: Devon Carbado,  Ed. Black Men on Race, Gender and Sexuality:  A Critical Reader: 306-311. New York: New York University Press (Table of Contents). PDF Download. xx

Rowell CH (1998). An Interview with Carl Phillips. Callaloo 21(1), 204-217. Full text N/A.

Rowell CH (1998). An Interview with Reginald Shepherd. Callaloo 21(2), 290-307. Full text N/A.

Ryan, Maura (2007). Queer Internal Colonialism: Aiding Conquest Through Borderless Discourse. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007. (Abstract & Full Text) xx

Shepherd R (1999). Coloring Outside The Lines: An Essay At Definition. Callaloo 22(1), 134-140. Full text N/A.

Teunis, Niels (2003) . Racism in the San Francisco gay community: An experimental ethnography to create new visibility to an old problem.  Word Download. Related Information. xx

 Themistou T, Wang J, Allan W (2005). Transcending socialised limitations in forming and maintaining intimate relationships in Asian gay men in Australia. PDF Download.

Tomlinson H (2007). Young Men of Color Who Have Sex with Men: HIV Epidemiology and Considerations for Prevention. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download.

Toro-Alfonso J (2007). Latino Perspectives on Sexual Orientation: The Desire That We Do No Dare to Name. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download.

Trans Programming at the 519 (2002?). The Toronto Trans and Two-Spirite Primer: An Introduction to Lower-income, Sex-working and Street-involved Transgendered, Transsexual & Two-Spirit Service Users in Toronto. PDF Download.

Travers R, Allman D, Lau W, Maxwell W, Calzavara L (2001). An HIV Research Needs Assessment of MSM in Ethno-Cultural Communities: Perspectives of Volunteers and Service Providers. Toronto, Canada. PDF Document. PDF Document. Word Document. 

Trexler, Richard C (2002). Making the American berdache: Choice or constraint? Journal of Social History, 35: 613-36. Full Text, Find Articles: findarticles.com. Journal of Social History, Table of Contents, Vol. 35.

van der Meide, Wayne (2001). The Intersection of Sexual Orientation & Race: Considering the Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered (GLBT) People of Colour & Two-Spirited People. (A Research Paper prepared for EGALE Canada) (Full Text)  Excerpts.

van der Meide, Wayne (2001). Carrefour De L’orientation Sexuelle Et De L’Origine Ethnique. : Comprendre La Vie Des Personnes Gaies, Lesbiennes, Bisexuelles, Transsexuelles Et Transgenres (GLBTT) De Couleur Ainsi Que Bi-Spirituelles. (Document de recherche préparé pour ÉGALE Canada) Rapport complet.

van der Meide, Wayne (2001). La Intersección de la Orientación Sexual y la Raza: Considerando las Experiencias de Personas Gays, Lesbianas, Bisexuales y Transgénero (“GLBT”) de Color y de Personas de Doble Espíritu. (Documento de Investigación Preparado por EGALE Canadá.) Informe completo.

van der Meide, Wayne (2002). The Intersections Of Sexual Orientation, Race, Religion, Ethnicity And Heritage Languages: The State Of Research. (A Literature Review & Research Backgrounder Prepared for: Canadian Heritage, Multiculturalism Program.) PDF Download. Excerpts.

van der Meide, Wayne (2002). Carrefour de l’orientation sexuelle et de la race, de la religion, de l’origine ethnique et de la langue d’origine: etat de la recherche. PDF Download.

Viteri MA (2005+). Translating Race and Sexuality in the LGBT "Latino" Diaspora in the U.S. Vitrubia Perspectives, 1(2). Full text.

Wallace,  David Shane  (2006). “Come the Final Throwdown, What is s/he First, Black or Gay?”: Revolutionary Arguments in Randall Kenan’s A Visitation of Spirits and Me’shell Ndegeocello’s Cookie: the Anthropological Mixtape. Queer America, 4(1). PDF. Download Page.  xx

Ward EG (2005). Homophobia, hypermasculinity and the US black church. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 7(5): 493–504.  PDF. xx

Williams, Vikki (2002). Representations in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & transgendered. (Australia) PDF. Citation. xx

Wilson, Javarré Cordero (2006). The Negation of Black Gay Men in Castro’s Bars. The Black Studies Journal. Abstract. Full Text: Word Download. xx

Wong FY (2007). HIV In Asian and Pacific Islander MSM In The U. S. In: August 2007 Communiqué, Special Section: Psychological Perspectives On Sexual Orientation in Communities of Color. PDF Download. xx

Wong A, et al. (2007). Identités Invisibles: Diversité sexuelle des minorités visibles, des communautés culturelles et des personnes bispirituelles au Québec. Mémoire présenté à la commission de consultation sur les pratiques d'accommodements reliés aux différences culturelles par la Coalition MultiMundo et Ethnoculture, en collaboration avec l’équipe de recherche Sexualités et Genres : Vulnérabilité et Résilience (SVR). PDF. xx

Wu, Rose (2004).  Becoming an Inclusive Community: Challenges from Hong Kong's Tongzhi Movement. In God's Image 23(1). PDF Download.

Xu, Mingzhao (2004). The Negotiation of Political Identities: Being Queer and an Asian Pacific Islander. PDF. Prize Essay, University of California, Davis: Download Page. xx

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Academic Searches: Search IngentaConnect: The most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. - Search Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online. - Search JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive. - Search The National Library of Medicine.
 

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