For gay API men, situational factors include the racism foundinthelargelywhitegaycommunity.Inexaminingthe role racismand racialized construction of Asian men within the gay community, many scholars have hypothesized that social discrimination may have a negative influence on HIV risk behaviors among gay API men and API MSM (Choi et al., 1999; Wilson &Yoshikawa, 2004; Yoshikawa, Wilson, Chae, & Cheng, 2004).