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An Annotated Bibliography of Books, DVDs, and Internet Resources on GLBT Asian-Americans
Compiled by Walt “Cat” Walker.
Approved by the GLBTRT Resources Committee.
Last revised August 6, 2015.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
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General Nonfiction
II.
Memoirs
III.
Literary Anthologies
IV.
FictionV.
Poetry
VI.
Drama
VII.
Graphic Novels
VIII. Children & Teens
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DVDs
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Internet Resources
Index

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Introduction
There have been many people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent living in the United States
for a long time, with many distinct ethnic communities. These growing communities arestarting to receive more recognition in U.S. culture, including in its literature. Gay men,lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender persons make up another minority group that isincreasingly visible in our culture. The subject of this bibliography is the intersection of these
two minority groups, GLBT Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
This bibliography includes resources about gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenderpersons that have immigrated to the United States or Canada from Asia (including South Asiaand the Mideast), are Americans or Canadians descended from Asian or Pacific Islander
immigrants, or are Hawaiian (from the Pacific islands that are also a U.S. state). Although“Asian Americans” are often thought to be only people of East Asian descent who live in the
United States, I have expanded the scope of this resource to include people from the rest of
Asia and those who have immigrated to Canada as well. There have not been as many books
and DVDs available about Asian and Pacific Islander Americans as there have been about otherlarge minority groups such as African Americans and Latinos, but I did find many Internet
resources, including websites, online documents, and streaming videos. The books have all
been published in print, although most of them may also be found as e-books. Separate
sections contain memoirs, literary anthologies, novels, poetry, plays, graphic novels, andchildren’s and teen books. There is also an index of a few subtopics, such as East Asian, South
Asian, bisexual, and transgender resources. Each book and DVD has a link to the OCLCWorldCat record (when available) where you can see which libraries hold the item.
We plan to update this resource in the future. If you have any suggestions or updates, pleasecontact the GLBTRT Resources Committee.

