Screening Shirtless AZN Men: The Full Frontal Power of Intimate Internet Industries

For the first heterosexual male porn star of Asian descent in thec West, Keni Styles’s tumblr project shows the full frontal power of the face soc as to increase the representations of diverse Asian and Asian American malec sexualities online. In his new video Look, I’m Azn!, filmmaker and scholarc Nguyen Tan Hoang gathers the ways in which Asian men use online gayc cruising sites such as grindr to play with the visibility of their racial identityc in relation to the sexual practices and partners they desire. This articlec explores how Asian/American men use the Internet to register one’s racialc visibility and the particularity of one’s desires to explode their usual ascriptionc as asexual, passive, and undesirable.