Calling on Queer Asians
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and The Americas, May 2023, v. 9, no. 1 - 2, pp. 101 - 120
Leiden: Brill, 2023
ISSN 2352-3077 (print) 2352-3085 (online)
"This article considers Richard Fung's Orientations (1984) as a work of early pan-Asian community organization and self-recognition for LGBTQ+ Asian North Americans. Located between the founding of the community as a part of the legacy of Third World Liberation Front and AIDS activism starting in the mid-1980s, the video was made at a key juncture when visibility and self-affirmation were the main objectives for Asian North American queer communities. The autoethnographic documentary, which has received less scholarly attention than Fung's video works addressing Asian diasporic sexualities and postcolonial subjectivity, marks an important turning point for the historiography of Asian LGBTQ+ groups in North America and for the understanding of Fung's oeuvre over the past four decades" (abstract taken from the journal).
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Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians – Richard Fung
Lesbian Mothers – Norma Bahia Pontes
Lesbian Mothers – Rita Moreira
If She Grows Up Gay – Karen Sloe Goodman
Tongues Untied – Maron Riggs
Looking for Langston – Isaac Julien
Khush – Pratibha Parmar
Chinese Characters – Richard Fung
Looking for my Penis – Richard Fung
Bright Eyes – Stuart Marshall
Re:Orientations – Richard Fung
Paris is Burning – Jennie Livingston