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They discuss Cody's experience in the industry, his social media presence, body confidence issues, his relationship with his partner, and his future plans. Now I’m married and I still think, in moments, that this is all too good to be true.” He calls his life a “charmed” one, with a caveat: He feels he is tolerated by both the gay community and Americans at large from “the distance of a hyphen.”

A minority upon a minority, gay Asian-American men describe a lot of overlap in their identities: Both sides of that intersectional identity are affected by enclave living (in either ethnic neighborhoods or gayborhoods), presumption of crazy rich lifestyles despite extreme wealth disparity for both Asian and gay Americans, and a sheen of emasculation that was infamously caricatured in a racist national magazine spread from 2004 that asked of its readers, “Gay or Asian?”

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I reveal gay Asian intimacy. Chad discusses the challenges of balancing his personal and professional life, including navigating social media and family dynamics. To whatever extent Harvey Milk and Matthew Shepard are household names, they’re far ahead of Vincent Chin or Fred Korematsu.

"I spent a long time not wanting to be me, not worthy of attention or love or desire.

Sort of. He believes in promoting intimacy and authenticity in adult content creation and challenging stereotypes. Maybe my father was in the U.S. military in Korea. And that would be great, better than being Asian—to be mixed, to somehow have a claim to America, actual roots here.”

Like many Asian-American men, Miller was disappointed by gay bars and the bigotry he eventually found in those self-ascribed temples of acceptance.

They must hate you. “I’m Asian, but I would say I belong to the gay community. Perhaps the strangest part of Riel’s experience is that science says his social life should be more comfortable, or at least more accepting.

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A 2019 study—actually a pool of four studies—in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science determined that Asian-American men are seen as “more American” if they are gay.

“You wake up every day feeling fury, feeling helpless, that your life has never meant anything to this country. We can be the lead characters in our own lives,” he said.

"It has always been a strange time to be an Asian-American male or masc-identifying person, because you’ve never been given the agency to own your identity."

Park is also proudly Christian.

Riel knows it. That hit me. I did not feel attractive in any kind of way.

Portland is the whitest big city in America. Racist tropes are being destabilized, but the question of identity remains murky.

“White gay men look at me as a refugee,” said Kenrick Ross, 41, who is Indo-Guyanese and the executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance.

Some people like you to just drain their bank account." "I've really been giving it my all.

More or less empathetic. Highlights—like poet and novelist Ocean Vuong’s poignantly messy sex scenes in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, or the tender shower scene in last year’s Taiwanese gay romance Your Name Engraved Herein—are few and fleeting.