This essay is a close reading of YouTube's Michael & Anthony's video content in which mixed-race Black male pro wrestler Anthony Bowens and his white boyfriend Michael Pavano's romance is represented. The goal is to deploy queer of color critique to unpack how the interracial aspects of Bowens and Pavano's romance offer moments to question, critique, and reimagine the queer politics of interracial dating. Three themes emerge from this reading: reconstructing masc/femme coupling trope, counteracting interraciality, and optimism (and pessimism). This essay considers how Bowens and Pavano's romance reifies or resists postracialism working with the LGBTQ+ liberation movement.

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后种族酷儿浪漫：细读 YouTube（及其他）中安东尼·鲍文斯和迈克尔·帕瓦诺的跨种族关系

本文是对 YouTube 迈克尔和安东尼视频内容的仔细阅读，其中表现了混血黑人男性职业摔跤手安东尼·鲍文斯和他的白人男友迈克尔·帕瓦诺的浪漫史。我们的目标是利用酷儿色彩批评来揭示鲍文斯和帕瓦诺爱情故事中的跨种族方面如何提供质疑、批评和重新想象跨种族约会的酷儿政治的时刻。这篇阅读中出现了三个主题：重建男性/女性耦合比喻、抵消跨种族性和乐观主义（和悲观主义）。本文探讨了鲍恩斯和帕瓦诺的浪漫史如何具体化或抵制 LGBTQ+ 解放运动中的后种族主义。