Sexy Japanese Safer Sex Video parodies “Little Drummer Boy”

Little Taiko Boy combines Western holiday traditions, Shinto mythology and Japanese gay culture to advocate a very different way of wrapping gifts for a loved one.

Little Taiko Boy’s soundtrack is a safer-sex parody of the American Christmas carol “The Little Drummer Boy” interspersed with the slow rumble of a traditional Japanese taiko drum that sounds like a massive throbbing heart beat. Against this backdrop, several men meet in Tokyo’s bathhouses, love hotels and cruising spots for intimate encounters, watched over by a glamorous drag version of Amaterasu Omikami, the Shinto goddess of the Sun played by Japanese activist and artist MADAME BONJOUR JOHNJ. Like a queer Santa Claus, the goddess leaves each couple a condom in a bejeweled wrapper as a gift and blessing for the night.

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My Mini Story: Gay 2nd Generation Cambodian American

Suny Um shares his story of struggle to survive and find acceptance as a gay, second generation*, Cambodian American.

[*Note: In Asian American discourse, first generation is the generation who leaves the home country, 1.5 generation are those who were born abroad but came to the United States at a very young age, and second generation are those who were born in the States to parents born abroad.]

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We have previously posted images from Japanese photographer Tamotsu Yato here and here. And here is another lovely image from OTOKO: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male, published 1972.

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What’s With Closeted Gay Men and Asian Women? - Michael Musto

We wish we had a good explanation for this phenomenon. Similarly, we have seen a LOT of newbie homos go after gaysian men—something having to do with a “pretty” factor, which to us speaks of the cultural feminization/emasculation of gay Asian men.

Oh the unabashed shamelessness of youth! This little gaysian queen could use a little brushing up on his lip synching skills but we love how he tears it up at the end! BETTA DO IT! And maybe we’ll see him on a RuPaul’s Drag Race in the near future!

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Otoko: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male (1972) by Tamotsu Yato

We are having a Tuesday celebration of gaysian men here at daniel extra because…well, just because! We just kicked off of the love fest by spreading the word on Ken Takeuchi’s documentary Queer&Asian, which needs your support. All day, we’ll be posting on Gaysian America. WORD!

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Queer&Asian - a documentary on LGBTQ Asians in New York City

Friend of daniel extra, independent filmmaker Ken Takeuchi has been working on his feature length documentary since 2004, capturing the lives LGBTQ Asian in New York City for Queer&Asian. In his own words:

Having been volunteering for Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) since 2004, I have experienced first hand the layers of challenges that intersect race and sexuality in our community.  Although the mainstream LGBT community has been striving for the same-sex marriage in recent years, it has negative consequences for many undocumented immigrants in our community.  There is also a severe lack of queer Asian role models in the media, and it continues to make queer Asians internalize their homophobia and racism against themselves.  It is also a fact that the LGBT South Asians face even tougher challenges than the East Asian counterpart.

By documenting our real voices, and presenting these issues in a way that is not only empowering, but also entertaining, I hope this film will break the model-minority myths, and celebrate the diversity of our community to show that it’s beautiful to be queer and Asian!

Now to finish his film, his projected has been accepted at Kickstarter.com to raise $15,000 by June 30th, 2010 to complete the film and to cover post-production costs, otherwise he will not receive any funding.

Check out the work-in-progress trailer above.

You can pledge as little as $1. For more on the film, and to pledge, click on the link below:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/queerandasian/queerandasian-a-documentary-film-about-the-lives-o

Please help spread the word on the project and thanks for your support!

Everything you didn’t want to know about queer blog daniel extra’s founder, Daniel WK Lee, may now be discovered in this new place where he’ll be parking his crazy! Expect GPOYW, expect more rants, pictures of food, clothing purchases, and more shirtless pictures of himself, expect more shameless self-promotion, just expect more beyond the ‘extra!’ Enjoy!

From 50 to 1,500: Korea Queer Culture Festival turns 10

Margaret Cho once joked about how her mother would say there were gay people everywhere in the world - except for Korea. Well, it’s been at least 10 years that South Koreans have been celebrated Queer Korean culture on the streets of Seoul. Fridae.com’s Matt Kelley reports on the 10th anniversary of the Korea Queer Culture Festival this past weekend, showing how the vibrant community flourishes in conservative South Korea.

On Saturday, an estimated 1,500 people marched along the Cheonggye Stream in downtown Seoul. The main event of the 10th annual Korea Queer Culture Festival (KQCF) marked South Korea’s largest-ever celebration of homosexuality. The procession was led by a troupe of pungmul folk musicians and three trucks outfitted with rainbow flags, dance platforms and speakers playing Korean pop. Locals wearing “God made Queer” buttons marched with foreign English teachers and teen boys donning mouse ears and pleated skirts.

The 15-day event kicked off on May 30 with a photo exhibition and an event organised by the queer youth group, Rateen. From June 3-7, the Seoul LGBT Film Festival (SeLFF) screened 29 feature films, documentaries and short films at the Seoul Art Cinema. Following Saturday’s parade, an after party at Club Pulse in Itaewon lasted well into Sunday morning.

Tongzhi (同志)
n. Homosexual. Literally meaning ‘comrade,’ tongzhi was a term bandied about heavily during the Cultural Revolution. Today it’s been appropriated by the gay community to refer to same-sex comrades in the bedroom.

Lala (拉拉)
n. Lesbian. A phonetic adaptation of the English term.

Niang (娘)
adj. Sissy or effeminate. e.g., “He’s cute, but he’s gone a bit heavy on the eyeliner. A bit ‘niang’ for my taste.”

Chitudoude (吃土豆的)
adj. Literally meaning ‘eats potatoes,’ this refers to a gay Chinese person who has a case of white boy/girl fever, and thus tends to only date Caucasians. There are also ‘rice eaters,’ ‘sushi eaters’ and more, depending on your cuisine of choice. You get the idea.

Chugui (出柜)
v. To come out of the closet. ‘Gui’ literally means ‘cupboard,’ but we’ll refrain from making food puns, for example, “Did you hear? That fine piece of potato is finally out of the cupboard.” Oops, we just did.

Read more: How to speak gay in Shanghai | CNNGo.com http://www.cnngo.com/shanghai/none/shanghais-gay-lexicon-074511#ixzz0ck4wJO9S