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*****SAVE THE DATE*****Queer & Asian Panel: Family Dynamics

Monday, April 8, 2013, 5pm - 6pm 
Mod A (Career Center)
Near Aquatic Center & AS Print Shop. 
[Next to SJSU LGBTRC Mod B]

Panelists will speak about their queer identity and their ethnic Asian backgrounds. Come listen, ask questions, and learn about their unique experiences with respect to family dynamics.

Everyone is welcome! Bring friends, and tell everyone about it! :D

Gay Wedding Is Embraced by Disney in Tokyo

Koyuki Higashi and her partner of one and a half years tied the knot in front of 30 well-wishers on Friday, but much more of the country was in on the celebration, the first same-sex wedding at the theme park here.

Ms. Higashi, a stage actress turned gay rights activist, and her partner, Hiroko, who has not revealed her full name, posted frequent social media updates of their wedding plans and from their Christian-style ceremony, with a romantic gondola ride.

“My partner Hiroko and I just held a gay wedding at the Tokyo Disney Resort. Even Mickey and Minnie are here to celebrate with us!” Ms. Higashi, 28, wrote in a Twitter post that also had a picture of the newlyweds posing with the big-eared Disney characters and a flower-festooned cake. Her entry was reposted more than 6,000 times, drawing largely positive responses.

(Source: NY Times)

Hello friends! Today, we will be having Bowling with the Queers from 4:30 to 7pm at the bottom floor of SJSU Student Union with Queers Thoughtfully Interrupting Prejudice, El Pais, and TransTalk!

Bring money, socks, and your wonderful personalities. Also, later in the night at 7:30pm at the LGBTRC (MOD B) our regular meeting space we will be having movie night. The movie will be SAVING FACE! Yay! See you all there!

Toodles!

We had a wonderful Halloween at Q&A’s Halloween Social Meeting!

Come to today’s Queer Asians Getting Political, learn about legislation and politics that affect the Queer Asian community!
Guest speakers from API Equality Northern California, and APIQWTC (Asian Pacific Islander Queer Transgender Community) will be also be in attendance.

Remember, it is fine if you come late or leave early, the community just wants to see your smiling faces!
We meet 4:30-6pm on Thursdays in Mod B (LGBTRC). :)

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queerkhmer:

The traditional term for homosexuality in China is “the passion of the cut sleeve boys” (断袖之癖), so named from the story of Emperor Ai of Han (27 BCE - 1 BCE) and Dong Xian (23 BCE - 1 BCE). As the story goes, Emperor Ai fell in love with a minor official named Dong Xian. Dong Xian quickly gained the Emperor’s favor. One afternoon as they slept in bed, Emperor Ai woke up. Rather than wake his lover, he cut the sleeves of his robe to let his lover sleep longer. Homosexuality was regarded as a normal affair up until the late Qing dynasty when the government attempted to westernize the country.

Man, fuck the West.

Oh how romantic. 

Read this diary entry from a queer Asian woman from Taiwan. It can get hard to read at times, but essentially Chen Xue, a Taiwanese cook book author is an out and proud queer woman and wrote about her partner today, so we can see and share her life. 

Wife Diary of 9/14/2012

Breakfast curry bread, breakfast brought back all kinds of bread every day, although the assignments, but very delicious bread classroom, she turned over on a few good friends, someone asked her: “get married you ? “she said:” knot., but I am married with a girl. The other: “….” But in Taiwan, it was not illegal it? “Breakfast, said:” It does not matter, we want to get married to get married. “

She was so out of the closet with the three men. Early as Dong style, concise, clear, and natural.

So the the bread classes of students know that “as early as his wife, and the last time we went to a book signing in Taichung, because not keep up with high-speed rail coaster we sent is one beautiful girl.

I would love to see a breakfast person’s friends, as if that allows me to imagine her class like bread.

Both busy becoming good little addition to participate in activities together, you can get along, and we recently hooked Zhen Huan Chuan, time to have a fancy few episodes, so to get along in the night into two crowded into the computer before my side to help her massage, while discussing the story, I do not really how addicted, but to the night, really tired, we squeezed sitting, any drama series plot flow through the eyes and squeezed the hand, squeezed legs , tea, together with the curse Hua Fei …. pupils feeling.

Every time I help her pinch END hand, she would say, “I go to squint, down on the sofa, so sleep a night.

Sometimes I would come to see her, patted her body, see her particularly boyish looks, I am reminded readers to write to the private hearing me and said read my earlier works, in particular, to “love the stranger” feeling very confused. A very long time I do not want to mention this works, because that flag, does is to make that trip with her separation, that completely changed my life.

But now, I can frankly look at the past, I know readers here many people just because our seemingly happy Shiraz partner, so loved us, however, I would like to say how hard and painful process ah, whether it is me or a breakfast person, we are in the past decade, Bianchang all the pain, I treasure those days, Unconventional treasure those self-imposed exile, seemingly adventure or exploration, or even their own are unable to identify themselves initiatives, is the solution of the love of precious those experiences made me, as well as the difficulties of love.

Become their own difficulties must process, I never perfect, I have been skewed to grow up, lost a long time, however, not because breakfast to save me, but because you want to love her heart, because of continuing constantly writing, so I piece together from that maze out.

I looked at her sleeping face, thinking she experienced hell and cold from Habitat, thinking about the heartbreak she had spent with her a long time to gradually settle to digest and understand those hurt and confused, and only then in my mind the most pure The guardian live Zhi love to, I think, she is also traveling the long road to complete their own.

Wives seems happiness diary plain, but I really want to say, is that behind the complex, dangerous love, hardship is to become themselves, to find each other and that scattershot endless road.

So, even if you are still confused, painful, complicated to pull the state, even if you are still lonely, thirsty love, or even a burden to their state, even if you feel that his life has too many errors occurred, wounding hurt himself seems to have can not go back, I do not know how away, I want to say, because you become about to understand the complexity of life, love will find important

Firmly, even if the confusion also firmly Chaona see a little light place went to try to accept yourself, forgive yourself, help yourself to clarify their own, if people love you and cherish that love, if you fall in love with who , treasure this process.

Thousands of miles after you become happy, but I am certain that all of this will not be wasted, these will make you strong, tolerant, then, you are better able to love the.

Bless you. Bless us.

(Translated by Google Translate: Original Transcript Here)

INTRO TO QUEER ASIAN INTERSECTIONALITY
Queer & Asian meeting! :D  

Thursday, September 6, 2012 from 4:30-6:00pm

What does your queer Asian identity mean to you?

What does it mean to be queer?

What does it mean to be Asian?

How is being queer and Asian different from being [queer and non-Asian] or [Asian and non-queer]?

And just what is intersectionality, while we’re at it? Join us in our discussion!

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