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What Did They Like Me For?
When I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine took me to a house party near downtown Minneapolis. I didn’t consider much of it at the time—being nineteen, I seized any opportunity to drink un-carded—but after we arrived, I forgot about the booze. The community was entirely male: about 90% Asian, most in their twenties, the remain white and significantly older. These were hawkish yet clumsy men who lumbered from Asian guy to Asian guy, leering, while the Asian men giggled, or flirted, or acted strangely grateful. Some of the Asian men danced. Some stood at the perimeter, assessing. All of them, it seemed, were vying for the attention of the older white men.
I got a beer, avoided eye contact, and when I returned to my comrade, a fellow queer Asian guy, I leaned in and said, “What is this?”
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“It’s an Asian group,” he said. “For Asians and their admirers.”
“And all the admirers are old white guys?”
He shrugged, drank. “I guess,” he said.
I felt, for a moment, unmoored. Though I’d told him I didn’t nurture where we went, just that I wanted to imbibe, I hadn’t expected to be thrust into such a coded environment, one with a obvious race
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ConversAsians
ConversAsians is a peer-led discussion group based in Sydney. Our vision is to engage an
On Saturday, Berlin police detained a queer person for wearing a white t-shirt with a pink triangle. That symbol was forced on gay men in the concentration camps—wouldn’t German cops remember?—and has since come to stand for remembrance and resistance. Yet under an increasingly authoritarian government, a pink triangle might be a banned marker of a terrorist organization.
People at an anticapitalist pride demonstration got punched, shoved, and arrested by heavily armed cops. In previous years, police seemed hesitant to create images of such unhinged hostility in a city that officially supports gay rights. But as democratic freedoms have been squashed in the name of suppressing Palestine solidarity, Berlin police have come to comprehend they can do whatever they want without fearing criticism from politicians, media, or judges.
This festival of queerphobic violence took place just a few kilometers down the road from the city’s main identity festival demonstration.
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Berlin’s right-wing mayor Kai Wegner went to Christopher Street Day (CSD), as the Pride demonstration here has been called since it was launched in 1979, to say that the rainbow flag “belongs in the center
Savage Love: Why Are White Gay Guys So Racist Toward Asian Men?
I’m taking a week off, so this week’s “Savage Love” is a reprint of a column that was originally published on Jan. 13, 2016. I hope everyone has a happy and safe Celebration. Please be careful out there. —Dan
As a queer man of color—I’m Asian—I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in Unused York City, Toronto or any city where pale gay men dominate. Same-sex attracted men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race, and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people. But it is unfair for a homosexual Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the alike pain of being homosexual in high school and the same fears when coming out, too.
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Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community? I’m 6 foot 1, 160 pounds, fit and very good-looking. What can I do? I might as well be a sexless monk.
Enraged Dude Details Infuriating Ex "Comrades, we must realize everything!" Erich Mielke's message was obvious. As director of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (commonly known as the Stasi) from 1957 to 1989, he oversaw the systematic surveillance of its citizens. Stasi informants could potentially be found anywhere, even among colleagues or friends. Their task was to discover people labeled as "harmful" to community. In the eyes of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) regime, this included anyone who criticized the system and cooperated with the so-called "class enemy." This reasoning legitimized the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, which the GDR called the "anti-fascist protection barrier" against the "imperialist" or "fascist" capitalists in the West. To the GDR, the enemy was everywhere. For the Stasi secret police, which was founded in 1950, anything could arouse suspicion: From a joke about the Chairman of the Declare Council, to listening to non-conformist tune, to receiving letters with stamps from the West, or asking for a visitor's permit
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