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Contents:

• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• ASIAN GAY MEN'S MUNY SURVEY
• ASIAN GAY MEN
• MIDDLE EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN GAY/BI MEN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• SYDNEY SNANEW GAY SNA WH MORN FACILI; OPEN 24 HOURS.SYDNEYMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETHOTELS · DISUNTSON TODAYBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASBEACH SERVICTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPSYDNEY SNA
• GAY ASIAN - AUSTRALIAN PROUD FROM SYDNEY-MELBOURNE
• GAY SYDNEY · CY GUI

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

Rilun Li says racist phras like "sorry, not to Asians" on gay datg app profil make him feel unfortable. "I feel I am an outsir, " he the annual Mardi Gras celebratns take place Sydney this weekend, Mr Li is speakg out about his ranged om a particularly "huiatg" cint a few years ago at a nightclub to the racist language he's seeg on gay datg apps.

"People need to pot out the racism [they] have been experiencg orr to help get rid of unfair stereotyp about Asians, " he on datg apps Gay datg app Grdr scrapped an ethnicy filter functn 2020.

(Rters: Aly Song)Racism on datg apps was unr the spotlight June 2020 when one of the most popular gay datg apps, Grdr, removed an ethnicy filter — which allowed ers to screen out people om certa backgrounds — and updated er 's muny guil also explicly ban racial abe and the time, gay Atralians of lour poted out that sexual racism on datg apps was still "rife" years on, Latrobe Universy rearcher Dr Gene Lim said not much had changed except that exprsns of racism were more subtle. In Sydney, siar HIV&STI-foced behavural surveillance among Gay Asian Men was nducted 1999 and 2002.

ASIAN GAY MEN'S MUNY SURVEY

In the latt round, apart om tradnal offle recment om a number of specific venu and events wh high clientele of gay Asian men, onle recment was troduced and later on expand beyond Sydney (to Melbourne, llaboratn wh ARCSHS, La Trobe Universy and the Victorian AIDS Council). The latt round of the Sydney Gay Asian Men Survey was led and sponsored by the CALD Gay Men Actn Group (SLHD, SESLHD, SWSLHD, NSLHD, WSLHD, ACON, Multicultural HIV and Hepatis Service [MHAHS] and CSRH). This type of muny-based perdic behavural surveillance aims to addrs CALD gay men’s HIV and health promotn needs by velopg, implementg and ordatg social rearch, health promotn and social marketg activi, nsistent wh NSW HIV and STIs Strategic Plans.

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

ASIAN GAY MEN

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

MIDDLE EASTERN AND SOUTH ASIAN GAY/BI MEN

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. 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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

” 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. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

” (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. ” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

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” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene. We’re here to help gay, bisexual and same sex attracted men om Asian cultural backgrounds take ntrol of their health.

We provi rmatn on relevant health issu, and we offer a range of specific and general servic livered by rg people who genuely unrstand the health issu affectg Asian gay men. Our Work Wh Asian Gay Men.

We’re here to help gay men om Asian cultural backgrounds take ntrol of their health by providg a range of programs, workshops, rourc and events. Unrstandg and rcg the impact of HIV and STIs among Asian gay men NSW.

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Unrstandg and addrsg health and wellbeg issu which are specific to Asian gay men NSW. Strengtheng the muny works for Asian gay men NSW by partnerg wh groups and anisatns which support them.

ConversAsians is a support group for gay men om Asian backgrounds.

ConversAsians provis a safe space for Asian gay men to meet new people, share stori and discs our issu. We aim to velop healthy and engaged Asian Gay Men muni. SocialisAsians is a social group to llaborate and support Asian gay men.

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It helps to nnect onle or anise events and meet-ups as Asian gay men.