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Male Circumcision & Culture Clash: To Cut Or Not To Cut
Even before my partner and I started the process of having a child, there were discussions about whether circumcision made sense for any new born male baby. It’s a topic that’s widely debated still, and there’s more of a growing movement against the practice. It was certainly top of mind for us, before we found out we were going to have a baby girl, which probably saved us a lot of anguish over having to [...] Continue »
Top 5 Gay/Lesbian Asian Channels On YouTube
A variation of this piece was originally written for AsiansOnYouTube and has been reposted here with permission. By AsiansOnYouTube It was very difficult working on this list of Asian American Gay and Lesbian YouTube channels while at work, because so many of the YouTube search results were quasi-porn. Trying to find quality Lesbian channels was even harder; I had to shift through a ton of Japanese girl-on-girl action videos. Watch my findings, after the jump!
New San Francisco HIV Prevention Plan Excludes Asian Americans
With San Francisco’s HIV community at endemic levels rather than pandemic levels, San Francisco’s HIV director has re-allocated the community-based agencies it funds and has left APIs out of a HIV Prevention Plan which targets Caucasian, African American, and Latino gay men, transgender women, and intravenous drug users. The new plan will redirect funding from API outreach to the newly targeted groups. While the news is disconcerting – to say the least – an anonymous tipster [...] Continue »
No Look Pass Doc Takes A Look At Basketball & Coming Out
In No Look Pass, Emily Tay is an extraordinary young woman born to Burmese immigrants, raised in Los Angeles Chinatown, Harvard educated, starter for their women’s basketball team, and now a professional basketball player in Germany living with her female partner. But she faces a dilemma: coming out to her parents, and she is afraid of being rejected and disowned by them.
Get your Cho on: Margaret Cho’s campaign
She’s at it again. No, not Britney. Margaret Cho! The Drop Dead Diva star is launching a campaign promoting her album, Cho Dependent and donating 20% of the proceeds to Immediate Justice, a human rights charity. However, this campaign focuses on encouraging and empowering the liberation of young women and queer colored people.
Slant Book Review: Timothy Wang’s Debut Novel
Timothy Wang’s debut novel Slant is about a gay Chinese boy growing up in America. As I was reading along, I found myself constantly laughing and relating to almost every page. Wang tackles the issues that Asians and Asian Americans experience growing up. These issues are obvious and honest. We’ve all been there, the confusion of growing up different from what society mainly consist of, the self-loathe of our culture because we were watching shows [...] Continue »
VIRAL LIKE SARS: Sassy Chinese Male Cheerleader is Sassy
Dear Sassy Chinese Male Cheerleader, We here at 8Asians would like to salute you, male cheerleader from China’s Shandong University, for not only working it out during your recent video of a dance routine and having it appear on Gawker, but for also chest popping and doing the split in the mini-skirt better than the twelve girls around you. (Girl, don’t deny! You loved that shit.) But lest you think you are the first Asian [...] Continue »
PINK DOT-Singapore Supports the Freedom to Love
PINK DOT is an annual event in Singapore that allows the LGBT community to come together in open air and be proud of who they are. Think of a miniature gay pride event in pink but without all the craziness that occurs in local areas. This video makes me think of the organization PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian and Gay) who support the well-being of homosexuality, though instead of having a board meeting, [...] Continue »
George Takei Fights “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
In a recent Youtube video response to Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, famous actor and activist George Takei reaches out humorously to fight against this legislation. He says “By not talking about gay people, they can simply make us disappear.” When I saw the video thought it was a joke, then I realized how serious this is. What an ingenious way to fight against discrimination with humor.
Family Disoriented Man: Accepting Yourself in a Traditional Asian Household
I grew up in a household where all the boys sported either bowl cuts or mullets. Yes, I said it, my brother had a mullet. This was the default hairstyle: you either had to be a victim of a medium sized bowl or the victim of a very shaky barber. Growing up in a traditional Asian household is difficult, especially when you’re Asian American and your parents aren’t. Growing up being a gay Asian American [...] Continue »
Support “A Woman Named Canyon Sam” By Director Quentin Lee
There are so many great Asian Pacific Islander American stories out there that need to be told and the story of Canyon Sam is one of them. For those of you who don’t know, Canyon Sam is an accomplished performance artist, published author and passionate activist. Canyon’s book Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History received PEN America Center’s Open Book Award in 2010 and she is also one of the first Asian [...] Continue »
Finding & Understanding Asian Masculinity
There’s been a number of recent discussions and blog posts on Asian manliness and masculinity in the blogosphere. It’s a topic that’s been covered on 8Asians as well, and one of the main drivers of this discussion topic has been why certain women choose not to date Asian men (supposedly it’s an apparent lack of masculinity). So I thought I’d cover the topic of what it takes to become a masculine Asian male.
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