VIDEOS
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2018 Marsha & Aiden Aizumi
2016 Okaeri Conference
Interview with John & Minsook Brady
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LGBTQ Asian American San Gabriel Valley Stories
Interview with Sung & Kai Tse
What PFLAG has meant to Marsha's Journey:
PFLAG mom, Marsha Aizumi, shares about how PFLAG has helped her and what it means to be a PFLAG mom.
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A Mother and Son's Activism for Transgender Awareness
Featuring Marsha Aizumi and her son, Aiden.
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On Faith Communities
The following documentary films Anyone and Everyone and In God's House feature Harold and Ellen Kameya:
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A Parent's Perspective:
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"Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis |
Her Beloved Brother's Wedding
She is a young Chinese-American, eldest daughter with a younger brother who is gay. She started attending PFLAG support groups, including SGV API PFLAG. Her love and respect for both her brother and her parents prompted her to attend PFLAG meetings. It was important for her to serve as the "bridge" to the cultural divide between the two generations. This wedding video is a very special milestone in her brother, David's life. She is so very proud to share the event of her brother finding love, happiness, and commitment.
Multi-lingual Videos/ PSAs
The Asian Pride Project, based in New York City, participated during the 2012 National Queer Asian Pacific Alliance Conference in Washington, D.C. Parent participants from different parts of the nation delivered public service announcements and messages in their own Asian language that was addressed to other parents and families of API LGBT. Currently, these videos are in the editing phase. Bilingual messages in Chinese and Tagalog are among the featured. The Asian Pride Project is an online space to share stories and experiences with each other, in all languages, in pictures, sounds, and words.
Asian Pride Project Recognized by White House
In April 2012, the steering committee of the Asian Pride Project, including honorees Suma Reddy (second from left) and Elena Chang (third from right) were honored by the White House as LGBT activists in the "Champions for Change" Initiative for their work to promote LGBT acceptance. They’re supporting their peers navigating family, culture, and language differences by sharing their experiences online on the Asian Pride Project.
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Deanna Cheng speaking about her unconditional love
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The Rev. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng is the Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a contributor to the Religion and the Gay Voices sections of the Huffington Post, and he has served as an ordained minister with the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) for over a decade.
Cheng is the founder and coordinator of Queer Asian Spirit, an international and interfaith network of queer people of Asian descent and allies who are interested in religious and spiritual issues. He is a member of the Emerging Queer Asian Religion Scholars group (EQARS), and he has also spoken at the 2009 and 2012 national conferences of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA). Cheng has conducted workshops and retreats for the queer Asian communities in Boston, Hong Kong, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Cheng’s research interests relate to the intersections of sexuality, race, ethics, and theology. His first book, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, provides an accessible guide to queer theology. His subsequent book,From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ, reclaims the doctrines of sin and grace for queer people and their allies who have been wounded by such doctrines in the past. Most recently, Cheng published Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit, which is the first book that brings together theological voices from various queer of color communities. Cheng holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College. For more information about him, please see his website at: http://www.patrickcheng.net. |
"I Am" Screening and Panel Discussion Event:
Sponsored by API Equality LA, Satrang, and the South Asian Network, a free community event was held July 2012 in the city of Artesia, CA, which is a predominantly Indian community.
I Am chronicles the journey of an Indian lesbian filmmaker who returns to Delhi, eleven years later, to re-open what was once home, and finally confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to. As she meets and speaks to parents of other gay and lesbian Indians, she pieces together the fabric of what family truly means, in a landscape where being gay was until recently a criminal and punishable offense.
I Am chronicles the journey of an Indian lesbian filmmaker who returns to Delhi, eleven years later, to re-open what was once home, and finally confronts the loss of her mother whom she never came out to. As she meets and speaks to parents of other gay and lesbian Indians, she pieces together the fabric of what family truly means, in a landscape where being gay was until recently a criminal and punishable offense.
Kababayan LA talks with NQAPIA Co-Director on Filipino-American voice
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2012 NQAPIA National Conference
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On Coming Out: Former Seattle City Councilwoman's Last Crusade
In August 2012, the following televised and online news article featured a former city councilwoman, Cheryl Chow. Cheryl Chow was diagnosed with brain cancer and does not have much time left, but the former teacher, principal, Seattle City Council Member and School Board Member has one more task to do - she wants to come out. In the interview below, she advises young people not to wait as long as she did.
apifamilypride.org
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Coming Out, Coming Home was first distributed in 1996 to help API families with LGBT members in their coming out process and respecting the privacy of each home. The film features interviews with API parents and their LGBT children who relate their struggles with acceptance and coming out.
This project is to update the film to better reflect the sexual, gender, and ethnic diversity of today's Asian-American community. The update will feature families with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning children from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian, and Vietnamese families. Belinda Dronkers-Laureta, Director of API Family Pride. |
Coming Out, Coming Home (Part 1)
- by API Family Pride |
First Gay Rights PSA Released in China
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Filmmaker Quentin Lee has released China's first-ever pro-LGBT PSA on QueerComrades.com with the help of a volunteer cast and crew. The PSA has been made to stream on mobile devices and was produced with the help of Xiaogang Wei, the founder of China's first AIDS walk.
The PSA, created in a short fictional format, follows a gay man and a lesbian who decide to marry one another to appease the woman's conservative parents. The orchestration of fake marriages as a way to escape societal pressure is a story all-too-common within China's LGBT community. Reportedly, an estimated 70 percent of all gay men in China marry women, resulting in about 16 million women who are now labelled 'tongqi', which would loosely translate to 'homo-wife'. Homosexuality is still very controversial in China (it was listed as a mental illness until 2001) and many people enter into heterosexual marriages just to appease their families and to have children. To read more, view: http://shanghaiist.com/tags/gayrights_
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