Author: Lavender Phoenix

10K 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 10K for $10K! Part of being our whole selves includes taking care of our

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The 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 and colleagues, I have survived and live to tell the tale. I’ve only recently come

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WESLEY 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 lead the healing of the pain and suffering of LGBTQ people within the church as

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10K for $10K Community bRUNch! (SUN, 11/24/13)

We believe that community wellness and personal well-being go hand in hand, which is why we’re launching our 10k for $10k Campaign.  API Equality – Northern California staff, leaders, and supporters will run the inaugural Berkeley Half Marathon while raising money to support our work of making sure that LGBT API people feel safe, valued,

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Sending off our 2013 interns

Summer Intern 2010 Current Steering Committee  Thank you to everyone who celebrated our fourth wave of amazing interns! With a packed community room filled with friends and family, the interns and staff shared their appreciations and the value of LGBTQ API advocacy and visibility work. When the interns shared their reflections of the summer,  it

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LGBTQ IMMIGRATION PANEL | St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church | September 12th: 6pm-8pm

For over three months API Equality – Northern California has partnered with ASPIRE (Asian Students Promoting Immigrant Rights Through Education) to educate the public on fair and humane immigration reform. As an end-of-summer event, we wanted to gather our community partners and find ways to highlight the intersections of LGBTQ and Immigration identity. Further, we

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