ABSTRACT

Asian American Sexualities works to dispel the stereotype of oriental sexual decadence, as well as the "model minority" heterosexual Asian sterotype in the US.

Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS. The relationship of the gay and lesbian experience to Asian American studies and Ethnic Studies is also explored.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Home Bodies and the Body Politic

part I|62 pages

Home Bodies

chapter 1|15 pages

Maiden Voyage

Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America

chapter 2|13 pages

Stories from the Homefront

Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons

chapter 3|14 pages

Searching for Community

Filipino Gay Men in New York City

chapter 4|5 pages

Breaking through the Chrysalis

Hanh Thi Pham

chapter 5|10 pages

Preserving the Paradox

Stories from a Gay-Loh

part II|47 pages

The Body Politic

chapter 6|2 pages

Living in Asian America

An Asian American Lesbian's Address before the Washington Monument (1979)

chapter 8|9 pages

In Our Own Way

A Roundtable Discussion

chapter 9|11 pages

From the 1970s to the 1990s

Perspective of a Gay Filipino American Activist

chapter 11|9 pages

Funny Boys and Girls 1

Notes on a Queer 2 South Asian Planet

part III|70 pages

Figuring Desire

chapter 12|22 pages

In the Shadows of a Diva

Committing Homosexuality in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly

chapter 14|12 pages

Toward a Struggle against Invisibility

Love between Women in Thailand

chapter 16|18 pages

Looking for My Penis

The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn

part IV|19 pages

Bloodlines

chapter 17|17 pages

Communion

A Collaboration on AIDS

part V|31 pages

A Tongue in Your Ear

chapter 18|2 pages

My Grandmother's Third Eye

chapter 19|4 pages

Bak Sze, White Snake

chapter 20|3 pages

Tita Aida

(for Jorge F. Casaclang)

chapter 21|2 pages

River Deep

& All Those Pretty Women

chapter 22|6 pages

Grandma's Tales

chapter 23|3 pages

Queer Pilipino Rebolusiyon

With ms. nikki giovanni to thank for

chapter 25|3 pages

Aloes

from The Country of Dreams and Dust