5/18 Roy/Kelly Loves Tony

In Sandip Roy’s article, “Mobile Cultures,” Roy speaks a lot about the LGBTQ community. Roy in the very beginning of the article mentions how if you were to look up the word “gay” almost seven million hits show up, while in South Asia, only 360,000 hits show up. This shows the audience that homosexuality is not fully seen as acceptable in Asian communities. The United States on the other hand is more open to the idea of same-sex relationships and marriages. Roy goes onto describing the journey of the queer South Asian community of how it was small on the internet, but grew in size after once more people had access to the internet. This also ties into the fact that western cultures rely heavily on these technologies and can be transferred over to other cultures such as South Asian in which can impact their societies heavily. By taking in the industrial society that the United States adopted, South Asian queer societies were able to evolve and develop more because of the rapid growth of popularity the internet had.

In the film, Kelly Loves Tony, it related to a lot of ideas that were seen in previously read articles. Such as how in Shah’s article where Laotian girls want to reach higher education and better goals in their life rather than getting married early. Even though Kelly becomes pregnant and marries Tony, she still is seen wanting to strive higher. There was a particular scene in the film where she is talking to the audience of how she tells Tony that not every mother has to stay home, they can go to school too. This was a form of resistance because Kelly wanted to go against the tradition of mothers staying home, and try to pursue a higher education because it was stated throughout the film that it was her goal. The film also deals with cultural struggle in which Tony has to face the possibility of being deported. Tony struggles to find a way to keep his life in the United States for the sake of his new family because he wants to be there to support his family.

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