ABSTRACT
This article looks at the symbolically central position occupied by white men even in those ethnic gay texts-such as Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied and Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston-which proclaim their political choice to side with the ethnic rather than the gay community. The main site for this lingering concern lies in the interracial desire sometimes directed exclusively towards white men by ethnic gay men. Through illustrations provided by such authors as Larry Duplechan, Norman Wong,Steven Corbin and Melvin Dixon, a critical examination is conducted todelineate the overdetermined condition which tends to politicize
suchdesire as racial self-hatred, and also to explore some probable space thatshould be exempt from this overall problematization for more sophisticatedthinking.