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I.
GENERAL NONFICTION
1. Abdulhadi, Rabab, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber, editors. Arab & Arab American
Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging. Syracuse University Press, 2011. OCLC
Arab American and Arab feminists, including lesbians, challenge assumptions about gender,
sexuality, and their commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles.
2. Chu, Ken. Tong Zhi, Comrade : Out in Asia America. Museum of Chinese in the Americas,
2000? OCLC
Catalog of an art exhibition about being a gay Asian American.
3. Eng, David L. The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy.
Duke University Press, 2010. OCLC
Explores the historical emergence of “queer liberalism” and charts the multiple tensions
between it and the unpredictable and unsettled migrations of queer Asian bodies in the
global system.
4. Eng, David L. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. Duke University
Press, 2001. OCLC
Explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity andexamines images of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.
5. Eng, David L., and Alice Y. Hom, editors. Q & A: Queer in Asian America. Temple University
Press, 1998. OCLC
A collection of essays that document the emergence of queer Asian American identity andcommunities and their different perspectives. Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies/NonFiction.
6. Habib Samar, editor. Islam and Homosexuality. Praeger, 2010. (2 volumes) OCLC
These volumes contain essays exploring the lives of LGBTIQ persons in both Islamic nations
and Muslim communities in non-Islamic countries, and many Muslims originally come from
Asia (including the Mideast).
7. Han, C. Winter. Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America. NYU
Press, 2015. OCLC
Through ethnographic observation of queer Asian American communities and Asian
American drag shows, interviews with gay Asian American men, and a reading of current
media and popular culture depictions of Asian Americans, the author constructs a theory ofqueerness that is inclusive of the race and gender particularities of the gay Asian maleexperience in the United States.
8. Indiana, Gary. Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story. HarperPerennial, 1999.
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A gay author’s account of the 1997 killing spree of Andrew Cunanan, the gay Filipino
American who murdered designer Gianni Versace and four other men and then killed
himself as he was hunted by the police.
9. Jama, Afdhere. Queer Jihad: LGBT Muslims on Coming Out, Activism, and the Faith. Oracle
Releasing, 2014.
Show the struggles of individuals and organizations trying to reconcile their sexuality with
their faith, including LGBT Muslims in the West.
10. Kugle, Scott Siraj al-Haqq. Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender
Muslims. NYU Press, 2014. OCLC
Documents the rarely-heard voices of Muslims who live in secular, democratic countries likethe United States and who are gay, lesbian, or transgender. Stonewall Nonfiction Award
and Lambda Literary Finalist for LGBT Nonfiction.
11. Kumashiro, Kevin K., editor. Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific
American Activists. Harrington Park Press, 2004. OCLCFirst-person accounts of 17 queer Asian/Pacific Americans describe their experiences
growing up and how those experiences led them to become social activists and to speak out
against oppression.
12. Kumashiro, Kevin K., editor. Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer Studentsof Color and Anti-Oppressive Education. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. OCLC
Provides an understanding of the lives of queer students of color rooted in experience andinformed by theory, including essays on Asian American students.
13. Leong, Russell, editor. Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and LesbianExperience. Routledge, 1996. OCLC
Essays exploring how the political and personal identities of Asian American gays, lesbians,
and bisexuals emerge out of the intersections of history, race, and sexuality.
14. Lim, Eng-Beng. Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias. New
York University Press, 2014. OCLC
A study of Asian and Asian American performance shaped by the forces of orientalism that
focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy.
15. Manalansan, Martin F. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. Duke University
Press, 2003. OCLC
An ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by
Filipino immigrants in New York City that describes how they create alternative paths toqueer modernity and citizenship.
16. Masequesmay, Gina, and Sean Metzger, editors. Embodying Asian/American Sexualities.
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Uses LGBT and queer studies perspectives to rethink the heteronormative and sometimes
heterosexist discourses that have shaped Asian/American racial formation and uses the
body to serve as the primary interface between the individual and the social.
17. Nguyen, Tan Hoang. A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual
Representation. Duke University Press, 2014. OCLC
Shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual “bottom” overdetermine
and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture inways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity.
18. Ponce, Martin Joseph. Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading.
New York University Press, 2012. OCLC
Theorizes and enacts a model of queer diasporic reading that tracks the ways that Filipino
literature addresses multiple audiences in multiple ways mediated through gender,
sexuality, eroticism, and desire.
19. Quero, Hugo Cordóva, Joseph N. Goh, and Michael Sepidoza Campos, editors. Queering
Migrations Towards, from, and Beyond Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. OCLC
Explores the roles that religious identities, values, and worldviews play in the fortificationand critique of Asian queer migrant identities.
20. Rahman, Momin. Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan,
2014. OCLC
An interdisciplinary study of the issues surrounding homosexuality and Muslim cultures,
including their effects on GLBT Muslims living in Western countries, written by a gay Muslim
from Bangladesh, now living in Canada.
21. Sueyoshi, Amy. Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone
Noguchi. University of Hawaii Press, 2012. OCLC
A young Japanese writer traveled to the United States in the 1890s, was in a passionate
relationship with the American writer Charles Warren Stoddard while also engaged inrelationships with white women, and then returned to Japan and married a Japanese
woman.
22. Trikone. 1987- OCLC
Periodical about GLBT South Asians in the United States and abroad.
23. Vaid, Urvashi. Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Anchor
Press, 1996. OCLC
A lesbian Indian-American political activist and former head of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force (NGLTF) writes about the gay and lesbian community’s transformation into amainstream American presence and presents a manifesto of where it should go in the
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24. Wat, Eric C. The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. OCLC
The development of the gay Asian community in Los Angeles through socializing in bars andin organizations like Asian/Pacific Lesbians and Gays (A/PLG) is studied through the oral
histories of individual gay Asian Americans.
25. Yoshino, Kenji. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. Random House, 2006.
OCLC
A gay Japanese-American lawyer looks at his own experiences and argues that American
civil rights law should address the harms of coerced conformity in regards to both sexual
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II.
MEMOIRS
1. Al-Solaylee, Kamal. Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes. HarperCollins, 2013. OCLC
After growing up in Aden, Beirut, and Cairo with his family, Kamal became a gay journalist
and academic in Toronto, and now contrasts his life in Canada with that of his conservative
Muslim family in the Middle East.
2. Chin, Justin. Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, and Pranks. St. Martin’s Press, 1999. OCLC
An exploration of a gay Asian-American’s life and his sensibilities formed in San Francisco
and influenced by the American pop culture of the 1980s.
3. Hajratwala, Minal. Leaving India: My Family’s Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. OCLC
The author tells about her life and the lives of several generations of her family that
immigrated from India to many other places. Lambda Literary Award for BisexualNonfiction.
4. Matzner, Andrew. O Au No Keia: Voices from Hawaii’s Mahu and Transgender Communities.
Xlibris, 2001. OCLC
A collection of narratives by male-to-female transgender and mahu people who live on
Oahu and are interviewed by the author.
5. Nguyen, Hao Van, and Barbara Grether. True Story: Vietnam to America. AuthorHouse,
2005. OCLC
The autobiography of a child of traditional Vietnamese parents, who immigrated from
Vietnam to the United States and came out as a gay man.
6. Takei, George. Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Internet Strikes Back. Oh Myyy, 2013. OCLCThis sequel to Oh Myyy!: There Goes the Internet discusses both the humorous and darksides of the Internet.
7. Takei, George. Oh Myyy!: There Goes the Internet. Oh Myyy, 2013. OCLC
The former Star Trek actor recounts his recent successes on social media platforms like
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
8. Yuan, Christopher, and Angela Yuan. Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, aBroken Mother’s Search for Hope. WaterBrook Press, 2011. OCLC
A son of Chinese immigrants comes out as a gay man, goes to prison for drug dealing, andthen eventually converts to Christianity, leaves his gay lifestyle, and now his mother and hetell their story at Christian conferences.

