Nonfiction Writing:

• Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora

  • “A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City.” - Google Books

• Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian experience

  • “Writing from an impressive array of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributors discuss a variety of topics, including sexuality and identity politics; community activism and gay activism; transnational aspects of love between women in Thailand; queer South Asian culture in the US; gay and lesbian filmmakers; same-sex sexuality in Pacific literature; and Asian American male homosexuality and AIDS.” - Google Books

• Geisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

  • “In Geisha of a Different Kind, C. Winter Han travels from West Coast Asian drag shows to the internationally sought-after Thai kathoey, or “ladyboy,” to construct a theory of queerness that is inclusive of the race and gender particularities of the gay Asian male experience in the United States.” - NYU Press

• Q & A: Queer in Asian America

  • “The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism and diaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilience.” - Google Books

• Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire

  • “[E]xamines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature.” - Temple University Press

• Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction

  • “Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including Russell Leong's "Camouflage," Lydia Kwa's Pulse, Alexander Chee's Edinburgh, Nina Revoyr's Wingshooters, and Noël Alumit's Letters to Montgomery Clift. Despite many antagonistic forces, these works' protagonists achieve a revolutionary form of narrative centrality through the defiant act of speaking out, recounting their "survival plots," and enduring to the very last page. These feats are made possible through their construction of alternative social structures Sohn calls "inscrutable belongings."” - Google Books

• Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

  • “Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists’ life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations and values that have traditionally forced queer Asian / Pacific Americans into silent shame because of their sexual orientation and/or ethnicity. Authors share not only their experiences growing up but also how those experiences led them to become social activists, speaking out against oppression.” - Google Books