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Contents:

• GAY ASIAN BOOKS
• GAY FICTN: EAST ASIAN HISTORIL
• OUT OF A FAR COUNTRY: A GAY SON'S JOURNEY TO GOD. A BROKEN MOTHER'S SEARCH FOR HOPE. PAPERBACK – MAY 3, 2011
• RTORIED SELV: AUTOBGRAPHI OF QUEER ASIAN / PACIFIC AMERIN ACTIVISTS (HAWORTH GAY & LBIAN STUDI) 1ST EDN
• GEISHA OF A DIFFERENT KD: GAY ASIAN MEN AND THE GENRG OF SEXUAL INTY
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• 8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• ASIAN BL - BL/GAY DRAMAS AND MOVI 1980'S TO 2021
• THE GAY COOKBOOK HARDVER – APRIL 27, 2020
• ‘FIRE ISLAND’: MEET THE POWER TR BEHD THE SUMMER’S SWEETT, FUNNIT GAY ROM-COM
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

GAY ASIAN BOOKS

Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tal of Gay Indonians and Green Card Marriag by Yka Lutfi TuanakottaIn the wty personal says, an Indonian thor lv to his adjtment to Ameri.

Yaraana: Gay Wrg om South Asia, eded by Hoshang MerchantEded by the inic poet Hoshang Merchant, Yaraana, published 1999, tak pri of place as the first South Asian anthology of wrg about male homosexual sire. Yet wh this grotque world, Das plays masterfully wh the ia of queerns – gay sex and love stori, y, but more profoundly, the herent fluidy of sexual inty and genr. Shekhar’s searg novel, fally, is an terrogatn, not of sexualy, but of masculy Women: Beg Lbian Unprivileged India eded by Maya SharmaA necsary rrectn to the predomantly urban and upper class lerary pictns of homosexualy the untry, this book documents the stori of ten workg class queer women across North India.

Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra, Translated by Rashmi Terdal Celebrated Kannada thor Vasundhendra waed for several years before he fally gathered the urage to publish Mohanaswamy, a llectn of short stori about gay men India.

GAY FICTN: EAST ASIAN HISTORIL

Cocintally released on 11 December 2013, the day the Supreme Court of India upheld Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co crimalisg gay sex (the dranian law was partially stck down on 6 September 2018), the book eventually went on to bee a btseller.

Harper CollsOccupyg a rare space Indian language wrg that addrs homosexualy, the short stori centre on Mohanaswamy who is abandoned by his partner for a woman at the very start of the book.

Through the vivid and grty stori that follow, we glimpse the experienc, securi, huiatns and fears of a gay man starg down bigotry and embarkg on a search for acceptance. In an terview wh Lambda, Chen Chen said that this llectn is about his mother and his “msy, msy relatnship wh her” and his tough life as young gay man among other thgs.

OUT OF A FAR COUNTRY: A GAY SON'S JOURNEY TO GOD. A BROKEN MOTHER'S SEARCH FOR HOPE. PAPERBACK – MAY 3, 2011

Come celebrate Pri Day wh the tl; This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson, Conventnally Yours by Annabeth Albert and Boyiend Material by Alexis HallWhen thkg about your Pri Month readg list, addg LGBTQ+ South Asian books might not be the first thg to e to md. For transparency’s sake, on this list there are: 32 books wh lbian characters, 33 books wh bisexual+ characters, 30 wh gay characters, 17 wh trans characters, 5 wh tersex characters, and 4 wh asexual characters (y, I know that don’t add up to 100 bee some of the books have more than one LGBTQIA character them! There’s a lot of awome stuff happeng this book narrated by teen poet Gabi: llege applitns, pregnancy, tersectnal femism, race, beg Mexin-Amerin, fat activism, and your parents not acceptg that you’re gay.

RTORIED SELV: AUTOBGRAPHI OF QUEER ASIAN / PACIFIC AMERIN ACTIVISTS (HAWORTH GAY & LBIAN STUDI) 1ST EDN

A science fictn book that speaks directly to gay nversn mps, More Happy Than Not is about 16-year-old Aaron, who is reverg om his father’s suici wh the help of his mom and girliend who he lov. Two Boys Kissg is a well-known gay YA for a reason, bee of s unique stcture: ’s the story of two boys tryg to set a new Guns world rerd for the longt kiss narrated by a Greek Chos of the generatn of gay men lost to AIDS.

GEISHA OF A DIFFERENT KD: GAY ASIAN MEN AND THE GENRG OF SEXUAL INTY

A fast-paced dystopian tale remiscent of the Matrix that overturns all the trop of the genre and featur a gay ma character of lor where his sexualy is not the plot pot! At s re ’s a love story of Liza and Annie, whose iendship blossoms to love and leads them to have to al wh homophobia om fay and their schools.

