BONUS EPISODE: Filmmaker Andrew Ahn joins us to talk about The Wedding Banquet — his hilarious, heartfelt new film about queer Asian identity that had us SOBBING 😭! We get into everything: working with Bowen Yang, LA’s 321 parties, Millennial indecision, chosen vs. biological family, Korean spa culture, and why queer theory’s kind of a buzzkill. When it’s time to Be Real, Andrew gets into his beef with twink death . Support us by subscribing to our PATREON ! Follow us at @literallygaysians on Y...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Our final episode of the season — where we drunkenly share chaotic advice to listener-submitted quandaries! From how to find a gay friend group, to how to break into one. How to bottom with hemorrhoids, and whether you should laser your butt hair off. We stumble hilariously through this finale and end on a Be Real — with the help of Cory Nakamura (@igotthedoorcor). Catch up on Part 1 of the finale first before you listen to this one! More importantly, rest in peace John. You were one of the podc...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 13
It’s the season finale! We reach into the listener mail bag and attempt to answer your questions — with the help of Cory Nakamura (@igotthedoorcor), also known as Bao’s boyfriend. But first, Cory has a *mysterious whisper* surprise in store for us. What could it be??? P.S. Return for part 2 next week! Support us by subscribing to our PATREON ! Follow us at @literallygaysians on Youtube, Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Chris Young (@meatmesouthofmarket....
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 12
We're sorry, ok!?! We're issuing official apologies for things we've said on the podcast, and regrets IRL: wronging our former guests and yelling at our friends in Puerto Vallarta, to Ozempic, Wicked: The Movie and Sarah in 3rd grade. Tune in for the tea! Support us by subscribing to our PATREON ! Follow us at @literallygaysians on Youtube, Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Chris Young (@meatmesouthofmarket.gif) Music by Adam Baker (@adamibaker) Hosted o...
Dec 11, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 11
YOUNGMI MAYER ( @ymmayer), our goddess, our inspo for this show, our ICON - joins us as the first queer woman on the podcast! The comedian and the wisecrack of TikTok and Twitter chats with us about her new memoir I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying . And digs into why gay men adore her, her bravado as an Asian American from Asia, and the struggle of pretending to like a bad film or TV show solely because Asians made it. When it’s time to get real, we all console each other through our recent turmoi...
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 10
We welcome our YOUNGEST guest ever Emmett Chen-Ran ( @doubleemt ) to talk about what he really thinks of the term “gaysian,” why older Gaysians hang out in homogenous groups, rice queens, going on 40 dates in one year, founding his own startup in SF, and what it was like confronting questions about his gender in a Christian, Chinese immigrant home 🏳️⚧️. Support us by subscribing to our PATREON ! Follow us at @literallygaysians on Youtube, Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Basically a BUNCH of drunk rants about the latest headlines in the news 🗞️! This year’s White Party Bangkok theme Moo Deng the gaysian hippo Asian American movies we hate privately and love publicly porn star Eli Shaw the Bachelorette finale Dai <3 Shun’s boring YouTube channel, and MORE Support us by subscribing to our PATREON ! Follow us at @literallygaysians on Youtube, Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Chris Young (@meatmesouthofmarket.gif) Edite...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 8
What’s it like to have one of the most famous gaysian holes on the Internet? Gay porn icon and artist CODY SEIYA ( @silver.cody ) hops onto the podcast to talk about his journey into porn and answer our burning questions: Has desire for Asian men changed with OnlyFans? Does his mom know? In an age of queer sexual liberation, how does he find true intimacy? When it’s time to Be Real, he shares a special announcement. Then we close things out with a game of "SeiYA or SeiNO?" Support us by subscrib...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Here’s a full *BE REAL* episode where we confess our innermost feelings and controversial opinions. A rawdogged episode with random takes on: Bao’s new relationship, Gaysians Over COVID, Pride fatigue, the economics of Grindr hookups, brat summer, our IG explore page, sober curiosity and so much more! Support us by subscribing to our PATREON ! Follow us at @literallygaysians on Youtube, Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Chris Young (@meatmesouthofmarket....
Jul 10, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 6
t’s the EDC episode! Danny and Louis, two architects of gaysian nightlife (@qtnightlife), join us to talk about their EDC this year - the craziest thing they saw, and how raves have changed through the decades. Yes, DECADES (these are legends!). We also get real about why it’s important for Asian spaces in queer nightlife. Because “in the clurb, we all fam!” Then we get REAL real about substance abuse in the gaysian community. Support us with a paid subscription on PATREON ! Follow us at @litera...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Just one week after being blacklisted by the poly community because on TikTok, WE’RE INTERVIEWING A THROUPLE! Jay, Alfred and Joe join us to talk about their little trifecta of gaysian love. We have a wholesome and adorable conversation about how and why they formed their relationship. Then get into the mechanics - like how exactly do 3 people share a bed? Then they get real about what’s misunderstood about throuples. And what people like you should stop saying about them! Support us with a paid...
