NQAPIA Newsletter 2016

NQAPIA The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

2016

Remembrance, Loss & Resilience

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e know that these are uncertain and likely to be regressive times. Nevertheless, NQAPIA will continue our work to build a world where all Asian Americans, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders (API) are fully accepted in their homes, families, jobs, places of worship and community regardless of their sexual orientation or gender-identity.

NQAPIA is building a new generation of LGBT API leaders, creating a vibrant network of activists, building allyship and the capacity of local organizations, protecting the rights of immigrants, speaking out against police misconduct, and increasing the visibility of LGBT APIs. Thank you for your support.

THANK YOU

NQAPIA Supporters

Corporate Supporters

• Alphawood Foundation • Anonymous • API Dream Team Giving Circle • Arcus Foundation • CJ Huang Foundation • David Bohnett Foundation • Dinner Guys Giving Circle • Proteus Fund • Security & Rights Collaborative • Unbound Philanthropies • Walter and Evelyn Haas, Jr. Fund • Wild Geese Foundation

• 3M Legal • Harrah’s New Orleans • McDermott Will & Emery LLP • Prudential • Public Impact • Toyota Financial Services • The Veng Group • Verizon

Media Sponsor • Comcast/NBC Universal

Nonprofit Supporters • Grindr for Equaity • Human Rights Campaign (HRC) • National LGBTQ Task Force • OCA APA Advocate Greater • Houston Chapter • Project by Project

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NQAPIA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Vivian Fried-Chung, Palo Alto, CA – Co-Chair Stan Fong, Atlanta, GA – Treasurer Shivana Jorawar, Washington, DC Kham Moua, Washington, DC – Secretary Kevin Lam, Boston, MA Julia Rhee, San Francisco, CA Eri Oura, Oakland, CA / Honolulu, HI – Co-Chair Andrew Chou, New Orleans, LA Amanda Zhang, Madison, WI

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Photo Credits: Corky Lee (Catalyst dinners), Tracy Nguyen (summit/attorney reception SF), Tetsuro Takehana (family acceptance Japan), Lanny Li (attorney reception NY), Marzena Zukowska, Nate Atwell, Khadija Mehter (9/11 action DC)

Promoting Family Acceptance First-Ever LGBT Ads Air on Major Asian Television Networks and Multi-City Workshop Tour For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, NQAPIA, in partnership with the Asian Pride Project, API PFLAG San Gabriel Valley, Out Loud Families, PFLAG NYC API Project, and the Veng Group, launched a ground-breaking Family Acceptance Campaign. It featured: • Paid commercials on major Asian international channels reaching 18 million households • Workshops in 12 major cities featuring parents telling their stories of struggle, shame, love and acceptance of their LGBT kids • Translated leaflets dispelling common myths and misconceptions in 20 Asian languages and scripts.

The multilingual TV ads, co-produced by the Asian Pride Project and NQAPIA, ran in June for LGBT Pride Month on SinoVision (Chinese), ZeeTV (South Asian), Television Korea 24 (TVK), Mnet America and MyxTV.

With the financial support of The API Dream Team Giving Circle, we launched a National Speaker’s Bureau that trained 22 parents to tell their stories. Some of the API parents and children who sharedtheir stories included: • Joanne Lee: Mother of Skyler, a trans teen in Wisconsin who committed suicide because Skyler felt a lack of family support.

• Pastor Danilo Cortez: A Southern Baptist minister from Los Angeles who now works to change anti-LGBT church policy as his gay son came out to him.

• Marsha Aizumi: Mother of trans son from Pasadena.

• Tevin Ith: Out-of-closet college student and member of PrYSM, a queer Southeast Asian and youth of color organization.

The parents gave a series of workshops that offered culturally appropriate peer-support and practical steps to empower API parents to support their LGBT children in the coming-out process. Host cities included Washington, DC; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Atlanta; New Orleans, Seattle; Boston; Los Angeles, Garden Grove, CA. NQAPIA acknowledges the generous financial support of Comcast/NBC Universal, CJ Huang Foundation, Arcus Foundation, and the API Dream Team Giving Circle.