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III.
LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES
1. Aoki, Ryka. Seasonal Velocities: Poems, Stories, and Essays. Trans-Genre Press, 2012. OCLCA Japanese American transgender woman writes about her life and other transgender lives.
Lambda Literary Finalist for Transgender Fiction.
2. Bao, Quang, and Hanya Yanagihara, editors. Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific
America. Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2000. OCLC
An anthology of writings by gay and lesbian Asian Pacific Americans. Lambda Literary
Finalist for Anthologies/Fiction.
3. Chin, Justin. Bite Hard. Manic D Press, 1997. OCLC
A collection of poetry, fiction, and performance pieces centered on the experience of beinga gay Asian American, including a series of bad ex-boyfriends (all named Michael) and being
pursued by “rice queens”. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Poetry and Small Press.
4. Lim-Hing, Sharon, editor. The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and PacificIslander Lesbian and Bisexual Women. Sister Vision Press, 1994. OCLC
Poetry, personal essays, and academic analyses about API lesbians and bisexual women.
Lambda Literary Finalist for Anthologies/Fiction.
5. Shervington, G.L., editor. A Fire is Burning, It is in Me: The Life and Writings of Michiyo
Fukaya. New Victoria Publishers, 1996. OCLC
A biography about and the collected poetry of a Japanese-American lesbian poet andactivist who was also a poor single mother and an abuse survivor.

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IV.
FICTION
1. Alameddine, Rabih. Koolaids. Grove Press, 2015. (Originally published in 1999) OCLC
Shows the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese Civil War in Beirut on a circle offriends and family during the eighties and nineties, including a gay Lebanese artist living in
San Francisco. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Fiction.
2. Alumit, Noel. Letters to Montgomery Clift: A Novel. Alyson Books, 2003. (Originallypublished in 2002) OCLC
A coming-of-age story of a Filipino boy, who enlists the spirit of 1950s screen idolMontgomery Clift to help him find his mother who is imprisoned in the Philippines under
the Marcos regime. Stonewall Literature Award, Violet Quill Award, and Lambda Literary
Finalist for Gay Men’s Fiction.
3. Alumit, Noel. Talking to the Moon: A Novel. Carroll & Graf, 2007. OCLC
The racially-motivated shooting of a Filipino American postman disturbs the lives of his
family, including his gay son and his son’s Taiwanese boyfriend.
4. Barnes, David-Matthew. Swimming to Chicago. Bold Strokes, 2010. OCLC
An Armenian-American teenager living in a small town in the South and struggling since hismother’s suicide, falls in love with another teenage boy.
5. Chan, Jeffery Paul. Eat Everything Before You Die: A Chinaman in the Counterculture.
University of Washington Press, 2004. OCLC
Two Chinese-American brothers, one of them a gay TV chef, grow up amidst conflicting
immigrant and counterculture values.
6. Chee, Alexander. Edinburgh. Picador USA, 2002. OCLC
A Korean American boy soprano in Maine is abused by his choir director and later feels guiltthat he could not protect his friends from also being abused.
7. Chin, Justin. 98 Wounds. Manic D Press, 2011. OCLC
Through intertwined poetic short stories, a Chinese American originally from Malaysia
dissects the dualities present in the moments that matter. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay
Debut Fiction.
8. Dhalla, Ghalib Shiraz. The Two Krishnas: A Novel. Magnus Books, 2011. OCLCAn Indian wife and mother living in Los Angeles feels betrayed when her Hindu banker
husband falls in love with a young Muslim man. Lambda Literary Finalist for Bisexual
Fiction.
9. Fu, Kim. For Today I Am a Boy: A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. OCLC
A son of Chinese immigrants grows up identifying as a girl. Lambda Literary Finalist forTransgender Fiction.

