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  • Living and Leaving a Legacy: Intergenerational Conversations with LGBTQ APIsLiving and Leaving a Legacy: Intergenerational Conversations with LGBTQ APIs
    Every year, Stanford University holds the Listen to the Silence conference, a conference that brings together students from the Bay Area and provides a platform for exploring Asian Pacific Islander issues and activism. On January 18th, API Equality – Northern ...
  • Toby WuToby Wu
    TOBY WU is a gay Chinese American from New York City. He moved to the Bay Area over 3 years ago to study at Stanford’s Teacher Education Program and is now a first grade teacher at a new charter school ...
  • January 2014 Newsletter
    Our 2014 Commitment At API Equality – Northern California, we believe it is possible for our work to be driven and funded by our community, and true sustainability is our 2014 New Year’s resolution. In 2013, over 400 of you—volunteers and ...
  • PRESS RELEASE: Referendum on AB1266 Moves to Full Count
    We’ve been at the edge of our seats with a pressing issue affecting transgender student rights in California. Our friends at the Support All Students Coalition sent out the following press release today regarding the AB 1266 Referendum, which if passed, ...
  • Our 2014 CommitmentOur 2014 Commitment
    At API Equality – Northern California, we believe it is possible for our work to be driven and funded by our community, and true sustainability is our 2014 New Year’s resolution. In 2013, over 400 of you—volunteers and supporters–contributed to our work by giving ...
  • Join our Steering CommitteeJoin our Steering Committee
    API Equality – Northern California is looking for daring, dedicated, and enthusiastic people who have a passion for social justice and the LGBTQ API community to join our Steering Committee. Steering Committee members work as a team to make key ...
  • Betty CaoBetty Cao
    BETTY CAO is a 1.5 generation Chinese American who immigrated to New York at the age of six. Currently, Betty is a Community Organizer at Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) providing leadership development for Chinese immigrant parents on ways to ...
  • December 2013 Newsletter
    Whoo-hoo! We are proud to announce that on November 24th, 2013 the API Equality – Northern California team successfully ran 10K for $10K. For some of us, this was our first race ever. For others, this was our first time fundraising and ...
  • Trikone’s Statement on the Indian Supreme Court Decision, Recriminalizing LGBTQ PeoplesTrikone's Statement on the Indian Supreme Court Decision, Recriminalizing LGBTQ Peoples
    Recently, the Indian Supreme Court reactivated Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, criminalizing LGBTQ individuals in the country. We stand with Indian LGBTQ activists and allies who work to oppose this oppressive section of the Constitution. Trikone, a non-profit ...
  • A Showcase of Faith – A Reflection by Reverend NobuakiA Showcase of Faith - A Reflection by Reverend Nobuaki
    I would like, first of all, to express my profound gratitude to those who made the evening’s program possible. I felt the entire evening was as enjoyable as intense and powerful. My wife and I attended the event primarily because we ...
  • Guest Post: When Coming Out Doesn’t Always Feel Like Letting People In: Bisexual Adoptee Identity, Invisibility, and Inclusivity in Asian American ActivismGuest Post: When Coming Out Doesn't Always Feel Like Letting People In: Bisexual Adoptee Identity, Invisibility, and Inclusivity in Asian American Activism
     (Note: This post was originally posted at Gazillion Voices) It’s a sunny summer day in Insadong, an art gallery and souvenir shop-filled neighborhood in central Seoul. I’m inquiring about prices with a shop owner as we stumble over each other’s languages, and to ...
  • Trans Day of RemembranceTrans Day of Remembrance
    for all trans* people who are subjected to verbal and physical harassment and emotional and physical violence: We matter! For all trans* people who are continually being misnamed and referred to by inappropriate pronouns just because some cisgender people refuse ...
  • A Celebration of API LGBTQ & Allies’ Stories of FaithA Celebration of API LGBTQ & Allies' Stories of Faith
    We, the members of the Pink Elephant Project have gathered monthly since August to share and explore our stories of faith as Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ and allies. Like Vince, some of us have pieced together our faith stories for the first time. Some ...
  • Our Family, Our Voices: Film Night & Community RoundtableOur Family, Our Voices: Film Night & Community Roundtable
    We are co-sponsoring Our Family, Our Voices: Film Night & Community Roundtable! Come to a screening of a new LGBTQ Immigration storytelling project at 6PM, Thursday, November 21 at the Redstone Building. Refreshments and childcare provided with free registration. Click here ...
  • October Newsletter
    One Story at a Time Vince Crisotomo, a participant of the Pink Elephant Project reflects on our September 21st storytelling and conversations training. “I’ve told my story hundreds of times and the only thing that changes is me. Connecting my story to ...
  • November is Volunteer Appreciation Month!November is Volunteer Appreciation Month!
    Join our runners after the Berkeley Half Marathon/10K for a community brunch in West Berkeley. Everyone is invited to celebrate a year of wellness for ourselves, our community, and our organization! This is also a special moment for us to ...
  • What’s next?What's next?
    It has been quite a year. The Supreme Court ruled in our favor on DOMA and Prop 8, Governor Jerry Brown signed the historic School Success and Opportunity Act (AB 1266) into law, and immigration reform has been quite the ...
  • 10K for $10K Community Brunch10K for $10K Community Brunch
    Join our runners after the Berkeley Half Marathon/10K for a community brunch in West Berkeley. Everyone is invited to celebrate a year of wellness for ourselves, our community, and our organization! RSVP here.  Our team of 12 is gearing up to run ...
  • The Need to BeThe Need to Be
    My name is Vincent Anthony Crisostomo. I am a 52-year-old Gay Chamorro Man and I have been living with HIV for over 26 years.  I was diagnosed with AIDS, a potentially fatal condition, in 1995.  Unlike many of my friends ...
  • WESLEY UMC SAN JOSE CELEBRATES MILESTONE DECISION TO BE A RECONCILING CHURCHWESLEY UMC SAN JOSE CELEBRATES MILESTONE DECISION TO BE A RECONCILING CHURCH
    We’re proud to celebrate a milestone decision made from Wesley United Methodist Church, a Japanese-American church in San Jose, CA. On Monday, October 21, 2013, they unanimously voted to become a “reconciling congregation,” committing themselves to reconciliation in order to ...