National Leadership Summit Building a Queer API Movement For Asian Pacific American NQAPIA is investing in a new generation of LGBT API leaders, who are creating a vibrant network of activists, and building the capacity of their local LGBT API groups.

NQAPIA trained 115 leaders of LGBT API organizations at our National Leadership Summit in New Orleans in August, locally hosted by VAYLA-NO. Sessions included organizational development, grassroots and foundation fundraising, conflict resolution, direction action organizing, and immigrants’ rights, racial justice and national security post Orlando. There were special strategy meetings to plan for DesiQ and a national Korean Conference, as well as a train the trainer training for NQAPIA’s new Trans Justice Curriculum.

THANK YOU

Summit Diamond Sponsors

Summit Gold Sponsors

Summit Silver Sponsors

Comcast/NBC Universal David Bohnett Foundation Verizon Proteus Fund - Security & Rights Collaborative Weston Milliken

Harrah’s New Orleans National LGBTQ Task Force

Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Liberty Hill Foundation Ken Ohashi

The Summit featured NQAPIA’s Community Catalyst awards for member groups to celebrate local achievements.

• Community Building Award - Viet Rainbow of Orange County (VROC) • Membership Retention and/or Growth Award - Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) • LGBTQ Visibility Award – UTOPIA and API Queer Sacramento Coalition (APIQSC) • Community Education Award - KhushDC • Advocacy Award - Invisible to Invincible: API Pride of Chicago (i2i) • Best #Redefine Security Week of Action - API Equality-Northern California • Best Family Acceptance Workshop – Pride Asia & Trikone-Northwest ( joint) • NQAPIA Partnership Award - Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance (QAPA) & API Equality Northern California (tie) • Special Recognitions - API PFLAG San Gabriel Valley & Alice Y. Hom • NQAPIA Board Most Valuable Player – Kevin Lam

Summit Supporters

Thank you to volunteers:

A&PI Wellness Center API PFLAG San Gabriel Valley Horizons Foundation Office of Minority Health Resource Center / DHHS Saltwater Training

Minh Nguyen, Erica Buher, MLin, Tracy Nguyen (Photographer), and the APIENC interns.

Fighting for Immigrants’ Rights #StopProfilingUs These are uncertain times but NQAPIA has been relentless in fighting for immigrants’ rights at the intersection of race and queerness. NQAPIA has been urging that the federal government prohibit profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, language, sexual orientation and gender-identity in immigration enforcement and national security.

Our Demands NQAPIA is pressing the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue enforceable guidance banning profiling. NQAPIA’s demands are: (1) DHS, ICE, and all immigration enforcement agencies define and prohibit profiling; (2) institute a clear process to address allegations of profiling; and (3) recourse so when inappropriate profiling is used, any resulting detention or deportation is deemed improper and should be revoked, as is already done in criminal proceedings where wrongfully obtained evidence is suppressed.

NQAPIA hand-delivered a letter co-signed with over 40 national and local community organizations to DHS Deputy Secretary Mayorkas. And then delivered thousand of postcards signed by LGBT APIs and allies to DHS Secretary Johnson. With the help of pro bono lawyers from 3M, NQAPIA developed legal language on proposed guidance and delivered it to President Obama’s LGBT, API, and Muslim Liaisons, and Counsel for his Domestic Security Council.

Week of Action In May, NQAPIA’s #RedefineSecurity Week of Action engaged 120 people in 8 Cities to re-imagine safety in API communities. Law enforcement agencies routinely profile South Asians and Muslims as terrorists, Southeast Asians as gang members and transgender people, especially transgender women, to heightened scrutiny. Cities and partnering organizations were: • Los Angeles Satrang, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition • Chicago i2i, Trikone Chicago • Boston QAPA, NAPAWF Boston, Asian American Writers’ Workshop

• Bay Area APIENC, ASPIRE, Asian Prisoner Support Committee, ASATA • Seattle Trikone NW, API Chaya • New York SALGA NYC, Anti-Violence Project

• DC KhushDC, MASGD Attendees shared their personal stories of policing and profiling. In the Bay Area, participants wrote letters to 32 API people in prison or detention centers.

