![]() ![]() People need space just to be free and be themselves.”ĪP Qazi was beaming with excitement as he prepared for L.A.’s first South Asian Pride Night in late June. “In a time when there is anti-Asian hate and it feels like the whole world is crumbling … what’s more revolutionary politically than dancing, having a good time and loving one another?” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean American researcher and artist. While working at a mobile HIV testing van in the city, she was sexually and verbally harassed, she said.Įvents like the K-Pop Night are “liberating,” said Shu Mai, who also hosts Send Noodz, a n Asian American/Pacific Islander drag party, with fellow queen Bibi Discoteca. She said she rarely goes to West Hollywood, except for QT Nightlife and other queer Asian events. Miss Shu Mai, a Taiwanese American drag queen who hosted the K-Pop Night, recalled seeing white actors in yellowface - makeup that made them look East Asian in L.A.’s drag scene. In 2019, then-West Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not inappropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles because “he’s a skinny Korean kid with pimples on his cheek.”Īsian American advocacy groups criticized Duran’s remark, with API Equality-LA pointing to the long history of discrimination against Asian men in gay communities such as West Hollywood, whose clubs “used to require three forms of photo identification from anyone they perceived as Asian.”ĭuran eventually resigned from his position as mayor, citing health reasons, after several other allegations of sexual harassment. ![]()
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