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T or F, Asian women are exotic.

How do you capitalize on your attributes to attract someone your are interested in?

What if the person is of a different “race” or cultural group?

Asian Girls Are Prettier: Gendered Presentations as Stigma Management among Gay Asian Men Chong-suk Han Temple University It is somewhat intertwined at times. With racism, you have to learn to be proud of who you are and with homophobia you have to learn to be proud of who you are again. Being a gay Asian male, it is a minority of a minority and you have to learn to be proud of yourself again.

Hypermasculinization also involves what some gay Asian men see as a failure of the male Asian body to live up to Western male appearance norms. To be considered more “masculine,” some gay Asian men try to “correct” these deficiencies. As one informant stated, I go to the gym all the time. I practically live there. When I first started working out, I thought that I would never be able to look like them (white men). But I think over time I developed what they mig

While a hypermasculine performance brought him some extra attention at a “rice bar,” a gay bar that specifically caters to Asian men and white men seeking Asian men, it is met with little success outside that specific venue

Being both gay and Asian present three challenges for gay Asian men: first, gay Asian men must learn to manage the stigma of race from the larger society. Second, they must manage the stigma of homosexuality from both the larger society and the Asian community. Third, gay Asian men must learn to manage the stigma of race, once more, in the gay community.

While white men have masculine underwear parties where guys take off their shirts and expose rippling stomach muscles, Asian gay men have “Miss Asia” beauty pageants with Asian men dressing in drag, badly miming the words of Whitney Houston (their lips don’t even match the words because they can’t even speak English properly). . . . With Asians, almost all of them do drag or walk like a faggot, are skinny

Most gay Asian men I spoke with understood that their stigmatization was tied to the perception that Asian men were overtly feminine and submissive. On gay Asian male stereotypes, one informant stated, Basically, the stereotype is that gay Asian men are submissive bottoms, smooth, skinny, very feminine. [Gay white men] think that we’re all eager to sleep with any white guy that comes along.

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Transgender Transgender: This term has many definitions. It is frequently used as an umbrella term to refer to all people who deviate from their assigned gender at birth or the binary gender system. This includes transsexuals, cross-dressers, genderqueers, drag kings, drag queens, two-spirit people, and others. Some transgender people feel they exist not within one of the two standard gender categories, but rather somewhere between, beyond or outside of those two genders.

Drag Queens

Drag Queens Problems Within the larger lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) communities drag queens are sometimes criticized for their participation in pride parades and other public events, believing that this projects a limited and harmful image of gay people and impedes a broader social acceptance. This attitude itself is criticized for limiting self-expression and encouraging the idea that there are "right" and "wrong" ways to be gay. In more recent years drag queens have been prominently featured at these same events. A common criticism of drag queens is that they promote harmful stereotypes of women, comparable to blackface portrayal of African-Americans by white performers that was popular in the early 20th century. Conversely, some feminists embrace drag as a skewering of traditional gender roles, defying the social norms of male and female looks and behaviour and showing the artificiality of femininity and masculinity.