9/11 Action in the Nation’s Capital On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, NQAPIA and KhushDC organized a performative action to end 15 years of profiling and policing in LGBT Muslim, South Asian and Black communities. Over 60 protesters took over a street intersection in the “gayborhood” for over two hours. Protesters chanted, “Hey hey, ho ho racial profiling has got to go. State violence has got to go!” Earlier in the day, 20 people created “checkpoints” in some of the busiest neighborhoods of Washington, DC for two hours: Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Dupont Circle and 14th and U St. These checkpoints replicated the kinds of profiling, policing and interrogation that Muslims and those perceived as Muslim go through on a regular basis – at the border, at TSA, in daily life – for simply wearing a backpack, having a phone in thier pocket, or no reason at all.

Losing Expansions at the U.S. Supreme Court On June 23, a badly divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 4-4 decision in the case U.S. v Texas, which effectively blocked President Obama’s Executive Actions on immigration to expand the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and create a new program for parents (DAPA). With the pro bono legal assistance of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, NQAPIA had filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief illustrating the impact of the immigration programs on the lives of LGBT people. The programs could have helped up to 5 million undocumented immigrants, including 400,000 Asians, to be free from deportation and gain work authorization. An estimated 267,000 undocumented immigrants are LGBT, of which a disproportionate share is API.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Fortunately, the original DACA program remained unaffected, and more than 100,000 undocumented Asian Americans remain potentially eligible for this program, but have not yet applied. More information about DACA and legal providers can be found at NQAPIA’s website. http://www.nqapia.org/wpp/daca-legal-assistance/

Remembering Orlando June was a tough month for us all. When we were supposed to be celebrating our pride, the tragic killing at Pulse nightclub sent a chilling shockwave throughout our community. NQAPIA responded quickly to support our community and simultaneously respond to some of the hateful rhetoric.

For Support, we publicized the Desi lgbtQ Helpline at 908-FOR-DEQH (908-367-3374) for free, confidential, culturally sensitive peer support, information and resources for LQBTQ South Asians.

Our Parents Showed their Love. “As Asian American parents who love our LGBT kids, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, the Latina/o community, and Muslim families. We are proud of our LGBT children. This world is not 100% safe and our children deserve to live their lives fully without hatred and bigotry. Our children need our unconditional love and our shoulders to cry on. And if you are not out to your parents, we are also here. From mothers Clara Yoon, Laurin Mayeno, and Marsha Aizumi.

People Stood Up with NQAPIA’s Statement. “We send our love to the countless people affected by the tragedy. It is difficult to celebrate, when we are, yet again, questioning our safety, especially for queer and trans* people of color. Rhetoric and policies that blame Muslims or the specter of radical Islam will not make is safer. We reject the popular narrative that Islam or the Muslim community as a whole is homophobic and transphobic. We must resist attempts to divide and conquer us. We ask that people come together to heal and to create systems and spaces where all members of our community feel secure, safe, and able to be their full selves.”

And We Took Action. We responded to some of the hateful rhetoric by reaching out to the campaigns of both Presidential candidates, congressional leaders and The White House. In August,we met with President Obama’s LGBT, API, and Muslim Liaisons. Our work around LGBT acceptance and advocacy against profiling in immigration enforcement and national security is more important than ever.

Community Catalyst Awards Early in 2016, NQAPIA hosted 3 Community Catalyst Awards banquet dinners to celebrate those who have improved the lives of LGBT APIs. At each dinner, we were joined by community leaders, movement thinkers and agitators, parents and youngsters, members of local queer API groups, allies, and many of old friends.

Proceeds supported leaders of local LGBT API organizations to attend NQAPIA’s National Summit and capacity building training.

