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Title: Not much self analysis
Review: No one seems to really discuss race ,ethnicity, and inter-racial relationships openly in western gay society or mainstream media, (except when it comes to blaming African Americans for the passing of the anti gay marriage Prop 8 in Nov. 2008)That's why I was pleasantly surprised and intrigued by Daniel Gawthrop's memoir "The Rice Queen Diaries" what I thought would be an interesting look when homosexuality, race, and desire collidePart academic/anthropological study of gay asian men, part travelogue, part red shoe diaries, Gawthrop chronicles his life as the gay, white Wilt Chamberlain with "yellow fever", jumping from asian man to asian man, first in his native Vancouver Canada, then an extended 3 month vacation in Thailand and Vietnam, to eventually "going native" (his words) by living in Thailand for three years.I commend the authors frankness and honesty, and owning up to the "Rice Queen" label. He said Thailand and Vietnam changed him, but where is the proof?
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