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Freedom, Inc

Freedom, Inc is a grassroots organization with a vision of creating and building a world we want to live in. Starting as the Asian Freedom Project in 2000, it created youth-led collective learning groups to organize and mobilize on issues that affected their daily lives.

In 2003, Freedom, Inc became an official non-profit organization. Since then, our work has grown to include people from other communities. Our mission is to engage low- to no-income communities of color to end violence against women folks, gender non-conforming folks, and young folks, which bring about deep social, political, cultural, and economic change. We organize around the root causes of violence, creating new definitions and solutions, and empowering all community members as agents of change to inspire and restore power of those most affected. We do this through leadership development and community organizing, in ways that are language-gender-generation and culture-specific to women, gender non-conforming, and youth, in African American and Southeast Asian families.

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Contact: kabzuagvaj (at) gmail (dot) com

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Korean-Americans United for Equality (KUE)

KUE (Koreans United for Equality) is an alliance of multigenerational straight and LGBTIQ Koreans. Mission: To increase the visibility of LGBTQI Koreans within the Korean community as well as the gay community. To provide resources in the form of information, news, announcements, and spaces for LGBTQI Koreans as well as the friends and family of LGBTQI Koreans. To promote education of LGBTIQ-related issues and dispel negative stereotypes of the LGBTIQ community within the Korean community.

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Gay Asian Pacific Support Network (GAPSN)

The goal of GAPSN is to provide a supportive environment for Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender API Men on issues of significance to the Gay API Community.

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Contact: gapsn@gapsn.org

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transAPI Voices

“I’ve struggled with gender my entire life but I always pushed it to the back of my mind in fear of the backlash from my family and friends; last year I began to address my struggles. I embarked on the journey to discover who I am, I yearned for a role model or just someone that understood my personal struggles, which were very specific. I was negotiating gender identity combined with a Vietnamese family and cultural background. Because I was born and raised in Kentucky, it was challenging to find people or resources in my community. Even searching online with an abundance of resources for trans folks, it was challenging to find information on being Asian and trans.  I felt very isolated.

As I started meeting more trans and gender diverse Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs), I began hearing similar narratives to my own. We felt lonely and isolated. I realized that I could continue looking for a role model or I can be that role model just by putting myself out there.  What better way than through YouTube.  So, I asked a few of friends that I knew felt similarly, and transAPIvoices was created.”

transAPIvoices is a collaboration channel of trans and gender diverse Asians and Pacific Islanders from all over the U.S.  This channel is for to us share narratives and experiences navigating and negotiating our identities. We created this online space because of the difficulty finding narratives similar to our specific experiences being trans/gender diverse and API.  We hope this channel can be used as a tool, to create a support system and community, and to show other trans and gender diverse APIs that you are not alone.”

— Jayden Thai // Founder transAPI Voices + Visibility Project Participant in 2012

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Asian Pride Project

The Asian Pride Project  (APP) aspires to foster greater visibility, pride, acceptance, unity, and harmony for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asians & Pacific Islander (API) people in our families, cultural communities and beyond, no matter where we are! We believe in the power of sharing, connecting, and relating to give API families and communities the support they need when struggling with the challenges of our sexual and gender identities in the API cultural context. APP is led by a small group of dedicated and passionate leaders of New York City’s Asian American LGBT organizations, including Q-Wave — an Asian and Pacific Islander group for those who identify as lesbian, female bisexual, or transgendered, GAPIMINY — the Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York, and SALGA-NYC — the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association of New York City.

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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY API PFLAG

The influx of both foreign-born and second generation APIs prompt those in the the social and mental health services an increased level of concern, as they attempt to accommodate the needs of a culture of individuals who generally avoid the use of their services. Development of a culture-specific framework for delivery of services is a matter of ongoing research and strategic implementation. In providing access to a culturally-specific resource, the variety of cultural representations of the API community must be taken into consideration: the differences in faith, educational level, socio-economic status, health condition, political ideology, past or current military background, home language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and generational and acculturation levels. Being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) and/or having an LGBT family member in the API community is not a new phenomenon.

Website: http://www.sangabrielvalleyapipflag.com/

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BROWN BOI PROJECT

The Brown Boi Project is a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice.

Website: http://www.brownboiproject.org/ 

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