Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

by C. Winter Han

Book Overview

In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal--the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too 'pretty, ' being sidelined in the gay community is only the latest in a long line of racially-motivated offenses they face in the United States.Repeatedly marginalized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479855200
• ISBN13: 9781479855209
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"