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I stand for marriage equality! Do you?
Keep an eye on the courts today (Prop 8) and tomorrow (DOMA)!

#unitedforequality

Hello friends!

Okay, so SJSU Mosaic Cross-Cultural Center asked Q&A SJSU to make a collage for the display case at the student union for Asian-American Awareness month, which is awesome! This is for y’all to enjoy!

Collage items:
-GAPA
-Q&A SJSU Gender Bender Dance Lesson
-Q&A T-Shirt Design
-Trikone’s Kulture Kulcha Grand Gala
-API Family Pride: A Public Recognition & Celebration of Private Courage
-National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA)
-Queer Asian Conference: Collide Connect Create
-Queer & Asian Spring 2012 Meeting Schedule
-Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian Bisexual Queer women and Transgender Coalition (APIQWTC) 25th Annual Banquet
-Q&A SJSU Welcome Flyer
-“That’s What She Said” Webseries Cast
-Queer & Asian Panel: Religion and Spirituality
-Project 4PLay: Friday Night Social Club
-Q&A Adjourning Potluck 2010
-Q&A Boys
-Gender Bender Dance Lesson 2010
-Trikone/GAPA/APIQWTC: 2011 Rice Bowl
-Q&A Halloween Day: Mummy Competition
-Q&A SJSU, Stanford Q&A, Cal Q&A, Davis APIQ, SFSU AQUA Beach Day
-Q&A SJSU delegation at 2010 QACON
-The Genderbread Person
-Queer Pin@y Conference 2010 

-toodles

SEE YOU ALL THERE :D

Hello Q&A members!

Here’s a special event for November and celebrating LGBT Awareness month, and also harnessing an Asian perspective. So come together on Thursday, November 3, 2011 in San Jose and learn from one another in student and professional realms.

11.03.11 – Navigating Queer Identities

Explore the diversity of queer identities through a student and professional lens. Learn about the challenges that LGBTQIA individuals face at school and the workplace and how we can promote equality in these environments.

Date:
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Time:
6:30pm – 7pm Registration
7pm – 9pm Program

Location:
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
2400 Moorpark Ave. Room 210 
San Jose, CA 95128

Free to attend (donations appreciated)
Free Food will be provided
RSVP via Facebook or Socializr

(Source: SBFT)

One of our very own members planned and organized this very event, and so we need as many people there to show support and ignite the community awareness! :D

-Cheers!

Hello Queer & Asian Family!

Here’s a Queerfully Asian event for all of you this weekend, Saturday, September 24, 2011 

Rice Bowl 2011
A Joint Summer Picnic / BBQ / Games Mashup!
Hosted by: APIQWTC / Trikone / GAPA

Noon - 5pm
Sat, September 24th, 2011
Speedway Meadow @ Golden Gate Park (spots #13 - #16)
San Francisco, CA 

An outdoor day of fun for Queer APIs and their friends!!!
It’s free! It’s for Women &[/or] Men! It’s for Everyone!

Co-sponsoring with GAPA and Trikone, APIQWTC is excited to celebrate yet another wonderful summer in the Golden Gate Park. This is the one and only annual API queer [multi]-gender BBQ & sports event.  And this year, it’s going to be bigger than ever. :-)

Families/kids welcome, pets on leash welcome!  Feel free to bring friends and others to come celebrate together with APIQWTC, Trikone, and GAPA!

We will have games and sports ranging from volleyball and soccer to a balloon toss, limbo contest, and random silly fun!  BBQ and soft drinks provided, feel free to bring a snack, dish, or beer/wine (no kegs though).  Come enjoy a beautiful park and a fun outdoor event - see you there!

We have 4 picnic tables on the south side of the meadow, #13,14,15, and 16, with two grills.

(Source: apiqwtc.org)

This is one event you’ll want to go to if you wanna social network, play games/sports, and EAT with NorCal’s Queer Pan-Asian Multi-Gendered Community! w0ot w0ot w0ot! Remember to tell your friends!

Have fun!

Hi Q&A readers!

Over the summer Q&A signed up to become the 28th member of Asian Pacific Islander Justice Coalition (APIJC) upon their 5th year anniversary. 

The API Justice Coalition is a network of Asian Pacific Islander (API) focused organizations that work together to empower and advocate for the API community. We seek to be a united voice of positive change on the issues that affect the API community including but not limited to: immigrant rights, social and human services, race relations, anti-Asian violence prevention and awareness, API-focused legislation, voting rights, and language access.

APIJC advocates for social justice, and seeks to unite and empower the Asian Pacific Islander Community.

BUT ANYWAYS, as a volunteer opportunity, and a community building experience the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) of SJ-Japantown asked members of APIJC to recruit their members to help restore the building on 

Issei Memorial Building Clean Up Day

Saturday, September 9, 2011

565 N. 5th Street, San Jose, CA

From 9:00am - 2:30pm

RSVP times with Leon Kimura at elskay@aol.com

Please let Leon know ASAP! 

What up, Q&A fans!

