title: Premature gestures: a speculative dialogue on Asian Pacific Islander lesbian and gay writing.
abstract: A collaborative exploration of the political realities and implications faced by self-identified Asian Pacific Islander lesbian and gay writers. Mixed-genre piece combining the essay and dialogue form, it contains sections co-written as well as individual pieces by the authors. The issues touched upon through this discussion are: available community-based and mainstream publishing venues, development of community-based writing, relation between grassroots political organizing and writing, API and lesbian/gay identity issues, internalized racism and homophobia, and other barriers for API lesbian and gay writers.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles.
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Hom
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D001213:Asian / Q000523:psychology*; D001319:Authorship; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008297:Male; D010139:Pacific Islands / Q000208:ethnology; D011057:Politics; D011822:Race Relations; D012933:Social Identification