"No matter what you do, you’re pathologized as a gay that’s tryg to act mascule or an Asian tryg to be mascule."
Contents:
- ‘FIRE ISLAND’ STAR JOEL KIM BOOSTER ON BEG GAY AND ASIAN: ‘I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM’
- STAR GAYSIAN: JOEL KIM BOOSTER
- ‘FIRE ISLAND’: MEET THE POWER TR BEHD THE SUMMER’S SWEETT, FUNNIT GAY ROM-COM
‘FIRE ISLAND’ STAR JOEL KIM BOOSTER ON BEG GAY AND ASIAN: ‘I’M PROUD OF WHO I AM’
” Booster is Korean-Amerin and gay.
STAR GAYSIAN: JOEL KIM BOOSTER
He says his parents disvered he was gay by readg his journal when he was a teenager: “At that pot my life, wasn’t an trospective ‘thoughts and dreams’ kd of journal, ” he says, “but more of a BuzzFeed list of guys’ dicks I was suckg.
‘FIRE ISLAND’: MEET THE POWER TR BEHD THE SUMMER’S SWEETT, FUNNIT GAY ROM-COM
” He lik to joke he knew he was gay before he figured out he was Asian. When Asian-Amerin men’s sexualy is granted, is the exceptn to the Shimomura, "Yellow Terror, " 2008, acrylic on nvas, Christy & Bill Gtrex Collectn, Kansas Cy, if Asian-Amerin men have typilly been rced to nothg more than a joke, then today they are begng to be seen as posssg their own sexualy — gay or straight, don’t really matter, actually — that pots to more clive ias of masculy.
And this ph, this ristance, is what mak the jok of someone like Booster, livered om his perspective as a transnatnal adoptee and gay man, feel at once both obv and very surprisg. Here he is 2017: “But actually, you guys, that might have more to do wh beg gay and sleepg wh men than has to do wh beg Asian. But he’s specifilly ma a name for himself as a gay Korean-Amerin edian who classifi himself as a “Hot Asian.
“I’d look at myself and say, ’Why am I treated like a send-class cizen the gay muny?