Hey ya’ll, Q&A has an event we’d like to share with y’all: Toast of the Town: Tech Edition Join OneVietnam & South Bay First Thursdays on August 4th at Koji Sake Lounge in San Jose

Koji Sake Lounge
48 S. First Steet
San Jose, CA

[This event for you] to mingle with some of the brightest engineers and the most ambitious entrepreneurs in the Asian American High-Tech communities around the Bay Area.

The night is totally FREE. We only ask that you purchase drinks to support our organizations and/or make small donations at the door. Come rub elbows with the leading innovators, and network with young professionals and community leaders.

This event is free and to RSVP go here: http://tot-tech.eventbrite.com/

SPECIAL GUESTS:
Hung Nguyen, Vice President and Chief Engineer of AirKast
Lam Tran, Founder of My Web Media 
Andy Do, Founder of Embedded Works and Co-Founder of iAppThat 
Guy Boyer, Founder of Vynetics 
Paul Pham, Product Development Director of OneVietnam

(Source: Toast of the Town: Tech Edition)

South Bay First Thursdays (SBFT) is a monthly dinner series for people in the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors interested in Asian American & Pacific Islander (API) community issues and service opportunities. Each event seeks to educate the audience about an important issue or work in the API community and provide ways for audience members to get involved. Our events are located in the South Bay. (firstthursdays.org)

and

OneVietnam Network is the global online Vietnamese network. OneVietnam Network connects you to Vietnamese communities from around the world. Succeed, together. (onevietnam.org)

Hope to see all of you there! 

Welcome back Q&A members!

Ethan Giang from the HIV Education & Prevention Program at Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) contacted Q&A to inform our members about this upcoming event:

WHO: hosted by AACI and API Wellness Center

WHAT: 2.5 interactive non-overnight retreat for queer/gay/bi/trans API men

WHEN: Friday, June 17th - Sunday, June 19th
Friday: 5 PM - 8 PM Saturday: 9 AM - 5PM Sunday: 9 AM - 5PM 

WHERE: Billy De Frank LGBT Community Center, 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA.

WHY: Great for meeting new Queer & Asian Identified Men, free workshops and learning about issues that affect Queer & Asian identified Men, free catered breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided along with a cash incentive for attending the full retreat.

NOTE: Space is limited and RSVP Required or ‘YES’ on FB Event Page. 

CONTACTS:

Ethan Giang (408) 975-2730 ext. 380 
ethan.giang@aaci.org

Danny Nguyen (415) 292-3420 ext. 334 
danny@apiwellness.org

Men’s Health Specialist HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention Program Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI)
2400 Moorpark Avenue, Suite 216 
San Jose, CA 95128 (Banyan Tree Room)
Tel: (408) 975-2730 ext. 380 
Fax: (408) 975-2745 
ethan.giang@aaci.org
www.hiv.aaci.org
www.aaci.org

Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI) is Santa Clara County’s largest community-based organization focused on the Asian community.

Their mission is to improve the health, mental health and well-being of individuals, families and the Asian community by:

1. Providing an array of high quality health and human services.

2. Sharing expertise about the Asian community’s needs and best service delivery practices.

3. Providing Asian leadership in advocating on key health and human services issues.

(Source: AACI.org)

Many thanks in advance to Ethan Giang for coordinating this! Come join us for a 2.5 day interactive (non-overnight) retreat!

Hello Queer and Asian Followers!

Q&A is glad to receive community outreach emails from the community itself to relay to our extended community, so here is one of those emails. 

Greetings Community Members,

I am sending this message on behalf of the LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project, Mental Health America of Northern California. We are currently seeking LGBTQQIA individuals who identify as Asian and/or Pacific-Islander to serve as part of the API LGBTQ Advisory group. Attached in this email is an application for the group that explains what the LGBTQ Reducing Disparities Project is, and more specifically, the function of the advisory groups. Application is open to any API LGBTQ constituent that resides in California. Participation in this advisory group means that your input will help the Reducing Disparities Project in developing statewide recommendations that will benefit our community.  

Please note that we are primarily searching for members to participate in the API LGBTQ Advisory Group; however, you are more than welcome to also apply for any other group you may be interested in as well. Keep in mind that other groups may have already reached maximum capacity when applying.

If you have any questions about this project, you are more than welcome to contact me with your concerns. After filling out your application, please send it to the following address: “LGBTQmentalhealth@att.net” as soon as possible. The current deadline is on a rolling basis until a sufficient amount of group members is selected.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

I look forward to collaborating with you in this monumental project.

Cordially,

Justin Louie Lock

Phone: (916)370-0555

Email: Justin.louie.lock@gmail.com

Palo Alto University

  » Masters Student, Clinical Psychology

University of California, Davis

  » Psychology & Human Development B.A.S 

Equality Action Now

  » Professional Intern

  www.equalityactionnow.org

UC Davis Asian & Pacific-Islander Queers

  » President (2009-2010)

  » Secretary & Political Chair (2008-2009)

  » General Coordinator (2007-2008)

  www.apiq.tumblr.com

If you are at all interested in this, the application is linked, there are many descriptions to FAQ in when you click on the link.