You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Queer Asian American Diaspora. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. This is also more evident because of the religion that most Asian societies adhere to. Faiths among Asian cultures are observed with conservative religiosity. Among others, these factors make it challenging for the queer Asian American to foster a reassured life with himself and his community truly. An ideal existence where he is comfortable with his multiple identities to co-exist is a challenge to the queer Asian American diaspora.

&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp.&nbsp. Raja G. Bhattar and Nathaniel A. Victoria, in their article titled Rainbow Rice: A Dialogue between Two Asian American Gay Men in Higher Education and Student Affairs, explores their identity as gay men belonging to Asian communities in the United States and how it has affected their full realization of their sexuality. Further complicating their coming out process is their strong religious backgrounds that had always been part of their childhood identity. Nathan was brought up in a strictly Catholic background and went to a Catholic school, which had never encouraged openly gay students. Raja is in an even deeper predicament as he is Hindu, but his family came from a long line of priests. The discord between homosexuality and religion is not an uncommon theme in sexual identity. But the reality of this struggle becomes pressing when one’s own family consciously urges strict gender adherence. These two men had always had a problem in coming out even to their own family, who remain unaccepting and considers their sexuality a matter of choice. Nathan states, “My Catholic religion and my Filipino American cultural identity did not provide the channels I need to express myself” (Bhattar and Victoria 43). This same feeling was shared by Raja, who is subject to an even bigger predicament.

Indian culture strongly believes in arranged marriages, and my mother has already chosen a bride. This poor woman is now waiting for me to marry her and be her Prince Charming. The problem is, I want my own Prince Charming, too.&nbsp. (Bhattar and Victoria, 42).

The muddled understanding of South Asian disposition to regard homosexuality as a Western creation is perhaps the distinctive factor that explains why between Nathan and Raja, the latter experiences more persistent complications about his ethnic background. Another Indian American LGBT recognized this same idea in Jasbir Puar.