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Overview

This describe uses the foremost available data to provide a population estimate of LGBT Asian-Pacific Islander (API) individuals and API same-sex (SS) couples in the Together States, along with a general overview of their socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.

Geographic Distribution

LGBT API adults tend to dwell in areas where there are higher proportions of API individuals, as opposed to areas with higher proportions of the broader LGBT population. About 1/3 of API lgbtq+ couples live in California, Hawaii, and New York. The county-level maps utilize U.S. Census 2010 data measuring queer couples. The Census data describe both different-sex (DS) and same-sex (SS) couples by the race or ethnicity of the “householder,” who was Person 1 on the Census form. Person 1 is usually the person in whose name the dwelling is either owned or rented. Appendix A contains a detailed description of who is included in each section of this snapshot report, along with additional information on how to realize the map key.

Key Findings

• Overall, API individuals in same-sex
  Abstract

  This article examines shared assumptions behind the notion of “gay community,” contrasting these views with the experiences of queer men originating from Southeast Asia on the commercial queer scene in Melbourne, Australia. The narratives here reveal fragmented social networks involving various social groups, categories of people and an “In/Out” culture where informants were culturally marginal. Fitting into the scene culture involves processes of assimilation, and loss of connection even with supportive ethnic networks. While all men who look for a place to belong on the scene generally experience pressure to assimilate to a predominantly white middle-class queer culture, Southeast Asian men generally had more cultural distance to cover. Men who are not well assimilated deal with exclusion, invisibility and discrimination. Differences and discrimination within Southeast Asian based networks also contributed towards fragmented relations. This article raises questions about dominant same-sex attracted cultural forms, assumptions of gay solidarity, and how ethnic minority men build sense of and negotiate their sexual and social experiences.

  PM Lee said he wanted Singapore to remain conservative

  Singapore's parliament has voted against a proposal to decriminalise sex between men, despite receiving a petition signed by thousands of people.

  The plan was part of a wider reform of sex laws, many dating from the British colonial era half a century ago.

  The chamber passed a bill legalising oral and anal sex for the first time, but only between heterosexuals.

  Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the government did not consider gays to be a minority with minority rights.

  In a rare speech to parliament, he said Singapore was a conservative society, and he wanted to retain it so.

  Tuesday's vote means Singapore's anti-gay law 377A remains, although prosecutions are rare.

  Under the legislation, a man caught committing an act of "gross indecency" with another man could be jailed for up to two years.

  
  

  10 great gay films from east and south-east Asia

  Our list includes films from across east and south-east Asia, including works from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Male lover rights, and representation of homosexual men on screen, vary hugely from country to country, offering a rich diversity of fascinating movies. Films that would possess made the cut had they been more easily available include Stanley Kwan’s romantic tragedy Lan Yu (2001), the flawed but fascinating Filipino crime drama Macho Dancer (1988), and two Japanese ‘pink cinema’ titles – Gorgeous Mystery (1983) and I Fancy You, I Like You Very Much (1994).

  If east and south-east Asian films about gay men rarely make it to DVD, films about lesbians are rarer still. The groundbreaking Fish and Elephant (2001) is hard to find, Blue Gate Crossing (2002) is out of print, while All about Treasure (2010) and the award-winning Spider Lilies (2006) didn’t get a British DVD release. We hope that, with classic lesbian titles becoming increasingly successful, albeit at a shamefully slow rate, a future list on gay female east Asian films will appear in the future.

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