A sexy invitation into a busy gay bathhouse recuperates that space as erotic and legitimate and affirms the East Asian man as a desiring subject. Part of the GMHC series of Safer Sex Shorts. *No spoken dialogue. The message "Fuck safely, use a condom!" appears in Tagalog, Hindi, Chinese, and Vietnamese.)

"I met Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz, video production coordinators for GMHC, in 1989, at a conference on gay and lesbian representation. Although I am based in Canada, they approached me to produce the "short" for Asians, presumably because they knew and liked my work, but also because they could not locate an openly gay Asian videomaker in the United States who would undertake such a project. For my part, I was interested in producing the tape because it offered the chance to create sexual images of gay Asian men; images that represent them as sexual subjects in the process of realizing their desires; images that disrupt the various racial/sexual clichés about passivity, premature ejaculation, small dicks, and so on; images that challenge our almost total exclusion from the North American gay erotic imagination." ~ Director Richard Fung, in Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video

Thank you to GMHC, and to the New York Public Library and K.A. Johnson for digital mastering and reproduction.