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10. Hamilton, Ian. The Water Rat of Wanchai: An Ava Lee Novel. Picador, 2014. OCLC
A lesbian Chinese Canadian forensics accountant who is also a martial-arts expert tracks
down some missing money in this prequel to several other Ava Lee novels.
11. Hamilton, Ian. The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: An Ava Lee Novel. Picador, 2013. OCLC
A lesbian Chinese-Canadian forensics accountant crosses the globe as she tracks a series ofart forgeries for a powerful Hong Kong businessman.
12. Hasu, Sarah Toshiko. Megume and the Trees. Megami Press, 2010. OCLC
A young teenage Japanese American girl tries to sort out the difference between her own
mind and reality while she tries to navigate a forest. Lambda Literary Award Finalist for
Lesbian Debut Fiction.
13. Kwa, Lydia. This Place Called Absence: A Novel. Kensington Press, 2002. (Originallypublished in 2000) OCLCAs a Chinese-Canadian psychologist grieves over the death of her father and the recent lossof her girlfriend, she researches the sex trade in Singapore in the early 20th century anddiscovers the writings of two Chinese prostitutes who fell in love back then. Lambda
Literary Finalist for Lesbian Fiction.
14. Lee, Quentin. Dress Like a Boy. Writers Club Press, 2000. OCLC
A gay student at UC Berkeley from Hong Kong has complicated relationships with a bisexual
boyfriend and a closeted cousin.
15. Leung, Brian. World Famous Love Acts: Stories. Sarabande Books, 2004. OCLC
The son of a Chinese immigrant writes short stories that include gay and straight charactersand various relationships. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Debut Fiction.
16. Linmark, R. Zamora. Leche. Coffee House Press, 2011. OCLC
A gay Filipino immigrant returns to the Philippines after living in Hawaii for 13 years andencounters heat, politics, and eccentric characters there.
17. Mehta, Rahul. Quarantine: Stories. HarperPerennial, 2011. OCLC
Short stories featuring openly gay Indian-American men who struggle to maintainrelationships with their families and cultural traditions. Lambda Literary Award for Gay
Debut Fiction.
18. Nazemian, Abdi. The Walk-In Closet. Curtis Brown, 2014. OCLC
The closeted younger son of a wealthy Iranian immigrant family living in Los Angeles
pretends he is in a relationship with his female best friend while they both hook up withother men online. Lambda Literary Finalist for LGBT Debut.
19. Ong, Han. The Disinherited: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. OCLC

