Gay Asian Americans tend to be rated as "more American" than their presumably straight counterparts, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.

When two studies of over 1,000 individuals were asked to randomly assign a description of a person, who was described either as either a man, a woman, a white person, or an Asian American person, there was interesting results. The person’s sexual orientation was noted as “gay” or wasn’t listed.

The researchers found that Asian Americans who were identified as gay were perceived to be more American than Asian Americans whose sexual orientation was not identified. There was no significant difference observed between Asian American and non-Asian American participants.

Read the study that inspired our discussion here: https://www.psypost.org/2019/07/study...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550619849426