Etta is tired of alg wh the labels: not gay enough for the Dyk, her ex-clique, thanks to beg bi; not ty and whe enough for ballet; and not sick enough to look anorexic (partially thanks to revery). He walks through the straed relatnship he had wh his mother and the need to say goodbye to affirm his own a gay Che-Amerin immigrant, he talks about how, unlike others, the natural world is not a place of solace. 21What 's about: Dugan go Shakpearean her sophomore novel about two bi (well, one might be pan — she's still figurg that out) teens a David-and-Goliath ic shop suatn.

Release Date: May 5What 's about: Callenr's groundbreakg sophomore YA stars a Black trans boy named Felix who's lookg for love and stead fds himself on a qut for revenge when someone publicly blasts his adname and pre-transn photos. Release date: May 26What 's about: A UK import, this novel verse about a mixed-race gay teen who fds himself (and his persona of The Black Flamgo) through the Drag Society won a Stonewall before ever htg stati. 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.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

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.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

” 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. 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.

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.

8 GREAT BOOKS BY LGBTQ AUTHORS FROM PLAC WHERE IT’S ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

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.

Through 16 piec, Chee exam his multiple inti as a Korean Amerin, gay man, lover and wrer, posg urgent qutns along the way about the space between life and art. From joyful stori about queer Black girls to memoirs of what means to be Black and gay, the thors prent credible and affirmg stori to read now or anytime.

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

You may regnize Baldw as an fluential wrer om the Civil Rights era, but he was also eply passnate and outspoken about discrimatn agast gay and lbian people as an openly gay man himself. Today, May 17th, is the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia, first anized back 2004 orr “to draw the attentn of policymakers, opn lears, social movements, the public and the media to the vlence and discrimatn experienced by LGBTI people ternatnally. So, nsirg the ternatnal foc of the day, I’ve put together a list of great books by LGBTQ wrers who were born  untri where is still actually illegal to be gay.

Jam was never out Jamai—he has scribed himself there as “very much the closet and very much the church, which is a very big closet Jamai”—and Jamai still has strong cultural bias agast homosexualy, even outsi of the laws.

” In the same terview, he explas that the genis of the book was one character, John-John K: “It was a gay hman gog through boyiend troubl, tryg to kill someone, ” Jam says. In his but novel, Rasa, a young gay translator livg an unnamed Middle Eastern untry, is ught wh his lover (by his grandmother, no ls), and then his bt iend is arrted, and we follow the fallout—as well as lve to Rasa’s memori—throughout the day.

THE GAY COOKBOOK HARDVER – APRIL 27, 2020

Often ced as the first openly gay novelist om Moroc, where same-sex sexual activy has been illegal sce 1962, Taïa’s tobgraphil novels have ma him, at least for some, “an inic figure his homeland of Moroc and throughout the Arab world, and a bean of hope a untry where homosexualy is illegal.

‘FIRE ISLAND’: MEET THE POWER TR BEHD THE SUMMER’S SWEETT, FUNNIT GAY ROM-COM

In 2013, Taïa ma his directorial but wh Salvatn Army, a film adaptatn of his novel by the same name, which, as Aida Alami wrote  The New York Tim, “gave the Arab world s first on-screen gay protagonist. In this stallment, narrated alternately by a young gay Mlim and a woman searchg for her closeted hband through a wild polil and cultural enzy, nuclear war looms and thgs only get more and more bizarre.

Dpe my ankns wh their rrponnt, The Tim of India managed to publish an entire natnwi centre-page terview wh me whout once mentng the gay angle—eher my life or my book.... A populatn so characterized by difference (whether relign, language, ste, class or sk lor), and so proudly ristant to any attempt at homogenizatn, n hardly turn around to earmark queers for special discrimatn.

Like the protagonist of his novel, Canadian novelist Shyam Selvadurai was born Sri Lanka, where homosexualy is illegal (though paradoxilly, so is anti-LGBTQ discrimatn).

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Abdi Nazemian was born Iran, where homosexual activy n be punished by whippg and, the se of serial offens, executn, and where even exprsn laws are dranian—however, sex reassignment surgery is legal and some s n be partially fund by the ernment. Nazemian only lived the untry for two years, movg around a lot, and now liv LA, where he’s a screenwrer (who thks “the pictn of gay men Hollywood is horrible”).

His but novel The Walk-In Closet, which won the Lambda Lerary Award for Debut Fictn 2015, is a edy about a woman who pretends to be her gay, Persian bt iend’s girliend—but how far will she go? Dpe beg gay, he soon starts datg Judy, whose bt iend Art is the only out and proud teen at their school, documentg the AIDS crisis through his photographs. Kobabe also shar eir sexual journey -- om eir aroal over gay male uplgs, eir (not always succsful) attempts at masturbatn, makg out and havg sex the first time at 25--as part of rearch for her gay shippg fanfictn--and ultimate ambivalence over future enunters.

SCHOOL BOARD TERMAT TEACHER OVER DOLLY PARTON, MILEY CYS 'RABOWLAND' SONG, FOLKS STILL GAY

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