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A Filipino American returns home to Manila, where he inherits his father’s fortune but
decides to give it away, alarming his relatives when he wants to give some of it to his lateuncle’s male prostitute friend. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Fiction.
20. Plakcy, Neil. Mahu Fire. MLR Press, 2011. (Originally published in 2008) OCLC
Openly gay Hawaiian homicide detective Kimo Kanapa’aka investigates a bombing at a gay
marriage charity event as fires are raging on Oahu. Both Kimo and his fireman boyfriend
Mike Riccardi are part Asian American, and this is the 3rd volume of a series. Lambda
Literary Finalist for Gay Mystery.
21. Plakcy, Neil. Mahu Surfer. MLR Press, 2011. (Originally published in 2007) OCLC
Gay Honolulu police detective Kimo Kanapa’aka returns to his surfing past as he investigatesmurders among surfers on Oahu’s North Shore. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Mystery.
22. Quan, Andy. Calendar Boy. New Star Books, 2001. OCLCA Chinese-Canadian author writes short stories about immigrants to Canada, many of themtrying to navigate the urban gay male culture there. Lambda Literary Finalist for Small
Press.
23. Ramos, Ricardo. Searching for the Key: A Novel. Writers Club Press, 2002. OCLCA Japanese American wife manipulates her husband into bed with a gay Filipino co-worker.
24. Raymond, T.M. Fear the Living: A No Sin Mystery. CreateSpace Independent Publishing,
2014.
A gay young Chinese immigrant helps a rich white playboy investigate murders during theDepression.
25. Rehman, Bushra. Corona: A Novel. Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013. OCLCA Pakistani woman from the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York travels aroundthe country, has comic misadventures, and falls in love with both men and women. Lambda
Literary Finalist for Bisexual Fiction.
26. Revoyr, Nina. The Necessary Hunger: A Novel. St. Martin’s Press, 1998. OCLC
Two high school basketball-playing girls, one a shy Japanese American and the other anaggressive African American, become rivals, lovers, and then step-sisters.
27. Roberts, Lacey. Murder: Hawaiian Style. CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2015.
Two Hawaiian police officers investigate the murder of a young girl while they engage in an
affair with each other.
28. Rodriguez, Nice. Throw It to the River. Three O’Clock Press, 1993. OCLC
A lesbian Filipina journalist immigrated to Canada and wrote this collection of humorousand erotic short stories.

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29. Satyal, Rakesh. Blue Boy. Kensington Books, 2009. OCLC
A twelve-year-old Indian-American boy growing up gay in Cincinnati thinks he’s thereincarnation of Krishnaji, a blue-skinned Hindu deity. Lambda Literary Award for Gay
Debut Fiction.
30. Shraya, Vivek. She of the Mountains. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014. OCLC
A Canadian author of Indian descent has created an illustrated novel about a young man
exploring his gender and sexual identities along with a reimagining of Hindu mythology.
Lambda Literary Finalist for Bisexual Fiction.
31. Tan, Joel Barraquiel, editor. Best Gay Asian Erotica. Cleis Press, 2004. OCLC
A collection of erotic short stories with queer Asian men as the focus of desire.
32. Tan, Joel, editor. Queer PAPI Porn: Gay Asian Erotica. Cleis Press, 1998. OCLC
An anthology of contemporary porn written by men of Asian and Pacific Island (PAPI)
descent that challenges the stereotypical depictions of Asian men as feminine. Lambda
Literary Finalist for Anthologies/Fiction.
33. Wang, Timothy. Slant: A Novel. Tincture/Lethe Press, 2011. OCLCAn Asian college student comes out and then tries to transform himself into looking andacting in a way that he thinks will be more desirable.
34. Wong, Timothy. Cultural Revolution: Stories. Persea Books, 1994. OCLC
A collection of short stories about a Chinese immigrant family, including a gay teenager onan obligatory trip back to China. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Fiction.

