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AQUA | San Francisco State University
Asians & Queers United for Awareness (AQUA) aims to create a supportive environment for Queer Asians (Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Downe and any other Sexually Flexible folks) to be who they are, empower and vitalize the Queer Asian community by cultivating close and strong connections among the members of this community and raise awareness about Queer Asians in the Asian community and the Queer community.

Queer & Asian | San Jose State University
Q&A at SJSU is a student organization designed to encourage students to raise positive awareness of Queer and Asian communities in the SJSU campus. Q&A is not limited to LGBTQQIA and APII students but welcomes all to its meetings and events. Our primary goals are to reach out and provide a safe space for students to come together to interact, learn, discuss issues, and provide relief and encouragement for its members.

Queer & Asian | Stanford University
Asians and Pacific Islanders at Stanford have often lacked visibility within the LGBTQ community, and conversely, LGBTQ members and issues have often been invisible within the API community. With this queer Asian group, we hope to promote racial and ethnic diversity within the larger gay community as well as combat homophobia among Asian-Americans. Q&A is building a queer, Asian safe-space via bi-monthly meetings (at the Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Community Center and the Asian American Activities Center), trips to the city, movie outings, and quarterly dinners.

Cal Queer & Asian | UC Berkeley
Cal Q&A was founded a decade ago on the UC Berkeley campus as a student organization dedicated to the intersectionality of the queer and Asian identities. Through weekly meetings and monthly events, Cal Q&A acts as a safe space, social group, and support network for any and every student on the UC Berkeley campus. It is the largest club on campus that deals with the intersection of race and sexuality, and Cal Q&A works with many community organizations to strengthen both the Queer and Asian communities. Cal Q&A is also the host of the National Queer & Asian Conference. calqanda@gmail.com

Asian Pacific Islander Queers (APIQ) | @ UC Davis
APIQ is a support group for individuals who identify as both API (Asian Pacific Islander) and LGBTQQI. We hold discussion meetings to talk about unique and pertinent issues that APIQs face. We also hold socials, open sessions, workshops, awareness weeks, and other events to enrich and educate the UC Davis campus and community. Ultimately, APIQ's ongoing goal is to provide a supportive family for API Queers and to foster a more accepting environment by increasing public awareness.


CA - EAST BAY

Network on Religion and Justice
The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people (NRJ-API-LGBT) is a culturally respectful, LGBT-affirming, spiritually grounded, justice seeking network of API-LGBT organizations and individuals, their congregations, family and friends working to nurture and support efforts toward a fully LGBT-inclusive Asian and Pacific Islander Christian community.

The Pacific Center
The Pacific Center is an award winning, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community center based in Berkeley, CA serving the East Bay and Greater Bay Area. Through professional counseling, groups, community events, and advocacy, Pacific Center works to foster and enhance the well-being and self-respect of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

CA - SAN FRANCISCO

APIQWTC
APIQWTC (Asian Pacific Islander Queer women and Transgender Coalition was formed in Feb of 1999 as a means of networking & communicating among Bay Area Asian & Pacific Islander queer women's and transgender people's organizations and constituencies. Formerly, APIQWTC was Asian Pacific Sisters (APS) and a part of Asian Pacific Lesbians and Bisexuals Network (APLBN).

API Equality
API Equality is committed to working in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community in California and nationally for equal marriage rights, fair treatment, and overall acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Working in collaboration with our local partners, API Equality-LA and API Equality-SF, we engage in public education, community organizing, and legal and legislative advocacy to achieve our goals.

AQU25A
AQU25A (Asians & Pacific Islanders, Queer & Questioning, 25 and Under, All Together) is a group for and run by queer, trans, & questioning Asians, Pacific Islanders, and hapas 25 and under! We hold drop-ins, gatherings, picnics, groups, workshops, scholarships, individual counseling, a peer leadership program, parties, dances, trips, retreats, and other rad activities throughout the year.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Our mission is to educate, support, empower and advocate for Asian and Pacific Islander communities - particularly Asian & Pacific Islander's living with, or at-risk for, HIV/AIDS.

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA)
The Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) in San Francisco Bay Area, is an organization dedicated to furthering the interests of gay & bisexual Asian/Pacific Islanders by creating awareness, by developing a positive collective identity and by establishing a supportive community.

Gay Men's Buddhist Sangha
We seek to introduce the teachings of the Buddha to gay men in such a way that we honor and respect all beings and where they are in their lives, and help them to preserve a healthy and positive self-image particularly about their sexuality.We strive to accept everyone as they are and offer to those who have an interest, an explanation of the path of Buddha, the Dharma, for them to evaluate and see if it is applicable to their way of living.

Out4Immigration
We are a volunteer grassroots organization that addresses the widespread discriminatory impact of U.S. immigration laws on the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and HIV+ people and their families through education, outreach, advocacy and the maintenance of a resource and support network.

Trikone
Trikone is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of South Asian descent. Founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Trikone is the first group of its kind in the world. South Asians affiliated with Trikone trace their ethnicities to one of the following places: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet.

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
QWOCMAP promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films and videos that increase the visibility of queer women of color, authentically reflect our life stories, and address the vital social justice issues that concern our communities. QWOCMAP provides professional training, equipment, screening opportunities and resources free of charge to guarantee full access to our traditionally underserved community, particularly low-income and immigrant queer women of color.