May 08, 2024•45 min•Season 2Ep. 4
We’re back with GAYSIAN RAGE 🥩 . This episode is all about our BEEFs. Petty beefs and deeper ones. Beefs that will get us unfollowed. That will drive our Spotify rating down FURTHER. Join us as we unleash our anger at Joy Luck Club, dance floor sex, guys with husbands AND boyfriends, Above & Beyond, DJs who sing on top of their sets…and many more. Plus, we get raw and real about internalized bottom shame. Support us with a paid subscription on PATREON ! Follow us on Instagram , TikTok , and...
Apr 17, 2024•51 min•Season 2Ep. 3
It’s the gaysian podcast crossover of your DREAMS (or nightmares) ! Lee and Nuri from the “ Why Won’t You Love Yourself? ” podcast join us for pure CHAOS. We talk about finding each other in the gaysian podcast multiverse. Then, GET RAW AND REAL about Tumblr porn, social hierarchies in the gaysian scene, friendships/dating in your 30s, and SF vs LA fashion. Expect LOTS of inter-generational shade! (No Donchas were harmed in the making of this episode) And tune in to see if Lee and Nuri can break...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 2
DONUT come FOR her, or she will DESTROY you! 🍩 Rupaul’s Drag Race season 8 finalist Kim Chi (@kimchi_chic) opens our second season - bringing peak unhinged group chat energy 💬. We learn what Kim can and cannot share based on her NDA, and how she’s setting the record straight on burritos, chicken feet, and the season 16 queens. When it’s time to get real, we normalize sleep apnea shame and get unserious about panic attacks and loneliness. BREAKING NEWS! Part 1: You can now support us on PATREON...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We’re closing our ✨first season✨ with the BEST GUESTS EVER: you guys! We’re opening the mail bag and answering questions from gaysians all over the world. As your jobless, single, and impulsive co-hosts, we know our advice is giving ✨unqualified✨. So this finale is a chaotic Korean army stew of SPICY TOPICS 🔥: What’s Gaysian Math ? Should Gaysians post about Palestine/Israel? Can you and your ex really be friends? What’s an unintentional vs. intentional orgy? Then, we send off this season final...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Send noods! 🍜 We’re tackling every Asian’s favorite topic: FOOD. Jon Kung (@jonkung), self-taught chef, podcaster and dumpling messiah of TikTok, joins us to talk about being a third culture cook, tomato caviar sandwiches, cartoon meatballs, and his upcoming cookbook KUNG FOOD (preorder it below!). Plus, a quick round of hot takes on MSG and bottoms rights. Hurry eat while it’s hot! Pre-order Jon's book here . Do *your* part to place gaysians on the bestsellers list! Listen to Jon's podcast wit...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Your hosts have been “in-between boyfriends” since 20$&**(redacted). For years, we’ve assembled Blue Apron dinners alone, snapping IG stories of our dominant fap hand on National Boyfriend Day. Yet boy relationships is our most-requested listener topic! So we welcome fiancés/friends Justin and Jason to show us what one queer relationship looks like in 2023. We learn that you can find true love on Grindr. That open relationship evolve. And navigating parents, hookups, and the community as a m...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 21
It’s FOLSOM WEEK ! The perfect time to get *all tied up* in a convo on kink, BDSM, porn and sex work! Joining us is adult performer and kinkfluencer Zed Sheng a.k.a @toolboi , fresh from his first-ever Kink.com scene. We exchange our wildest Folsom memories and fetish curiosities. And Zed guides us through the pleasures of rope bondage, how kink found him, reclaiming the radical joy of being a bottom, and Asian representation in gay porn. Gaysian pup play makes a cameo, obvie (woof!) 🐶. So stra...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 20
We’ve had little time to catch up on our own gaysian feelings. So this week - it’s a whole Be Real episode! Just your hosts covering their world tour of gaysian milestone birthday trips, the sexual tension on these trips, tough lonely unemployment days, and our parents changing (or not). Follow us at @literallygaysians on Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Chris Young (@meatmesouthofmarket.gif) Music by Adam Baker (@adamibaker) Key art by Chris Young Emai...