New York Catalyst Awards MARCH 12 THE HONOREES INCLUDED:

Actor Conrad Ricamora from ABC’s “How to Get Away With Murder” who took a night off from his Broadway show “The King and I” to join us. His story of growing up in the South reminded us of the dearth of LGBT API role models in the media.

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University has long understood intersectionality and included queerness in all of their frames and programs well before “queer” was reclaimed.

Faisal Alam has been bringing forth the stories, struggles, and political commentary of Queer Muslims for nearly two decades. He challenged us all to speak out againstIslamaphobia especially in the current political climate.

Poongmul Movement Builders performed traditional Korean drumming and Sulia Matagi shared her Tongan-Samoan heritage through song and ukulele. Congresswomen Grace Meng and Councilman Danny Dromm made special appearances. Emcee Daniel K. Isaac brought so much humor. Kit Yan shared his moving story as an out trans artist and helped raise over $13,000.

NY Community Catalyst Sponsors Dai & Associates, PC Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GHMC) National LGBTQ Task Force UFC: Korean Style Fried Chicken and Craft Beers Wynn J. Salisch

NY Catalyst Host Committee Anonymous Amit Bagga Aries Liao and Piali Mukejee Asian American Impact Fund Asian Women’s Giving Circle Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU APICHA API Project at PFLAG NYC Aya Yabe and Dr. Mari Morimoto, in honor of LGBT Youth Japan Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) Clara Yoon Crew Fondue Lee Dennis M. Quinio, Esq. Eli Rhee Emy & Rudy Magpantay

Faisal Alam

NY Planning Committee Former GAPIMNY Steering Committee Members Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) Kit Yan and Melissa Li Lambda Legal Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens (LGDCQ) Mark Ro Beyersdorf NYC Council Member Daniel Dromm Q-WAVE Resource Generation SALGA - NYC Shail Maingi Stephanie Hsu Tarab - NYC U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng Washington DC Catalyst Planning Committee

Apphia Kumar Stephanie Hsu Glenn D. Magpantay Eli Rhee Kit Yan Lakshman Kalasapudi Phil Ozaki Ryan Shen Graphic Designer: Billy Sungsub Choo

Washington DC Catalyst Awards APRIL 9 THE HONOREES INCLUDED:

Hector Vargas Executive Director of Gay & Lesbian Media Association and former White House AAPI Initiative Commissioner

Sapna Pandya Executive Director of Many Languages One Voice and former Khush-DC President

Sharon Wong former OCA Nat’l President and Deputy Director for Coordination & Policy in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion Other distinguished guests included David Do from the Mayor’s Office for API Affairs and DC City Councilmember LaRuby May. Special performances featured comedian Regie Cabico and hip-hop dancing by Culture Shock DC. The evening’s emcees Kingston Kodan and Dia Bùi brought so much love. Kham Moua shared his moving story of coming out as a gay man and helped raise over $8,600.

DC Community Catalyst Sponsors OCA Asian Pacific Advocates National LGBTQ Task Force Advocates for Youth

DC Catalyst Host Committee

DC Planning Committee

Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC) Soohyun Koo Shail Maingi Rosie Abriam OCA – Fans of Sharon Wong Khush - DC Janelle Wong and Gem Daus Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Greg Cendana Gay & Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) Ben de Guzman Asian & Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA DC)

Ben de Guzman Glenn D. Magpantay Kham Moua Shivana Jorawar Almas Haider Dia Bùi Mai Tran Gem Daus Graphic Designer: Dia Bùi

Boston Catalyst Awards MARCH 26 Jointly hosted with Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance (QAPA) and awarded:

Amit Dixit who has always been an out and proud gay Desi in all of his meetings, workshops, fundraisers, and panels, working with the Indian Ambassador, Bollywood actors, local politicians, or serving on nonprofits boards.

37 Years of Past QAPA Steering Committee Members QAPA is the nation’s oldest LGBT API organization, founded in 1979. SC members have kept QAPA alive and thriving to hold a special space for peer-support, social outings, politics, and education for our community in New England.

