1: Beginnings
2: Sleepless in Seattle: The complex and complicated coming-out process
3: Doing the transnational time warp: Constructing difference between Korean America and contemporary South Korea
4: Global Korean gaze: Influences from the "West" and the emergence of a Korean gay consciousness in Seoul
5: Negotiating queer/ gay futurity in Seoul
6: Seattle so gay white: Unpacking the experiences of racism among Korean gay men
7: Insidious collusion: Exploring the transnational nature of gay racism
8: Conclusion: Thoughts and reflections from a Samoan queer researcher
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Seutäafili Patrick Thomsen PhD (he/they) is a Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Patrick is a proud fäafafine and queer Samoan scholar, educator, and researcher, having received his doctorate from the University of Washington in Seattle. As an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary scholar, his research interests straddle the lines between queer and LGBT+ Studies, intersectionality, critical race theory, Pacific knowledges, transnationalism, and Korean studies.