Table of Contents

CONTENTS Preface Introduction Q & A: Notes on a Queer Asian America David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom Part One: Working Out 1. Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America Karin Aguilar-San Juan 2. The Heat Is On: Miss Saigon Coalition: Organizing Across Race and Sexuality Yoko Yoshikawa 3. Queer Asian American Immigrants: Opening Borders and Closets Ignatius Bau 4. Coalition Politics: (Re)turning the Century Vera Miao Part Two: Im/Proper Images 5. Creating, Curating, and Consuming Queer Asian American Cinema: An Interview with Marie K. Morohoshi Ju Hui Judy Han with Marie K. Morohoshi 6. "A Vaudeville Against Coconut Trees": Colonialism, Contradiction, and Coming Out in Michael Magnaye's White Christmas Victor Bascara 7. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn Richard Fung 8. Lisa's Closet Gaye Chan Part Three: Keeping Records 9. Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History Nayan Shah 10. history of disease Patti Duncan 11. Queer API Men in Los Angeles: A Roundtable on History and Political Organizing Introduced and edited by Eric C. Wat and Steven Shum 12. Toward a Queer Korean American Diasporic History Jeeyeun Lee Part Four: Closets/Margins 13. Litany Russell Leong 14. Trying fo' Do Anykine to Donna: Fragments of a Prose Work Donna Twuyuko Tanigawa 15. Transgender/Transsexual Roundtable Transcribed by Diep Khac Tran Edited by Diep Khac Tran, Bryan, and Rhode 16. Mahu: The Gender Imbalance Jennifer Tseng 17. Curry Queens and Other Spices Sandip Roy Part Five: Paternity 18. in his arms Joel Barraquiel Tan 19. The Strange Love of Frank Chin Daniel Y. Kim 20. The Unknowable and Sui Sin Far: The Epistemological Limits of "Oriental" Sexuality Min Song 21. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings You-Leng Leroy Lim 22. Heterosexuality in the Face of Whiteness: Divided Belief in M. Butterfly David L. Eng Part Six: Out Here and Over There 23. Monster Justin Chin 24. Coming Out into the Global System: Postmodern Patriarchies and Transnational Sexualities in The Wedding Banquet Mark Chiang 25. Incidents of Travel Ju Hui Judy Han 26. Transnational Sexualities: South Asian (Trans)nation(alism)s and Queer Diasporas Jasbir K. Puar Selected Bibliography: Anthologies, Fiction, and Nonfiction Compiled by Alice Y. Hom Resource Guide Compiled by Alice Y. Hom About the Contributors

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A spirited collection of essays, personal testimonies, fiction, and art on what it means to be queer in Asian-America now

About the Author

David L. Eng is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Alice Y. Hom is a doctoral candidate in history at Claremont Graduate University. CONTRIBUTORS: Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Victor Bascara, Ignatius Bau, Bryan, Gaye Chan, Mark Chiang, Justin Chin, Ken Chu, Dan Cuevas, Patti Duncan, Richard Fung, Dean Goishi, Ju Hui Judy Han, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Daniel Yo Kim, Jeffrey Deungkyu Kim, Karen Kimura, I. H. Kuniyuki, Erica Lee, JeeYeun Lee, Quentin Lee, Russell Leong, You-Leng Leroy Lim, Gil Mangaoang, Vera Miao, Marie K. Morohoshi, Hanh Thi Phan, Phong, Jasbir K. Puar, Rhode, Sandip Roy, Nayan Shah, Steven Shum, Min Song, joel barraquiel tan, Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa, Diep Khac Tran, Jennifer Tseng, Eric C. Wat, Yoko Yoshikawa, and the editors.

Reviews

"Astute, provocative, and exemplary, Q & A: Queer in Asian America sets a bold and serious agenda for engaging race, desire, culture, and globalization today." --Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian-American Cultural Politics "The writers, artists, and activists in Q & A take us to so many fascinating places where 'queer' and 'Asian American' cross paths, that we end up seeing all of American history from a new angle of vision. This brilliant, provocative collection makes clear the kind of intelligence we lose whenever it's assumed that history is heterosexual and that 'queer' equals 'white.'" --Alan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two "This is a spectacular set of essays that compel an important and creative shifting of perspective within every page. What is 'queer' and what is 'Asian American' turn out to be vitally defined by one another. Timely, brave, necessary, and incisive, this book should change every field that it touches." --Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "A breakthrough gathering of voices, astounding in their individual clarity and their collective diversity... Q & A presents a compelling challenge to those who cling to the notion that race and sexual orientation can be considered separate identities, rather than interwoven, interdependent aspects of one's singular social/political self." --Jeff Yang, publisher and founder of A. Magazine: Inside Asian America

"Astute, provocative, and exemplary, Q & A: Queer in Asian America sets a bold and serious agenda for engaging race, desire, culture, and globalization today." --Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian-American Cultural Politics "The writers, artists, and activists in Q & A take us to so many fascinating places where 'queer' and 'Asian American' cross paths, that we end up seeing all of American history from a new angle of vision. This brilliant, provocative collection makes clear the kind of intelligence we lose whenever it's assumed that history is heterosexual and that 'queer' equals 'white.'" --Alan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two "This is a spectacular set of essays that compel an important and creative shifting of perspective within every page. What is 'queer' and what is 'Asian American' turn out to be vitally defined by one another. Timely, brave, necessary, and incisive, this book should change every field that it touches." --Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley "A breakthrough gathering of voices, astounding in their individual clarity and their collective diversity... Q & A presents a compelling challenge to those who cling to the notion that race and sexual orientation can be considered separate identities, rather than interwoven, interdependent aspects of one's singular social/political self." --Jeff Yang, publisher and founder of A. Magazine: Inside Asian America