Asian bottom gay
We’re here to help homosexual, bisexual and same sex attracted men from Asian cultural backgrounds take dominion of their health.
We provide information on relevant health issues, and we provide a range of specific and general services delivered by caring people who genuinely understand the health issues affecting Asian lgbtq+ men.
Our Work With Asian Gay Men
We’re here to help gay men from Asian cultural backgrounds grab control of their health by providing a range of programs, workshops, resources and events.
We’re committed to:
- Understanding and reducing the impact of HIV and STIs among Asian gay men in NSW
- Understanding and addressing health and wellbeing issues which are specific to Asian gay men in NSW
- Strengthening the community networks for Asian gay men in NSW by partnering with groups and organisations which support them
For further information, please contact: asia@acon.org.au | 02 9206 2080 | 0419 714 213
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Belonging and Becoming
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ConversAsians
ConversAsians is a peer-led discussion group based in Sydney. Our vision is to engage
Unbelonging: Anti-Asian racism in Australia’s gay community
Belonging, at its root, is a fantasy of a socio-cultural territory where differences do not impede on feeling joined with others. Some link belonging to our innate human desire for sentimental comfort grounded in feelings of recognition, connectedness and/or acceptance. It is often a social emotion: the feeling of affinity with a group, of creature part of something larger than ourselves and existence welcomed by others. Many of us first exposure this feeling in the family home and pursue to recreate it in ever widening circles from school to workplaces to neighbourhoods and communities.
If you are lucky, you mostly move through life feeling like you belong. While we all, at some points in time, perceive like a ‘fish out of water’, especially in novel cultural spaces, this experience of benign non-belonging is a temporary feeling and generally exceptional in one’s everyday life.
By contrast, if you are unlucky, other people accidentally or purposefully, sometimes even maliciously, ensure you do not feel ‘at home’. From overtly violent and bullying behaviour to more subtle workplace discrimination, ill-treatment in everyday life, a
“Is It Alright With You That I’m Asian?”
By Gene Lim
“Is it alright with you that I’m Asian?” The message popped up on my white friend’s Grindr notifications. It broke his heart to ponder of the experiences that would make someone second-guess themselves on such a fundamental level.
I just shrugged. “Most Asians realize that gay men greatly prefer white guys – even other Asians. We’re used to the rejection.”
Despite my mate’s protestations about how fucked that was, it’s true. While shocking at first, many of us simply resign ourselves to that proof and find a work-around. There are even figures to back it up – in 2019, Kirby Institute researchers found that Asian men (alongside Aboriginal men) were rated as the least attractive ethnic group among Gay and Bi Australian men.
As a researcher studying sexual racism, this interaction made me realise that many Asian men still haul the hurts inflicted by these experiences. How then, can we begin to heal from sexual racism?
Understanding And Recognising Sexual Racism
“No Asians” and “No Rice” are probably what we think of when sexual racism is mentioned. But these preferences reflect larger trends in a person’s upbrin
“Asian Bottoms to the Front”
Racial Fetishization in the Homosexual Community
Anyone who has ever used the gay dating/hookup app “Grindr” will at some point come across someone with racial preferences stated in their bio. If asked why this person prefers Black tops or Asian bottoms, their justification falls along the lines of “It’s just a preference.” Or they give a stereotype about what their preferred race is like in bed. Not only do these responses dismiss that their preferences are racist stereotypes, but they ignore how these ideas work to reduce races to a white fantasy and sustain white masculinity as excellent to all other races and genders. Because sexual preferences are framed as an uninfluenced preference, race-fetishes are enfolded into hegemonic sex-thinking as acceptable, but classifying racial preferences in sexual and romantic partnerships as a harmless taste denies its fetishizing dimension and its role in maintaining white supremacy.
In arrange to understand how lgbtq+ men online perpetuate racism through sex stereotyping, it’s important to understand the heteronormative hegemony that permeates gay communities’ ideologies. Heteronormativity’s status
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