Abstract
The proverbial diversity of South Asia is reflected in its diaspora in North America in numerous networks and organisations of queer South Asians. These sites produce debates about authenticity in tension with conceptions of gay representations. Crosscutting such tensions is a critique of individualist identities, thought by most to be foundational to being American and fully implicated in North American middle-class model of gayness. While not advancing an essentialist argument about a collectivist East and individualist West, this paper explores gay men's narratives regarding shapig relations with their families and struggling to build supportive gay, South Asian identified communities
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