..., the media framed black and gay communities as distinctive and essentially de-intersecting black and gay identities. Black feminist approaches Blacks California Proposition Critical race theory Delgado Fernando Frames F word faggot Gays Hall Stuart Hasian Marouf Jr Identity LGBTs Washington...

...This chapter analyzes the nature of racism experienced by gay Asian American men in the larger gay community. Racism in the gay community is based largely on beliefs about the desirability of one race over another as potential sexual partners. Within this hierarchy, White men are promoted as being...

... of methods that address racial and sexual inequalities in the larger society. By doing so, they are able to increase their self-esteem by constructing a positive sense of self, thus helping to mitigate the stigma associated with being a racial minority in the gay community, and a sexual minority within...

...In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, White gay man is exalted as the ideal. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too “pretty,” being sidelined in the gay community is only the latest in a long line...

...This concluding chapter discusses how gay Asian American men are more interested in carving a social space that allows them to address both their gay and Asian American identities simultaneously rather than integrating themselves into the larger gay community. An example of this is how gay Asian...

... contamination and way in which literary and artistic cultures can unsettle categories of identity. Finally, this chapter looks at another form of exclusion by examining the internal and external discourse surrounding the gay community. Bennett William canon education identity Reagan Ronald Stanford...