October 2013
![]() "In Praise of Parents": Oct. 8 API Equality LA
Los Angeles, CA In observance of National Coming-Out Month (October), API Equality LA hosted an immigrant parent panel on Oct. 8th during their general meeting. Facilitated by Marshall Wong, SGV API PFLAG moms, Carol Mannion (Filipina-American) and Minsook Brady (Korean-American) shared their stories from an immigrant mom's perspective of when their sons came out. |
![]() Malaya Project Exhibit: Oct. 10
Los Angeles, CA Held at the Hatekayama Gallery in Downtown, Los Angeles, the Malaya Project presented their first public exhibit on Oct. 10, 2013. Denny Tuazon (photographer) and Gregory Pacificar (filmmaker), Filipino-Americans, collaborated with Fil-Am Arts and Barangay LA. The Malaya Project is ongoing photography series highlighting and documenting the lives of Filipino-American LGBTQ. Filipino-American mom, Carol (of SGV API PFLAG) came to support her Filipino/a "sons and daughters". |
Models of Pride Conference: Oct. 19
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Q & A Spaces API Equality LA Website Launch: Oct. 21 Los Angeles, CA
Of SGV API PFLAG, parents Carol Mannion, Marsha Aizumi, Harold and Ellen Kameya contributed their personal stories about when their child came out.
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Q&A Space began as a story collection project during Hertz Alegrio's and Shelly Chen's internship at API Equality-LA in the summer of 2012. Since then, in an effort to create more accessible, culturally relevant resources for the Asian Pacific Islander (API) LGBT community (especially youth), API Equality-LA has been working to develop the project into a “Coming Out Website” specifically designed for those who identify as API and LGBT. Q&A Space is the first website of its kind, with in-language fact sheets for parents, community resources for youth, multi-media advice and stories from the API LGBT community, and more.
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PFLAG National Convention
Oct. 24 - 27, 2013 Washington, DC
The 2013 PFLAG National Convention theme is: "One Voice Can Change The World: Honor the Legacy, Inspire the Future". The convention was held in Washington DC's Marriott Mayflower Renaissance Hotel fOct. 24-27. The conference included Lobby Day on Oct. 24, over 40 workshops delivered by PFLAG chapters across the nation, an awards dinner, and 3 plenary sessions. Representing SGV API PFLAG at the convention was Marsha Aizumi and Carol Mannion. We thank PFLAG-Pasadena for helping make our chapter's representation possible!
A panel/workshop on "Establishing and Maintaining Culturally-Inclusive and Specific Spaces" was presented by Marsha Aizumi, Carol Mannion, Clara Yoon (API Project/PFLAG NYC), and Ben de Guzman (NQAPIA) on Oct. 27th.
Oct. 24 - 27, 2013 Washington, DC
The 2013 PFLAG National Convention theme is: "One Voice Can Change The World: Honor the Legacy, Inspire the Future". The convention was held in Washington DC's Marriott Mayflower Renaissance Hotel fOct. 24-27. The conference included Lobby Day on Oct. 24, over 40 workshops delivered by PFLAG chapters across the nation, an awards dinner, and 3 plenary sessions. Representing SGV API PFLAG at the convention was Marsha Aizumi and Carol Mannion. We thank PFLAG-Pasadena for helping make our chapter's representation possible!
A panel/workshop on "Establishing and Maintaining Culturally-Inclusive and Specific Spaces" was presented by Marsha Aizumi, Carol Mannion, Clara Yoon (API Project/PFLAG NYC), and Ben de Guzman (NQAPIA) on Oct. 27th.