Very Few People Say “No Wh”: Gay Men of Color and The Racial Polics of Dire - PMC

Contents:

• VERY FEW PEOPLE SAY “NO WH”: GAY MEN OF COLOR AND THE RACIAL POLICS OF DIRE
• GAY LIFE AT RICE
• THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE

VERY FEW PEOPLE SAY “NO WH”: GAY MEN OF COLOR AND THE RACIAL POLICS OF DIRE

They still walk by me sometim, the mixed Asian and whe gay upl, and I se as both men seem to project their securi on to me, holdg hands a ltle tighter as they walk by.

GAY LIFE AT RICE

Jason has been tryg to pick up Daoqg for hours, but he don't stand a chance: Daoqg's totally the Sticky Rice homosexual Asian male who is predomantly attracted to Asian mal.

This term is an Asian versn of mashed rice gay Asian mal are often bashed by Elr Rice Queens (Olr homosexual whe mal who is predomantly attracted to much young Asian mal), and ually been scribe as "bter" bee the sticky rice have no tert datg rice queens - pecially rice queens old enough to be their term "Bter sticky rice" is an example of racism - as there is no siar discrimated term agast mashed potato (Homosexual whe mal who is predomantly attracted to whe mal). Funny enough, Bter sticky rice is most ed by rice has been tryg to pick up Xie for hours, but he don't stand a chance - apart om Xie is a sticky rice, Xie only date guys around his age - he do need a sugar the sticky rice to gay Asian mal who claim to feel attracted to (and often even generally associate) ONLY wh other Asian people.

Ls attractive) homosexual Asian male who choos to associate wh and date only other Asian mal; this orientatn is often the rult of bterns over failg to generate any sexual tert among non-Asian (maly Whe) suors.

THUNR WAIV RUDY GAY, PER REPORT, CLEARG WAY FOR JACK WHE

Unfortunately, until more Gay Asian Men start to boost their self-teem and stop seekg approval, those feelgs of hatred toward their fellow Asians will never disappear. That is why you see so many Gay Asian Men wh blond streaks their jet-black hair, wearg signer cloth, readg Martha Stewart, and chasg after whe guys (regardls of age).

Specifilly for gay men, a slim hairls body may provi men who posss those tras wh sexual currency at a “Twk bar, ” but those same tras would have ls currency at a “Leather bar, ” where burlier bodi are nsired more sirable. While a number of different typ of sexual fields that n be found the gay muny have been discsed the amic lerature as well as the popular prs, there has been ls attentn paid to the ways that erotic words are socially anized (Mart and Gee 2006).

To do so, we brgg together the sexual fields perspective wh the growg lerature on sexual racism, an act of eher sexually excludg non-wh as potential partners or cludg racial mori as sexual partners based only on racial several scholars have noted, ntemporary gay life is marked by high levels of racism directed towards gay men of lor by gay whe men, wh much of the racism maniftg self as negative sexual attus towards, and sexual excln or fetishizatn of, non-whe men (Armstrong 2002; Bébé 2001; Epste 1996; McBri 2005; Tenunis, 2007). After examg onle personal ads and terviewg gay men, Robson (2015) found that gay whe men often exclu gay men of lor as potential sexual partners while nyg that their racial preferenc are racist nature. In fact, several studi have shown that gay whe men were much more likely to prefer their own race and actively exclu non-wh as potential sexual than gay men of lor (Lundquist and L 2015; Ph and Kfman 2003; Rafalow, Feliciano, and Robt 2017; Smh 2014).

Dpe gay whe men’s sistence that sexual excln was not racism but rather personal preference, and that the personal preferenc have nothg to do wh racism, Collanr and his lleagu (2015) found that attus toward sexual excln were related to almost every intified factor associated wh racist attus general. More importantly, the thors found that even gay whe men who do not actively engage acts of sexual excln were credibly tolerant of racist behavrs om other gay whe men who did. Th, sexual racism should be unrstood not as personal preference, but as “problematic ndns that stcture the very formatn of romantic relatnships” that is neher benign nor trivial (Bedi 2015: 998) the ia of sexual racism has been wily discsed the popular prs, and amic studi have also documented the racial hierarchy of sire the gay muny, there have been fewer attempts to systematilly exame how such racialized hierarchi of sire are unrstood by gay men of lor and, more importantly, the impact the racial hierarchi have on them.

In this paper, we attempt to addrs both sexual racism as is experienced by gay men of lor and exame the nsequenc that sexual racism has on members of the groups.

Wh any sexual field, some dividual e to be seen as more sirable than other dividuals pendg on the tras that they posss that are valued by the specific sexual field which they discsg gay sexual fields, Green (2008; 2011) intifi a number of potential tras that fluence the level of sirabily that any given dividual might posss. As evinced by Green’s own acunts of his field work, and the statements ma by participants his study, race plays a pivotal role fg attractivens and sirabily across var sexual fields wh the gay muny.