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Aging with pride
Once upon a time, before men could openly have male lovers or wear pink dresses on the streets and before women could embrace the terms lesbian and dyke with pride and strength, repression, discretion and secrecy were the bases of homosexual life and interaction.
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Remembering Gregory Peck
Most people will remember the late, great actor Gregory Peck for his role as Atticus Finch in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. But for my own part, I didn’t catch that performance and that film until later in life. I purposely avoided it.
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‘Paradise in a Jar’ is Jarring Butoh: Powdered dancers slice off their hot dogs
If I told you I saw naked men dancing, simulating masturbation and pretending to slice off their private parts, you might think this was an adult theater review.
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New and Notable Books
Bunker 13
By Aniruddha Bahal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A testosterone-driven adventure about a journalist with a military past who has a heyday tracking down drug smugglers, guerrillas, mobsters and nuclear missiles. -
Ethnic Swing Vote Key to Stopping Davis Recall
As the movement to recall Gov. Gray Davis steams ahead with surprising force, polls show him losing decisively unless he fires new life into one-time supporters.
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Why Don’t APAs Get Tested For HIV?
This Friday is National HIV Testing Day, but how many Asian Pacific Americans do you think are going to walk into their doctor’s office or an AIDS service organization and ask for an HIV test? My guess is not that many.
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Abercrombie Accused of Job Bias
Abercrombie & Fitch, the clothing retailer that promotes a “casual classic American lifestyle,” has been hit with an employment discrimination lawsuit accusing it of cultivating an overwhelmingly white sales force.
The lawsuit, filed June 16 by nine Hispanic and Asian Pacific American plaintiffs, alleges that Abercrombie discriminates against blacks, Hispanics and APAs with a corporate policy […] -
Sleepy ‘SaGa’
A grand brush has stroked across the canvas of Square Enix’s latest release, Unlimited SaGa, introducing “sketch motion,” a new, off-beat way of delivering two-dimensional graphics in a three-dimensional space. The eclectic style of Unlimited SaGa’s graphics is a visual treat, inducing an almost meditative gameplay with penciled lines and soft watercolors.
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The Importance of Pride
San Francisco’s Pride Week for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people is a great idea. I wish that every city would have a comparable citywide celebration of those who are ostracized by intolerant and bigoted people just for being who they are.
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KA Leader Ahn Dies from Cancer
Well-known neurologist, philanthropist and political activist, Dr. Suzanne Insook Ahn of Dallas, Texas has passed away. Memorial services are planned for her this Friday.
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APA Child Poverty on the Rise in NYC
Poverty among Asian Pacific American children in New York City has worsened over the past decade, according to newly released Census data. Coupled with the current economic slump and an estimated $3.8 billion citywide budget shortfall, APA families will be among the hardest hit when the city enacts cuts to education, child care, afterschool programs […]
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Dear "observer": You are absolutely right about my personal education history, insofar as I was lucky to be one of only three? Chinese-American students at Horace Mann Grade School in San Jose, way back in the mid-'20s, Half-"right" in the ensuing fact I attended Francisco Jr.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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I have a feeling that Christian and Frank Eng went to all-white schools and don't know what it's like for Asians to attend "diverse" schools, so I post a 2005 article: http://www.
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As a reader, I feel I have joined the conversation too late to make sense of this, since it's already at the level of polemic.
eric henderson on Arab Americans as Asian?
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"And I understand that those Asian-Americans who do uncritically embrace racist ideas about black people usually glean them from the dominant (i.
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Jammer: You are more than "right." Your experience is, likely, not all that different from ANY suffered at the hands of bullies.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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To experience the unique dancing style of Jabbawockeez is feeling their movement, seeing their vision, laughing, crying, shouting and knowing that there is still hope.
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Well my only viewing of Last Comic Standing was unfortunately seeing Esther Ku say jokes at the expense of Asian men that only a racist would love.
Jammer on Not-So-Funny Funny Asian
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Well, Christian, even though I acknowledge many of your arguments that I've read in your posts, racism is a two-way street.
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Dear Christian: For I find you "dear," as in "endearing.: And I question not one line in your riposte other than that NO "community," of any stripe, is ever "free" of its lowest common-denominators.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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Is it LAMEN or RAMEN? ANSWER; it should be spelled in English as LAMEN. see here an EMAIL from a veteran language man, a reporter/editor in NYC: http://www.
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