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THE URGENT QUTN GAY ASIAN-AMERIN MEN ARE ASKG THEMSELV
Gay Asian-Amerin men are askg qutns of inty: What do beg Amerin mean? What is Asian enough? And how n queerns rencile s “no Asians” hab? * asian man gay *
Every night he go to gay bars Portland, Oregon, Jt Riel, a 39-year-old Filipo immigrant who works as a data manager for lol urts, gets h on by whe men. A 2019 study—actually a pool of four studi— the journal Social Psychologil and Personaly Science termed that Asian-Amerin men are seen as “more Amerin” if they are gay.
That science recirculated among the gay muny this year as new light was shed on Asian-Amerin inty amid a natnal spree of anti-AAPI vlence. Wh this urgency to fe their own experienc and the begng of the mise of -swchg, gay Asian-Amerin men are askg qutns spe such mixed signals—or perhaps bee of them: What do beg more Amerin really mean? “Whe gay men look at me as a refugee, ” said Kenrick Ross, 41, who is Indo-Guyane and the executive director of the Natnal Queer Asian Pacific Islanr Alliance.