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Report Reveals APA Gay & Lesbian Organizations Only Receive 0.7% Of Available LGBT Funding
AAPIP’s Queer Justice Fund recently released the report Missed Opportunities: How Organized Philanthropy Can Help Meet the Needs of LGBTQ AAPI Communities. This report calls out the lack of LGBTQ Foundation funding to LGBTQ AAPI communities and highlights the need to fund AAPI ally organizations that engage in LGBT issues and autonomous LGBTQ AAPI organizations: “Missed Opportunities found that funding in 2009 to LGBTQ AAPI communities amounted to barely 0.7 percent of the total amounted [...] Continue »
Asian Pacific Male Calendar Becoming New Reality Show
The team who created the successful 2010 Asian Pacific Male Calendar are creating a new reality show based on “their behind-the scenes experiences of creating the culturally diverse calendar which simultaneously raised thousands of dollars for charity” that will hopefully go into production early next year. Those involved are excited by “the way the show is intended is to prove that a group of average, every day people can find ways to give back and [...] Continue »
Social Networking And Bone Marrow Donors
I first joined the bone marrow donor registry in the early nineties, after reading about a Chinese boy with leukemia who was looking for a match. Back then (and still the case now), Asian donors were rare, and finding a match if you are of Asian ethnicity or hapa unlikely. It’s almost 20 years later after I joined the registry, and while the issues around bone marrow donation haven’t changed much, the available methods to [...] Continue »
Chinese “Gay” Penguins Wed And Raise A Baby
If you’re familiar with the controversial children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, the idea of “gay” penguins raising a baby penguin isn’t surprising. And Tango Makes Three was based on the real-life story of two male chinstrap penguins at the New York Central Park Zoo, who became loving partners, and were eventually given a their own egg (one that was abandoned by another penguin couple) to hatch and raise. Two new African male penguins in [...] Continue »
Lived Experience: Study Seeking Asian American LGB Students
A new research project is being done over at Western Michigan University on the lived experience of students (undergrad and grad) who self-identify as both Asian American and lesbian, gay or bisexual. The project is hoping to capture the diversity of experiences and interviews are going to be conducted via email (so logistically a bit simpler). The requirements are that you identify as being of Asian descent and LGB; are currently enrolled in a degree-seeking [...] Continue »
SDAFF Film Review: Queers on the Verge
By Johnny C [EDITORS NOTE: This is a review for the Queers on the Verge Shorts Program at the San Diego Asian Film Festival.] The presence and portrayal of any group in cinema is called into question when they are marginalized by ignorance or bigotry—and often times, it’s both. Whether it’s negative portrayals based off of offensive stereotypes or an utter lack of representation, the question remains: how do people tell their story if those [...] Continue »
APA Faith Matters: Patrick Cheng, Theologian and Author of ‘Radical Love’
APA Faith Matters is a periodic interview of Asian Pacific American (APA) leaders in various religious contexts. It highlights those leaders who are passionate about social justice issues that matter to APA communities and work from within their religious contexts. Patrick S. Cheng is the Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, and also writes for the religion [...] Continue »
Dan Choi To Reenlist After Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal
After being discharged from the army after coming out, former officer and West Point grad Dan Choi says that he plans to reenlist after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in the US military. “Going back to the military will be a vindication,” says Choi in a conversation with Politico magazine. “[I’m] going back because I fought to go back. The seriousness of our claims was not just political theatre – it was really [...] Continue »
Male Circumcision & Culture Clash: To Cut Or Not To Cut
Even before my partner and I started the process of having a child, there were discussions about whether circumcision made sense for any new born male baby. It’s a topic that’s widely debated still, and there’s more of a growing movement against the practice. It was certainly top of mind for us, before we found out we were going to have a baby girl, which probably saved us a lot of anguish over having to [...] Continue »
Top 5 Gay/Lesbian Asian Channels On YouTube
A variation of this piece was originally written for AsiansOnYouTube and has been reposted here with permission. By AsiansOnYouTube It was very difficult working on this list of Asian American Gay and Lesbian YouTube channels while at work, because so many of the YouTube search results were quasi-porn. Trying to find quality Lesbian channels was even harder; I had to shift through a ton of Japanese girl-on-girl action videos. Watch my findings, after the jump!
New San Francisco HIV Prevention Plan Excludes Asian Americans
With San Francisco’s HIV community at endemic levels rather than pandemic levels, San Francisco’s HIV director has re-allocated the community-based agencies it funds and has left APIs out of a HIV Prevention Plan which targets Caucasian, African American, and Latino gay men, transgender women, and intravenous drug users. The new plan will redirect funding from API outreach to the newly targeted groups. While the news is disconcerting – to say the least – an anonymous tipster [...] Continue »
No Look Pass Doc Takes A Look At Basketball & Coming Out
In No Look Pass, Emily Tay is an extraordinary young woman born to Burmese immigrants, raised in Los Angeles Chinatown, Harvard educated, starter for their women’s basketball team, and now a professional basketball player in Germany living with her female partner. But she faces a dilemma: coming out to her parents, and she is afraid of being rejected and disowned by them.
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