Asian BL - BL/Gay Dramas and movi 1980's to 2021 (823 shows) - MyDramaList

Contents:

• THE URGENT QUTN GAY ASIAN-AMERIN MEN ARE ASKG THEMSELV
• DISCLOSURE, DISCRIMATN AND SIRE: EXPERIENC OF BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN GAY MEN BRA
• NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?
• ASIAN BL - BL/GAY DRAMAS AND MOVI 1980'S TO 2021
• ANTI-BLACK, GAY, ASIAN BIAS FUEL CALIFORNIA HATE CRIME SURGE
• ANTI-BLACK, GAY, ASIAN BIAS FUEL CALIFORNIA HATE CRIME SURGE

THE URGENT QUTN GAY ASIAN-AMERIN MEN ARE ASKG THEMSELV

The prence of Boys Love seri, a unique drama genre that picts homoerotic relatnships between male characters, has creased signifintly recent years.

It was probably the first time Thai entertament history that two boys wh homosexual clatns were featured the lead. Thai Boys Love is a lol appropriatn of yaoi, the Japan-origatg form of homoerotic fictn that revolv around the romantic narrativ between a mascule boy (lled “e”) and a more feme boy (lled “seme”). Uta Boonorana, a medil doctor who’s also an LGBTQ fictn thor known by his psdonyms, Patrick Rangsimant and Mor Tood (“Homo Doctor” Thai).

He’s also the md behd GMMTV’s LGBTQ productns, many of which have been praised for their plex and thought-provokg narrativ, cludg Gay OK Bangkok. 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.

DISCLOSURE, DISCRIMATN AND SIRE: EXPERIENC OF BLACK AND SOUTH ASIAN GAY MEN BRA

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?

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 BL - BL/GAY DRAMAS AND MOVI 1980'S TO 2021

” 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. ” 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.

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.

ANTI-BLACK, GAY, ASIAN BIAS FUEL CALIFORNIA HATE CRIME SURGE

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.

But here’s a mostly-whe gay world that wants to wele you. ”A Pri celebratn on June 27, 2021 New York Tompks//Getty ImagRoss’s experience speaks to a realy mon among more than a dozen gay Asian Amerins Esquire terviewed, all of whom flagged that though they have found joy and succs, blossomed om toxic soil. ”Like many Asian-Amerin men, Miller was disappoted by gay bars and the bigotry he eventually found those self-ascribed templ of acceptance.

“Beg a gay Asian person, you accept as your realy, ” he said. ” He lls his life a “charmed” one, wh a veat: He feels he is tolerated by both the gay muny and Amerins at large om “the distance of a hyphen.

ANTI-BLACK, GAY, ASIAN BIAS FUEL CALIFORNIA HATE CRIME SURGE

” A mory upon a mory, gay Asian-Amerin men scribe a lot of overlap their inti: Both sis of that tersectnal inty are affected by enclave livg ( eher ethnic neighborhoods or gayborhoods), prumptn of crazy rich liftyl spe extreme wealth dispary for both Asian and gay Amerins, and a sheen of emasculatn that was famoly ritured a racist natnal magaze spread om 2004 that asked of s rears, “Gay or Asian? Consir Gee Takei, who lled Star Trek’s adjtment of Hika Sulu to be gay a “twistg” of the show’s origal visn.

Highlights—like poet and novelist Ocean Vuong’s poignantly msy sex scen On Earth We’re Briefly Geo, or the tenr shower scene last year’s Taiwane gay romance Your Name Engraved Here—are few and fleetg.