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Rafaelito V. Sy
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Profile created
April 21, 2006
Rafaelito V. Sy was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He has also
lived in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Boston, and New York. He earned his B.
A. in English from Tufts University and his M. F. A. in Creative Writing
from Cornell University, where he taught the personal essay and creative
writing. He currently resides in San Francisco.
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Potato Queen (2005)
Potato Queen starts off in Manila, Philippines,
where a young Juancho Chu is living vicariously through reruns of US
television sitcoms and dreaming of a life in the less oppressive land of
America.
As a young man, Juancho makes his way to San Francisco
to establish a life for himself in the United States. While working at a
travel agency ironically selling tours to "exotic" locales like the
Philippines, Juancho works toward his US citizenship.
It’s not long before he begins making friends and
discovering the gay nightlife that San Francisco has to offer. Along
comes Gerald, a white man who is attracted to Asian men – a "rice
queen." Juancho finds that he is usually attracted to white men, thus
dubbed a "potato queen."
Juancho and Gerald seem to be perfect for each other,
but complications along the way include a variety of very willing Asian
men and a surprisingly down-to-earth white porn star.
Will Juancho and Gerald remain "just friends?" Will
Juancho secure the US citizenship he has always dreamed of? Will he
actually meet the porn star he used to watch on the big screen in dark
movie houses?
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