Sep 06, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 19
GAYSIANS IN YOUR AREA! Three of our biggest K-pop stan friends come onto the podcast to reminisce about the rise of K-Pop in queer Asian culture. Then, we get into a DDU-DDU-DEBATE about the most under- and overrated songs and acts. When it’s time to be real, we dig into complicated feelings about the genre. So whether your K-pop knowledge is trainee status like Doncha, or Idol status like guests Jack Choi, Derrence Lim and Steve Cha - geek out before we say gee gee gee gee baby baby! K-Pop fand...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Jack Song knew something was up when leaders at his former tech employer began shutting down his responsibilities. What happened next helped Jack find his voice for change against anti-Asian bias in Silicon Valley. He joins the podcast to tell us what he’s learned, how queer Asian folks can spot discrimination at work. AND, how to stand up to it (sue the f*ckers!). Also, Doncha gets real about his grief. Read Jack's story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/07/06/asian-americans-denied-le...
Aug 09, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 17
The gaysian sage of TikTok, Chris Zou, joins the podcast to chat about his accidental road to internet and Australian fame, and the gay little Chinese boy behind the @storiesofcz. He joins a game of hot takes on affirmative action, dating White guys, butt hair and other critical global issues. And when it’s time to be real, we tackle the fake *ssholes who run online sextortion rings. Follow us at @literallygaysians on Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Ch...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 16
On Father’s Day, we asked ourselves, “ could we be dads? ” So we invited two real-life gaysian dads to explore fatherhood. Ed Center (@villagewellparenting) and Bobby Lee (@leeland15) join us to chat about their path to fatherhood : when they knew they were ready, intergenerational family drama and trauma, lots of internal struggle, and how they made it all happen through adoption and surrogacy. We get real about a tragic loss Chris is going through, then wrap up with a hilarious game of “Dad or...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Our previous episode stirred up some DRAMA! We dive into the Electric Gaysian Controversy at EDC with two new guests: NYC rave ambassadors Tay Nguyen (@taywen) and Martin Hui (@martinhui). And we bring back rave researcher Aydin Quach (@aydin_quach) to get his hot takes on the aftermath -- the cliques! the fanning on Kinetic Field! the NY gaysians! the rave baes! the trance-phobia! Sh*t gets real when we talk about how the controversy felt and share our peak core memories from EDC. Plus, Tay and...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 14
SO MANY gaysians were at Electric Daisy Carnival last week - but not your hosts! So Bao and Chris interview someone who did. Our guest Aydin Quach brings a fresh perspective as an EDC first-timer. But also as someone who’s dedicated his academic research to the growing gaysian subculture at raves. We cover EDC 2023’s highlights and low lights, totem poles, and rave baes. Then dig into Aydin’s research on raves and their place in queer Asian culture. Plus, we get real about circuit party behavior...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 13
It's GAYSIAN WEEK! Or, Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander week, to be exact. If you haven't heard of it, you’re not alone. It's relatively new! And drops on this upcoming week that shares the last days of API heritage month (May) and first few of Pride month (June). So we bring you a *mini-episode* where we get a bit corny, a bit softcore Asian American studies with each other. Then proceed to play an unhinged round of f**k marry kill: famous gaysians edition. We return next week with a full...
May 24, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 12
After White supremacists stormed a children’s event she hosted at a Bay Area library last year, friend and Drag Story Hour co-founder Panda Dulce was thrust into the center of the drag ban debate. In this week’s episode, Panda recounts the story and why it’s the last time she’ll tell it publicly. We also get into the complicated journey of healing from traumatic incidents. Plus, life in a drag punk band, navigating the Bear community as an Asian Bear a.k.a “panda,” those impenetrable Panda conga...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
We’re popping the top off our GAYSIAN RAGE. Inspired by the Netflix series “BEEF,” we won’t bottle up our grudges any longer! Listen as we go through our beefs on a range topics: gender reveal parties, Frank Ocean’s Coachella set, misgendering, vaping, hemorrhoids….and finally, each other. Minor feelings? We’ve got major ones. The complaint department has fully arrived (and we hope we don’t get canceled). Follow us at @literallygaysians on Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen ...
Apr 26, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Everybody say clurb! Wearing our emotional support tank tops, we stumble down memory lane of our favorite pastime - *going out*. Gaysian clubbing has changed, but have we? Are our nights less messy, and the rice queens less creepy? Plus, we get real about the passing of a San Francisco drag icon. Follow us at @literallygaysians on Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produced by Bao Nguyen (@baobaobaozer) and Chris Young (@meatmesouthofmarket.gif) Music by Adam Baker (@adamibaker) Key art by Chris Y...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 9
Rob Oh joins the pod to walk us through life as a viral TikTok and Reels gaysian. We cover the TikToks that bring us life and the cringey ones that need to stop. And we open up about our histories with depression (content warning: we discuss self-harm and suicidal thoughts). When it's finally time to be real: Chris evades his feelings far away from home, Rob addresses a spicy rumor, and Bao makes a personal announcement. Follow us at @literallygaysians on Instagram and TikTok. Hosted and produce...
Mar 29, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 8
