- Um, it was definitely interesting.
- Well I don't know too many gay Asians,
so I'll say heterosexual.
(slow music)
- I am Ashley and I am bisexual.
- My name is Giovanni, I am straight.
- My name is Emmanuel and I am gay.
- It was really interesting on a lot of levels.
- Her voice kind of sounded lesbian.
- I think it was a relatively harmless activity
in the setting.
- Startin' off with the sniff.
- It probably goes along with like how I'm labeled
in my everyday life.
- She's straight.
- It kind of rubbed me the wrong way because
they were all like, pleased with themselves
when they had gotten it right.
Which is fine, but it's like,
A, maybe it's a fluke,
B, you're probably playing on stereotype,
C, it's not your place to look at me
and be like, "This is your sexuality."
Like I realize that was the purpose of this video, but.
- Would you walk and strike a pose, please?
- Honestly, I didn't care.
- Definitely a lesbian.
Most girls, if you said "Strike a pose,"
they would've been like, uh uh, yeah.
- I mean, if feel like everybody kind of labels
everybody in any setting.
Whether they consciously remind themselves of it
or based on their sexuality or avoiding them
because they don't want them to get attracted.
- Trust me on this, okay.
She looked me in my eyes, she like dudes.
- I did learn some new terms.
I also heard terms that seem to have a different meaning
from when I first heard them.
- I'm still deliberating whether
I should identify as bisexual or pansexual.
- All of them labels shocked me.
So many of those.
- So I know he's not a lesbian.
Queer femme, no.
Asexual?
You might be.
- I didn't know anything, what with pansexual,
asexual was, and I was like listening to everybody,
I was like, "Okay, that's what that is,
"that's what that is."
- Especially that queer feemie?
What's it called? (laughing)
Who?
Queer femme, yeah.
That one right there.
- The people coming in here guessing
assumed that their own identity was the default
for everyone, and--
No, I mean, I don't think it makes me angry.
I think it's just an unfortunate part of human nature
that what's different is automatically wrong.
- Push me, that way.
Okay.
- Um, yeah.
Sometimes people think that I'm gay before they talk to me.
- Some people do be thinkin' that I'm gay.
- I just think it's like stereotypically
that gay guys dress nicer or they wear skinny jeans
or like smell nice and stuff like that.
- You know some people probably think
because you know, how my race dress,
especially where I'm from,
since I don't dress like them,
they think that I'm gay.
- I don't believe in any of the stereotypes.
You can't judge somebody on the way they look
or the way they act or the way they talk.
- A queer woman.
I find that a lot of people associate
the word lesbian with porn, and I don't like how
limiting it is.
I personally don't like it, but,
if someone uses it to describe me,
I usually will not correct them
because I do understand that technically,
that's what I am.
- You look terrific.
- She smells really good.
- Where are you from?
- From Thailand.
- I'm a transgender, but I'm considering myself
as a straight.
Not really, it was a fun day.
- Can you sing us your favorite song?
♫ Ra ra ah ah ah
♫ Ro ma, ro ma ma
- I used to close down myself a lot.
Like, you could be hurt, not treated well in the school.
Don't get a job.
You have problem with your family.
But now today, I'm really open.
People getting more educated.
The new generation is more understanding.
- Oh this turned into a whole new.
(laughing)
- I also didn't like how I pass as straight
which, a lot of people pointed out that it's
like a privilege to pass as straight for safety reasons.
But I think anyone who says that they have
no problem being labeled as what they don't identify as,
I think anyone who says that is coming from
a place of privilege.
- What's your favorite sport?
- Baseball?
- What's your favorite type of car?
- I like Camaros.
- Yeah, me too.
See this guy, talkin' about man.
- Growing up in a Filipino Catholic family,
you know, you had to be straight.
And so, I felt like being labeled straight
was kind of a compliment, actually.
- She's not really, like, girly-girly.
She has like this kind of like masculine energy to her.
- What it means to me is not having to
define exactly what my sexuality means.
I am not necessarily straight.
There were like signs along the way,
but then in high school it kind of just hit me one day.
I was watching
this music video for an artist I really like,
and just something kind of clicked.
There was something different about the way
I saw this person.
(laughing)
Her name's LP.
- She screams straight woman.
- Yeah, she's straight.
Because.
- Yes.
For like, three, four years.
I don't know yet.
Can you ask him for me? (laughing)
Please?
- Not really. (chuckling)
- I hope so.
You know, it was a good experience, it really was.
- Yeah, today I did definitely learn a lot.
Yeah, it was really cool.
- I have words I'm gonna look up,
even though I've gotten some information
from people, and it does kind of make you think
about either how people perceive you
and how you occasionally perceive other people.
(laughing)
- Hey, nothin' wrong with learnin' somethin' new, man.
(upbeat music)