#queer api

Sunday, June 2nd & June 9th, 12:30 - 5 (screenings from 1-4). Main Library - Koret Auditorium

Facine co-presents with the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA and Filipino American Centers, San Francisco Main Library a special program - Embracing the Love: LGBTQ films from Southeast Asia.

Nine short and feature-length films from Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines and Southeast Asian America will be screened.

The University of Maryland’s survey on LGBT Asians is closing in a month, and they need 100 more participants to complete their study! Data on LGBTQ Asians is scarce, given our numbers as a double-minority, so props to UMD for this undertaking.

Data on LGBTQ Asians is scarce, given our numbers as a double-minority. Props to the University of Maryland for conducting a study on the Gaysian experience!

Currently, they still need 200 participants - every 5th completion will get a $20 Amazon gift card, and more importantly, the responses will contribute to this little-studied area of research, and help with community organizing efforts.

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I wanted to highlight this incredible project by API-Equality Northern California to document queer API leaders and their heroism in the queer liberation movement. Much like in Hamilton the musical, “who tells your story” becomes our responsibility because if we don’t, no one else will and our community’s contributions will be forgotten and unacknowledged. Thankfully, the Dragon Fruit Project will ensure that our stories will be remembered and that their lives will be touchstones to inspire future generations.