GLAAD and the API LGBT Community Take on Details Magazine's Defamatory Feature

Details Magazine - 'Gay or Asian?' [ download PDF ] - 529 K
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Details Magazine Uses Stereotypes Against the LGBT Asian Pacific Islander Community [ more ]
Humor is hard to do - as proven by Whitney McNally's attempt in "Gay or Asian" [Details Magazine - April, 2004] to play on stereotypes ["gay"] off of another ["Asian"]...

Details Magazine Responds to GLAAD / API LGBT Concerns [ more ]
After Details Magazine published a defamatory piece in its April 2004 issue, GLAAD contacted Details Magazine's Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres. The Editor acknowledged that running a discriminatory piece about both gay and Asian men was inappropriate. We decided to run a public statement and mobilized the API LGBT community by urging them to send e-mails to the Editor. The Editors apologized - and ran GLAAD's statement in its May issue.

Newsday - 'Insensitive' Details [ more ]
This article offers a fair and balanced report of the Asian American and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities' reaction to Details Magazine's feature "Gay or Asian."

Details Magazine Meets with Members of the Asian Pacific Islander LGBT Community to Discuss Controversial 'Gay or Asian' Feature [ more ]
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men New York (GAPIMNY), and Pauline Park, an Advisory Board member of Asian Pacific Islander for Human Rights (APIHR) met with Details Magazine staff members to discuss the controversial 'Gay or Asian' article published in the April issue.

Details Says "Gay or Asian". We Say Gay AND Asian [ more ]
by John Won, co-chair of Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York

The Advocate - Invisible No More [ download PDF ] - 465 K
It's been a year since an offensive feature in Details inspired unprecedented activism and visibility among gay and lesbian Asians. So how much as really changed?