Women of Color Resource Center
Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.

Women of Trikone
For the last few years, many women from the SF/Bay Area have expressed the need for more events for lesbian/bi-sexual/queer South Asian women. In the past, there have been regular events at bars, hosted potlucks and movie nights. We have brought this Back to the Bay! Women-of-Trikone is a list-serve for queer women of South Asian descent from the San Francisco Bay Area interested in building a strong community, engaging in discussions, networking, sharing news and advertising events. Allies who identify as women are welcome as well. The intent of this group is to build a strong community, engage in meaningful discussions, network with each other and other groups/organizations, share news and organize/advertise events that aim to improve our lives.

CA - SOUTH BAY

API Family Pride
The mission of Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride is to end the isolation of Asian and Pacific Islander families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members through support, education, and dialog. Our vision is the recognition and acceptance among Asian and Pacific islander families of the sexual and gender diversity within our cultures.

South Bay Queer & Asian
The mission of South Bay Queer and Asian (sbQA) is to be a leading social and support group that provides queer Asians and Pacific Islanders in the South Bay with a safe and fun place to come out and be comfortable with their sexual identity and ethnicity

Song That Radio
The first and only radio program for the VLGBT community. Our weekly program consists of community news, major concerns of the VLGBT, questions and answers on personal matters, special interviews, film reviews, poetry and prose by the VLGBT, music, etc.

NY - New York

Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York
Founded in 1990, the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) has provided a safe and supportive social, political, and educational space for gay, bisexual, and questioning men and transgender people of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. Meetings are held on the third Friday of each month at The LGBT Community Center. GAPIMNY is a membership-based organization whose goal is to empower Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander’s through a range of social, educational, peer-support, cultural, and political activities. We work in coalition with other community organizations to help educate the API ethnic and LGBT communities on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and health.

Dari Project
Dari Project is a Korean/Korean American resource group interested in disseminating stories about LGBTQ Koreans/Korean Americans/Korean adoptees.

Q-Wave
Q-Wave is an Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander volunteer run, grassroots organization for women and trans folks who live in the New York City area.


National Queer & Asian Conference
Berkeley, CA | Each year, UC Berkeley's annual Queer and Asian Conference seeks to challenge the status quo experience of the queer and Asian community, strengthening and advancing the notion of what it means to be Queer and Asian. We founded our first conference by addressing the historical silence of the Queer and Asian experience, inviting individuals to fill an empirical void with their voices and stories. We then began a process of breathing life into those stories - animating our collective narratives - our collective autobiography. And last year, we took an even bigger step - launching our stories and ourselves into larger society. Building on these foundations, this year, QACON 2011 strives to push our community even further—FOREFRONT.

QAPI National Conference
The QAPI National Conference seeks to network, organize, agitate, educate, and build the capacity of the nation's LGBTQ API communities. We expect to attract hundreds of queer Asians Americans, whose ancestral heritage has rootsin the Pacific Islands and/or Eastern, Central, South, and SoutheastAsian. Spread the word!

Queer People of Color Conference (QPOCC)
Each year the Queer People of Color Conference is hosted by different organizations with the theme of the conference changing as well. The 1st Annual QPOC Conference focused on "Exposing Our Institutionalizations and Challenging Tokenisms". The 2nd Annual QPOC Conference's theme was, "At the Crossroads of Age, Race, and Sexuality". Lastly, the 3rd Annual QPOC Conference's theme was " (re)Generations of Solidarity: Shifting Lenses and Igniting Hearts." The 4th theme was, "Building Communities Through Art, Action, and Resistance."

Queer Pin@y Conference
QPC is an annual conference that brings together queer Pilipino and Pilipino Americans and their allies to engage issues relevant to our communities, through workshops, dialogue, art, community building, and celebration. Samahang Pilipino at UCLA is honored to host the 10 year anniversary of Queer Pin@y (pronounced Pinay/Pinoy) Conference since its origination at UCLA in 1999 with "On the Verge." This year's theme "Bring It Back" has a double meaning: to bring it back to 1999 to see how far we as a queer Pin@y community have progressed, and to bring back our knowledge and consciousness to our respective spaces and communities.


The Tang Scholarship
Are you an API GLBT youth going to college/graduate school or know of one? Here's a chance to help making your education dreams come true. The Tang Scholarship helps API GLBT youth proudly achieving his/her educational pursuits and dreams without shame with a scholarship award of up to $15,000/year. This scholarship is renewable for a maximum of three years (a total of four years) if the student annually meets the renewal requirements. Download the Application!

APIQWTC Scholarship
APIQWTC (Asian Pacific Islander Queer and Transgender Community) will be awarding scholarships of $400 to two Asian/Pacific Islander lesbian, bisexual, or queer women or transgender individuals pursuing technical/professional training or an undergraduate/graduate degree. High school seniors pursuing further education or training in fall 2009 are also eligible to apply. Applicants should demonstrate academic commitment as well as community involvement. Information here!

George Choy Memorial / GAPA Scholarship
The purpose of the George Choy Memorial / Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) Scholarship is to provide financial assistance to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (l/g/b/t) Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) who are in the process of applying to, or are currently attending, a post-secondary institution. The maximum grant award is currently $1000. Information here!