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V.
POETRY
1. Beyer, Tamika. We Come Elemental. Alice James Books, 2013. OCLC
A collection of poetry by a Japanese American lesbian author that considers the meaning
and implications of nature and “natural order”. Lambda Literary Finalist for Lesbian Poetry.
2. Chin, Justin. Gutted. Manic D Press, 2006. OCLCA Chinese American gay poet uses the Japanese poetic form of zuihitsu to reflect on grief,
loss, and illness. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Poetry.
3. Chin, Justin. Harmless Medicine. Manic D Press, 2001. OCLC
A collection of poetry about life in the gay generation after the first wave of the AIDS
epidemic by an Asian American poet. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Poetry.
4. Cotter, Craig. Chopstix Numbers. Ahsahta Press, 2000. OCLC
Poems about a young gay white man who develops a fascination for Asian men and hangs
out at an Asian gay disco club.
5. Liu, Timothy. Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse: Poems. Talisman House,
2009. OCLC
Known for a harsh blend of gay eroticism and visionary fervor, Liu creates several
autobiographical poems, some about an apparently fruitless search for a lover who
disappeared in Greece.
6. Liu, Timothy. Burnt Offerings. Copper Canyon Press, 1995. OCLC
A collection of erotic poems by a gay Chinese American in California that explore theinterlocking forces of sexuality and spirituality. Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Gay
Men’s Poetry.
7. Liu, Timothy. Don’t Go Back to Sleep. Saturnalia, 2014. OCLC
The poet writes about his Chinese family’s traumas, including his mother’s mental illness,
his father’s religious fundamentalism, and his obsessive search for love. Lambda Literary
Finalist for Gay Poetry.
8. Liu, Timothy. For Dust Thou Art: Poems. Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. OCLC
A collection of grim poems about erotic pleasure, erotic danger, and traumatic personal
stories by a gay Chinese American poet. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Poetry.
9. Liu, Timothy. Hard Evidence: Poems. Talisman House, 2001. OCLC
A gay Chinese American writes experimental poems about death, religion, pop culture, andsex. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Men’s Poetry.
10. Liu, Timothy. Of Thee I Sing: Poems. University of Georgia Press, 2004. OCLC
Intense devotion to gay male desire collides with painful self-scrutiny, political protest andsnapshots of far-flung America in poems that dance between the spiritual and the material.

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11. Liu, Timothy. Polytheogamy. Saturnalia, 2009. OCLC
A collaboration between gay poet Timothy Liu and painter Greg Drasler exploring themes ofsexuality, marriage, monogamy, and fidelity.
12. Liu, Timothy. Say Goodnight: Poems. Copper Canyon Press, 1998. OCLC
A collection of poems focusing on the discovery of the sacred in earthly things, especiallythrough explicit gay sexuality. Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Gay Men’s Poetry.
13. Liu, Timothy. Vox Angelica: Poems. Alice James Books, 1992. OCLCA Chinese American gay poet who grew up Mormon creates a collection of melancholy
poems full of spiritual longing. Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award.
14. Nguyen, Hieu M. This Way to the Sugar: Poems. Write Bloody Publishing, 2014. OCLC
A collection of poems by a Vietnamese American from Minnesota informed by hisexperiences with race, sexuality, and homophobia. Lambda Literary Finalist for Gay Poetry.
15. Piepzna-Samarainha, Leah Lakshmi. Love Cake: Poems. TSAR Publications, 2011. OCLC
A performance artist originally from Sri Lanka writes poems that explore how queer peopleof color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Lambda Literary Award for
Lesbian Poetry.

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VI.
DRAMA
Pamatmat, A. Rey. Thunder Above, Deeps Below. Samuel French, 2012. OCLC
Three homeless friends, including a Filipina transsexual, struggle to scrounge up enoughmoney to get to San Francisco before winter. Lambda Literary Finalist for LGBT Drama.

VII.
GRAPHIC NOVELS
1. Lim, Elisha. 100 Crushes. Koyama Press, 2014. OCLC
A collection of 5 years of queer comics in the form of memoirs, interviews, and gossip by aToronto-based Asian artist who uses the gender neutral pronoun “they”. Lambda Literary
Finalist for LGBT Graphic Novel.
2. Sumida, Nick. Snackies. Youth in Decline, 2014. OCLC
A collection of mini-comics by an Asian American that includes comics about Internet dating
as a young gay man in New York. Lambda Literary Finalist for LGBT Graphic Novel.

