Is writing 'No Asians' on your Grindr profile racist, or just personal preference? The debate hit new heights earlier this week as one man announced his intention to sue the world's most popular gay hook-up app for perpetuating racial prejudice. CINEMQ speaks to Sinakhone Keodara about his case, and his rallying cry for other gay Asian men to join the fight. I'm not racist, but... It was the weekend, and Sinakhone Keodara was bored, horny or both. The 43 year old CEO kicked b

Richard Fung is a writer, educator and filmmaker perhaps best know for Looking For My Penis, his seminal paper on representations of gay Asian men in pornography. Fung's work is defined by its exploration of the outsider status of racial and sexual minorities, interrogating the prejudices that arise around the intersection of homophobia, colonialism and Orientalism in screen media and other modes of cultural discourse. Over his 40 years of activism and observation in the LGBT

我想说的是，我的性向是酷儿；而我的种族身份，也是酷儿的。 影人 Stuart Gaffney (斯特尔特∙加福尼) 访谈 影人Stuart Gaffney是一名酷儿。同时，他也是一个混血儿，拥有一半中国血统，一半英国和爱尔兰血统。对于他来说，能够找到完全符合自己身份的正面文化符号难上加难。他2002年的短片《Transgressions》（过界）探索了对于自我身份的发掘和实现。借用流行文化中的图像，例如《蝴蝶君》（1983）等经典影像内容的片段剪辑，这部短片着重于追溯他父母之间“过界”的跨种族爱情，以及他本人“过界”的同性恋情。通过这两种在发生之时都尚未合法的情愫，Stuart 追寻着自我身份认同，编织出一个属于混血LGBTQ人群的独特故事和文化符号。 在影像制作之外，Stuart Gaffney也是一位积极号召LGBTQ婚姻合法化的社会活动家。他是Marriage Equality USA（美国婚姻平权组织）的联合创始人之一，也是2008年里程碑式的，控诉加州同性婚姻禁令违宪提案的主要申诉人之一。他与他的先生John Lewis经常在世界范围内

From now on, I will say my sexuality is queer, and my race, too, is queer. An Interview with filmmaker Stuart Gaffney Stuart Gaffney is queer. He is also mixed race, half Chinese and half British and Irish. Where are the positive cultural icons for someone like him? His 2002 short film Transgressions addresses questions of identity and self-determination. Appropriating footage from popular culture, including scenes from M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg, 1993), the film meditate

Yu Jing is a film journalist and programmer for Shanghai Queer Film Festival. Returning from Cannes Film Festival, she shares her thoughts on being Asian, queer and just maybe a little flirtatious at the world’s most prestigious cinema event. Queer films are rarely screened in Chinese movie theaters, leaving cinephiles hungry for the queer movies that make waves abroad. Last year, when I got back from Cannes, everyone’s favorite question to ask me was my opinion on The Handma

Film offers a challenging but accessible catalyst for discussion on the internalised otherness of gay Asian men in Western countries, argues Peng Zhang. Raymond Yeung's Yellow Fever (1998) For gay Asian men, whoever you choose to date, there is a phrase relating to you. Rice queen, potato queen, sticky rice – terms which define identity in relation to white and Western society. Putting race and attraction together is inherently political. Alongside think pieces and academic s