The Creepy White Guy and the Helpless Asian: How Sexual Racism Persists in a Gay Interracial Friendship Group.

This article examines how sexual racism persists within an interracial gay friendship group, the Asian Network Group (ANG), which claims to resist such racism by uplifting Asian men's erotic capital. Despite its stated goals, the group reproduces white desirability through four key dynamics: a monitoring practice that enforces interracial stereotypes portraying white men as predatory and Asian men as passive; a normative expectation that Asian men date white men, marginalizing Asian-Asian and non-white relationships; differential experiences of sexual capital where Asian men gain limited desirability contingent on managing fetishization, while white men maintain stable desirability; and implicit anti-Blackness reflected in the exclusion of non-white, non-Asian members. The study contributes to sociological understandings of the racialization of sexuality by showing how sexual racism operates even in spaces designed to counter it, highlighting the complex interplay of race, desire, and agency in queer Asian and white men's interactions.