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VIII. CHILDREN & TEENS
1. Farizan, Sara. Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel: A Novel. Algonquin Young Readers,2014. OCLC
An Iranian American teenage girl becomes bolder as she deals with her growing crush on abeautiful new classmate, and she learns more about her other classmates’ secret lives.
2. Kobayashi, Tamai. Prairie Ostrich. Goose Lane Editions, 2014. OCLC
An eight-year-old Japanese girl living in Alberta is devastated when her brother dies, but her
older lesbian sister helps her learn to cope with it.
3. Shraya, Vivek. God Loves Hair. 2nd ed. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2014. OCLC
A queer coming-of-age story about a Hindu boy living in Canada who is discovering anddeveloping his gender identity. Lambda Literary Finalist for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult.
4. Yee, Paul. Money Boy. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2011. OCLCA Chinese immigrant teenager is kicked out of his family home for cruising gay websites andbecomes homeless on the streets of Toronto, Canada. Stonewall Young Adult Literature
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IX.
DVDs
1. Act of Faith. Daniel Bree, director. Frameline, 2002. OCLCIn this very brief film, three Muslim Americans (two of them gay) discuss the Koran’sprohibition on homosexuality and whether they can reconcile a gay sexual identity with aMuslim religious identity.
2. Coming Out, Coming Home: Asian and Pacific Islander Family Stories: A Work in Progress.
Asian-Pacific Islander Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, A/PI-PFLAG Family Project ;Hima B., director. There is No Name for This. Ming-Yen S. Ma and Cianna Pamintuan
Stewart, director/producers. Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, 2005. OCLC
Two documentary films that contain interviews with GLBT Asian Americans and PacificIslander Americans and their families, especially concerning coming out to their families.
3. Family Blessings. API Equality, API Family Pride, APIQWTC. Queer Women of Color Media
Arts Project, 2012. OCLC
Short documentary film containing interviews with Asian American and Pacific Islander
lesbian couples in the Bay Area who are raising children.
4. Floored by Love. Holiday Pictures, Reel Fang Pictures, and CHUM Television ; Desiree Lim,
director ; Shan Tam and Desiree Lim, producers ; Karen X. Tulchinsky and Desiree Lim,
writers. Wolfe Video, 2006. OCLC
Comedy film about both a lesbian Chinese-Japanese couple and a gay teenager in a blended
African American/Jewish family in Vancouver, Canada.
5. Fruit Fly. Center for Asian American Media ; Ersatzfilm ; H.P. Mendoza, director/writer. TLA
Releasing, 2010. OCLC
A young Asian American performance artist moves to San Francisco and becomes friends
with several gay men while she searches for her career and her birth mother.
6. I’m the One That I Want. Cho Taussig Productions ; Fox Lorber CentreStage ; Lionel
Coleman, director ; Margaret Cho, writer ; Lorene Machado, producer. Winstar TV & Video,
2001. OCLC
Korean American Margaret Cho performs stand-up comedy in a live concert and includes
LGBT topics.
7. In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church. Institute for
Leadership Development and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion, Pacific
School of Religion ; Lina Hoshino, director ; Deborah Lee, producer. PANA Institute, 2007.
OCLC
A short documentary film about Asian American Christian gays and lesbians, their pastors,
and their parents.
8. Kuma Hina: The True Meaning of Aloha. Qwaves ; Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, directors.
2015.

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INDEX
Arts:
I.2, 7, 14
II.6, 7
IX.5, 10
X.102, 103, 104
Award-Winning:
I.5, 10, 23
II.3
III.1, 2, 3, 4
IV.1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 29, 32, 34
V.1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15
VI
Bisexual:
II.3
IV.8, 14, 23, 25, 30
IX.6
X.108, 109
East Asian:I.2, 21, 25
II.2, 5, 6, 7, 8
III.1, 3, 5
IV.5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 24, 26, 33, 34
V.1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13
VIII.2, 4
IX.4, 6, 9, 10
X.3, 6, 20, 24, 26, 41, 42, 54, 65, 75, 86, 92, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 123, 124
HIV/AIDS:
IV.1
X.14, 15, 16, 43, 56, 94, 112
Middle Eastern:
I.1, 6, 9, 10
II.1
IV.1, 4, 18
VIII.1
IX.1
X.1, 25, 35, 37, 47, 52, 53, 55, 57, 90, 94, 97, 112

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Pacific Islander:
I.8, 15, 18
II.4
IV.2, 16, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28
VI
IX.8
X.13, 30, 31, 50, 51, 59, 60, 64, 67, 68, 83, 98, 100, 118, 122South Asian:I.20, 22, 23
II.3
IV.8, 17, 25, 29, 30
V.15
VIII.3
X.82, 99
Southeast Asian:
V.14
X.27, 29, 62, 63, 81, 111, 117
Transgender:
II.4
III.1
IV.9, 30
VI
VII.1
VIII.3
IX.8
X.3, 51, 71, 82, 83, 86, 87, 98, 122, 123