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Here for queer asian diasporic feelings. Profile image is of Tae Sub and Kyung Soo from Life Is Beautiful (2010), episode 41.

My annotated recommendation lists:

• My S tier list of series with LGBTQ storytelling which stood out to me as being particularly impactful, thought-provoking, and/or risk-taking
• My A tier list of LGBTQ & BL series which were well-done and enjoyable
• My list of great queer films (though currently most of them are more about gay characters - I'm actively looking for films beyond that)
• My list of shows to watch while eating food (and which are conversely risky to watch on an empty stomach) 

Favorites not on MyDramaList:

• Feature films: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Saving Face, The Farewell, Arrival, Koyaanisqatsi
• Games: A Short Hike, Sable, Butterfly Soup, Journey, Gris, Humanity
• SF/F authors: Ken Liu, Kim Stanley Robinson, Isabel J. Kim, Yoon Ha Lee, Ann Leckie, Martha Wells, John Scalzi, Ted Chiang, Charles Stross, Adrian Tchaikovsky

Annotated bibliography of some English-language academic works discussing queer representations in popular culture and mass media in local or transnational Asian contexts:

• Cheung, Elliott and Chieng, Nicholas. (2020). Reflecting on the Critical Success of Your Name Engraved Herein. No Man Is An Island. https://nomanisanis.land/your-name-conversation-part-one/
  This isn't actually an academic article, but rather a discussion which takes a critical look at the historical and political context around Your Name Engraved Herein (2020).
• Han, Qijun. (2019). Diasporic Chinese family drama through a transnational lens: The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Saving Face (2004). International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, Volume 15, Number 3, 1 September 2019, pp. 323-343(21). https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mcp/2019/00000015/00000003/art00004
  This article discusses conflict and negotiation of family culture and sexual, gender, and ethnic identities in immigrant Chinese American families in The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Saving Face (2004).
• Nguyen, Thi Huyen Linh. (2019). Reading the Youtube sitcom My best gay friends: what it means to be gay in Vietnam. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 33 (5). pp. 540-553. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2019.1634179 
  This article discusses My Best Gay Friends (2012), an independent Vietnamese gay webseries, and contextualizes it.
• Sookkasikon, Pahole. (2018). Bangkok is burning: Queer cultural productions of Thainess in diaspora. (Thesis). University of Hawai'i at Manoa. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/8e5026b7-62d5-420c-892d-b13863c71d66/content
  This PhD thesis contextualizes and discusses media which queers Thainess beyond nation-building and the Western gaze. Chapter 1 analyzes the horror-comedy film Pee Mak Phrakanong (2013) and its queering of gender roles and ideas of Thainess in how it departs from previous cinematic interpretations of the folkloric ghost story of Mae Nak Phra Khanong.
• Chuk, T. [祝迪詩]. (2016). Queer representations in Korean media : heteronormativity, homonormativity, and queer transgression. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/241413
  This Master's thesis reviews the modern history of queer cinema in South Korea, then looks at normativity, assimilation and transgression in Two Weddings and a Funeral (2012), Life Is Beautiful (2010) (including an interesting discussion of the "coming out / coming home" concept for queer Asians), You're Beautiful (2009), Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010), Coffee Prince (2007), and k-pop girl group music videos.
• Glynn, Basil and Kim, Jeongmee. (2017). Life is beautiful: gay representation, moral panics, and South Korean television drama beyond Hallyu. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 34 (4) . pp. 333-347. https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/20665/
  This article provides a contextualization and analysis of gay representation in Life Is Beautiful (2010) and the controversy around the series.
• Chiang, Mark. (1998). Coming out into the global system: Postmodern patriarchies and transnational sexualities in The Wedding Banquet. Q&A: Queer in Asian America. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Q_A_Queer_And_Asian/k0A5ArMXamYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA374
  This article critiques issues and power structures erased in The Wedding Banquet (1993).