Attendees took action and signed nearly 250 postcards in support of the Massachusetts Transgender Public Accommodations Bill which was won in the summer.

Special performances by the powerful all-women Japanese Taiko Drumming group Genki Spark, and drag performances by Ms. Prodigy & Yune Neptune showed great pride. Emcee Tre’Andre Valetine brought so much delight. Binh Le shared her moving story of coming out to her mom as bisexual woman and was accompanied by her mom. She raised over $7,000 to support both QAPA and NQAPIA’s work.

Boston Catalyst Host Committee

Boston Community Catalyst Sponsors The Hanh Le Family Foundation Tufts Health Plan Eastern Bank National LGBTQ Task Force Holland & Knight LLP The Network la Red Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders Greater Boston PFLAG AIDS Action Law Office of Hema Sarang-Sieminski Janson Wu & Adam Levine Fran Hutchins and Laura Kalba Denys Alvarez Insight Psychotherapy Asian American Resource Workshop The Meeting Point

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition The Theater Offensive Boston Area Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Youth (BAGLY) Jen Tjia Molly Kiran Girton Suriya Jeyapalan Jay Wang & Joe Yau Andrew Li

Boston Planning Committee Chih-Wei Liang Binh Le Ethan Lu Gilbert Macabuag Glenn D. Magpantay Jenny Le Jonathan Yong Kevin Lam Maxwell Ng Xau Ying Ly

John and Virginia Ng Providence Youth Student Movement (PRYSM) Harvard Pilgrim Health Tien Le

LGBT Asian American/ South Asian Lawyers & Professionals Receptions On October 18, 25, and 27, in New York City, Washington DC, and San Francisco, over 150 people “came out” to celebrate the diversity within the LGBT and Asian American and South Asian communities.

Professionals in finance, tech, and consulting joined partners and associates at corporate firms, government attorneys, solo practitioners, small firms, and public interest lawyers for these back-to-back-to-back networking receptions in three cities. The events raised money for NQAPIA’s legal referral program for LGBT API undocumented immigrants, young people, and organizations.

At all three receptions, accomplished attorneys talked about the need for diversity and the importance of giving back. Their remarks were followed by special video screenings of NQAPIA’s family acceptance campaign and pro bono opportunities.

In New York City, trailblazer NYS Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan became the first Asian woman to preside in a NYS appellate court. She reflected on her 2005 decision in Hernandez v. Robles, 10 years before the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. She was the first trial judge in New York State and third trial judge in the country to rule in favor marriage equality.

In Washington, DC, Christopher Kang, the National Director of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, talked about his prior work as Senior Counsel to President Barack Obama where he worked to fulfill the President’s unprecedented commitment to diversifying the federal bench. This included appointing more people of color, women, and openly gay and lesbian people as judges than any President in history.

In San Francisco, recently inducted Judge Roger Chan talked about his transition to the San Francisco Superior Court after being Executive Director of the East Bay Children’s Law Offices where he led a team of attorneys and social workers in the representation of more than 2,000 children and youth every year in Alameda County.

Special thanks go to Baker & McKenzie in New York; McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, DC; and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco for hosting the receptions and to all the co-sponsors for making each event possible.

Elections 2016 For the 2016 Presidential elections NQAPIA developed • First-ever LGBT API Voter Guide, with translations in Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Vietnamese • Registered voters on-line and at local gay bars and clubs with APIA Vote and Rock the Vote • Mobilized volunteers to help AALDEF to protect our community’s right to vote

Financial Statement for 2016 INCOME

EXPENSES 65%

63%

Foundation Grants

Programs

25%

22%

Individual Contributions

Administration

10%

12%

Foundation Grants

Fundraising

CASH ACTIVITIES Revenues Foundation Grants Individual Contributions* Special Events InKind Donated Services Other Income Interest Income Total Revenues

Operating Expenses $342,140 $135,857 $53,626 $3,936

Program Administration Fundraising Total Expenses

$1,558 $467 $537,584

* Includes restricted revenues from savings reserves and money held in fiscal sponsorship.

