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GAY SPOT/GS = 乐点/点 [PRCHA, 2007-]
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Dcribed as the longt-nng queer prt publitn Cha, which "began as a listgs and liftyle magaze, " later "evolvg to a rpected outlet for mentary and longform journalism" (see Dave Y article *SupCha*, October 28, 2019) prented varly as: GS, Gay Spot, Gayspot Magaze, 乐点, 点, and (translerated) Le COPIES ARE ARCHIVED HERE FOR PRESERVATION AND RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea.
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In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year.
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” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.