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• VANUVERE CREAT WEBSE WHERE GAY ASIAN MEN N SHARE THEIR DATG STORI
• GAY DATG VANUVER
• VANUVER'S 100,000 CHE CHRISTIANS 'GHT' OVER GAY BATE

VANUVERE CREAT WEBSE WHERE GAY ASIAN MEN N SHARE THEIR DATG STORI

Brish ColumbiaVanuvere creat webse where gay Asian men n share their datg storiAsian men face discrimatn both person and onle, wh many people's profil on datg webs and apps statg "No Asians", says Edward Ho, the founr of the webse thedatgGAM. Edward Ho said some profil on datg webs and apps will specifilly say 'no Asians'Edward Ho has created a webse where gay Asian men n share their stori of experiencg discrimatn the datg muny. (Gav Fisher/CBC)When Edward Ho first began to explore the gay muny Vanuver over 20 years ago, he was surprised by all the labels and attus that existed around people's race.

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'No Asians'Ho has now started the webse The Datg GAM, where gay Asian men n share their stori about facg racism while datg. "Ho said that people's profil on gay datg webs and apps like Grdr will specifilly say "no Asians", or say that the person is not terted people om other said that this n make gay Asian men — pecially young, imprsnable men who have only recently e out — feel like they are "send class", and ternalize that type of thkg. That's kd of basic, " Ho fil om CBC's On the CoastTo hear the full story listen to the d labelled: Vanuvere creat webse where gay Asian men n share their stori.

You don't have to look at numbers to know that Vanuver rints of East Asian scent form a signifint portn of the if you do want numbers, here they are: acrdg to the 2011 Natnal Hoehold Survey, Che (411, 470), Korean (48, 425), and Japane (28, 345) people make up 21 percent of Metro Vanuver's wh the lol LGBT muni, out of all the var queer cultural groups that exist—om aborigal and Jewish to South Asian and Filipo—there is a glarg empty space unfilled by any publicly visible or proment East Asian Canadian groups, servg people of Che, Taiwane, Korean, or Japane gap has existed sce the Asian Society for the Interventn of AIDS closed 2011 after 16 years of providg servic Cantone, Mandar, Korean, and Japane on issu related to HIV and June, Malaysian-born Vanuver rint Edward Ho did lnch The Datg GAM, a webse for gay Asian men to share datg stori and to addrs issu such as how to handle sexual racism. Gay Canada 2014, he said he spoke wh many anizatns who simply wanted to translate directly om English to another language, such as Japane, Che, or Korean.

“If you actually see yourself reprented the material or the ntent, then you’re more pelled to actually attend and nnect, ” he a posive example, Ng said he was imprsed how much of the lol Che Canadian muny turned out to attend ank theatre pany's 2016 play Ga Tg, about a Csian man who viss the Che parents of his ceased gay partner.

VANUVER'S 100,000 CHE CHRISTIANS 'GHT' OVER GAY BATE