'There's an element of cruelty which has re-emerged which was probably there in the age of the personal ads. He says this racism is still there, just on a different platform. 'We all felt we were near the bottom of a sexual hierarchy which operates invisibly.' 'It was in connection with meeting other gay men. 'My greatest experiences of racism in Australia were actually not so much being yelled at by bogans out of a ute,' Tony says. The discrimination faced by the society has its effect, as they have not fully come to terms with homosexuality and interracial romance. It made me question my own place in the world. Holding up a straight relationship is bad enough gay relationship has its challenges, but interracial gay dating You would almost call it the height of complications. It's a question Asian Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres highlighted 20 years ago in his documentary China Dolls, during an era when guys used to hook up through published personals ads.Īs a teenager, I remember watching China Dolls on late night television. 'Are we at the bottom of the food chain? When an Asian is compared to a Caucasian, are they less attractive?' You don't get any justification of why,' David says.
'They may have a preconceived idea you were half or mixed, and you go, 'No, actually I'm full Chinese Australian'.