$333,972 $119,701 $79,523 $533,196

About NQAPIA The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (APIs) organizations. NQAPIA builds the capacity of local LGBT API groups, develops leadership, promotes visibility, educates the community, invigorates grassroots organizing, and challenges anti-LGBT bias and racism.

NQAPIA CURRENT PROGRAMS Annual Leadership Summit of LGBT API Organizations This weekend long training focuses on networking, learning about current issues, sharing strategies, building local organizational infrastructure, and forging collaborative programs. Prior Summits were held in New Orleans (2016), Honolulu (2013), San Jose (2011), Chicago (2010), Denver (2008) and Oakland, CA (2005). In between, we host Regional Summits for the West Coast, Northeast, South, and Midwest.

Triennial National Conference This conference brings together grassroots LGBT API activists from across the nation. Prior national conferences were in Chicago in 2015 (350 attendees), Washington, DC in 2012 (350 attendees) and Seattle in 2009 (250 attendees). New York’s 2004 conference (400 attendees) laid the groundwork for NQAPIA’s initial convening. The next conference will be in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018.

LGBT Immigrants’ Rights & Racial Justice In collaboration with local LGBT API groups, we are spearheading an educational and advocacy campaign blending immigrants’ rights with racial justice that includes local actions, community forums, and media profiles featuring LGBT API immigrants.

Promoting Visibility NQAPIA promotes the visibility of LGBTs in the mainstream API community and of APIs in the broader LGBT community. This multilingual education campaign includes outreach to the Asian ethnic media and educational pieces translated into Asian languages.

Capacity Building Resources This includes a descriptive directory of all of the nation’s LGBT API groups, direct financial support, fiscal sponsorship, and special trainings/workshops.

A Voice in Current Issues NQAPIA ensures LGBT API engagement in current policy issues. NQAPIA is the only LGBT member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, the coalition of national API advocacy organizations.

And we add a racial justice lens to current LGBT issues.

NQAPIA MEMBER GROUPS Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander Organizations

PACIFIC NORTHWEST

MIDWEST

NEW ENGLAND

API Pride of Portland, OR Trikone - Northwest, Seattle, WA UTOPIA - Seattle, WA Project Q of API Chaya, Seattle, WA Pride Asia, Seattle, WA

Shades of Yellow (SOY), Minneapolis, MN Invisible to Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago (i2i), IL Trikone - Chicago, IL Freedom Inc., Madison, WI

Massachusetts Area South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), Boston, MA Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance (QAPA), Boston, MA

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA API Queer Sacramento Coalition (APIQSC) API Equality - Northern California, San Francisco, CA Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community (APIQWTC), Bay Area, CA Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), San Francisco, CA Network on Religion and Justice (NRJ) South Bay Queer and Asian, San Jose, CA Trikone, San Francisco, CA UTOPIA - San Francisco, CA

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA API Equality Los Angeles API PFLAG San Gabriel Valley, CA Barangay - Los Angeles, CA Satrang, Los Angeles, CA Koreans United for Equality (KUE), CA UTOPIA - San Diego, CA Viet Rainbow Orange County (VROC), CA Garden Grove, CA Malaya Project, Los Angeles, CA

THE SOUTH Trikone - Atlanta, GA Khush Texas, Austin, TX VAYLA - New Orleans, LA

PACIFIC ISLANDS Pride Marianas, Saipan Guam Alternative Lifestyle Association (GALA)

PARTNERS Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD) Desi lgbtQ Helpline (DeQH) Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), Providence, RI

GREATER NEW YORK CITY AREA Asian Pride Project, NY Dari Project, NY Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY), NY Q-WAVE, NY SALGA, NY PFLAG NYC Chapter – API Project

MID-ATLANTIC/ METRO DC AREA Asian Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), Washington, DC Asian Pacific Islander Queer Society (APIQS), Washington, DC hotpot!, Philadelphia, PA Khush - DC, Washington, DC