Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 36, Numbers 3/41999. Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives Peter A. Jackson Gerard Sullivan Editors Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 36, Numbers 3/41999. First published 1999 by The Haworth Press, Inc. 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580 USA Published 2017 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1999 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Libl'ary of Congl'ess Cataloging-in-Publication Data Multicultural queer: Australian narratives / Peter A. Jackson, Gerard Sullivan, editors. p. cm. u ••• co-published simultaneously as Journal ofhomosexual ity, volume 36, numbers 3/4 1999." Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7890-0651-0 (alk. paper) I. Minority gays-Australia. 2. Homosexuality-Australia. I. Jackson, Peter A. II. Sullivan, Gerard. III. Journal of homosexuality. HQ76.3.A8M85 1998 306.76'6'0994-dc2l 98-51298 CIP ISBN 13: 978-1-56023-123-3 (pbk) For Roger, from whom I learned about many of the issues in this book. Gerard ABOUT THE EDITORS Peter A. Jackson, PhD, is a Research Fellow in Thai History in the Re­ search School of Pacific and Asian Studies at Australian National Uni­ versity in Canberra. Fluent in spoken and written Thai, Dr. Jackson has conducted extensive research on gay and lesbian communities in Bang­ kok and nearby provinces. Dr. Jackson was a founding member of the Australian Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force and helped devel­ op a Thai language curriculum in Australian high schools. His book Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1995) was the first major study of male homoeroticism in Thailand. His other books in­ clude Buddhism, Legitimation, and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism (1989), The Intrinsic Quality ofS kin (1994), and the forthcoming book Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Fe­ male Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (The Haworth Press, Inc.). Gerard Sullivan, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behav­ ioral Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia. His research in­ terests in gay and lesbian studies include civil rights, health issues, and the social construction of homosexuality in different cultural contexts. A board member of the Australian Centre for Lesbian and Gay Re­ search, Dr. Sullivan is also the co-editor of Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services (The Haworth Press, Inc., 1995) and the forthcoming book Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexllalilies in Contemporary Thailand (The Haworth Press, Inc.). Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives CONTENTS Acknowledgments xv Foreword xvii Tran Binh Dong About the Contributors XXl Introduction: Ethnic Minorities and the Lesbian and Gay Community 1 Gerard Sullivan Peter A. Jackson Using Chopsticks to Eat Steak 29 Kent Chuang "Asian" Men on the Scene: Challenges to "Gay Communities" 43 Damien Ridge Amos Hee Victor Minichiello A Social Psychological Perspective on HIY/AIDS and Gay or Homosexually Active Asian Men 69 Rasyid Sanitioso China Doll-The Experience of Being a Gay Chinese Australian 87 Tony Ayres The Cinematic Representation of Asian Homosexuality in The Wedding Banquet 99 Ling-Yen Chua <interface: reflections of an ethnic toygirl> 113 Audrey Yile Queerer than Queer: Reflections of a Kike Dyke 135 Annie Goldjlam Looking Out, Looking In: Anti-Semitism and Racism in Lesbian Communities 143 Hinde Ena Burstin A Love Letter from NADIA (Non-Anglo Dykes in Australia) 159 Rose Kizinska Sister Outsider, or "Just Another Thing I Am": Intersections of Cultural and Sexual Identities in Australia 169 Abby Duruz Diary Entries from the "Teachers' Professional Development Playground": Multiculturalism Meets Multisexualities in Australian Education 183 Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Unfixed in a Fixated World: Identity, Sexuality, Race and Culture 207 Baden Offord Leon Cantrell Index 221 Acknowledgments A former director of the Australian Centre for Lesbian and Gay Research at the University of Sydney, Robert Aldrich persuaded us to collaborate and organize a conference in 1995 on homosexuality and cultural differences, which led to the idea for this book. The project was supported in part by the Department of Behavioural Sciences and the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the AIDS branches of the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, and New South Wales Department of Health. Gary Simes, Stephen Murray and Robert Aldrich provided bibliographic support, and Garry Wo­ therspoon, Clive Faro, Lily Rahim and Sally Tapscott gave helpful comments on parts of the draft. Tony Hassett, Stephanie Cooke and Inthira Padmindra provided administrative support for the project. In addition, Laureen Asato and Sabi Inderkum, Laurence Leong, and the Komori family provided assis­ tance while Gerard was doing research for this book, as did staff at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California at Berkeley. Our thanks and appreciation to Kent Chuang and Ray Howard for the cover design, and to those photographed who include: Hinde Ena Burstin, Uma Kali Shakti, Annie Goldtlam, Russell Goldtlam, Kent Chuang, Pak Liu, and Nicholas Kokindis. We would also like to thank the many friends and informants who generously shared their experiences, feelings and ideas with us and who have shown us new worlds. The list is long and their generosity great. We thank them for their time, hospitality and support. Gerard Sullivan Peter A. Jackson xv