Lenore Chinn – San Francisco
Hometown: San Francisco
Ethnicity/Racial Background: Chinese American
Gender: Female
Age
63Pronouns: She
Sexual Orientation: Lesbian, Gay, Queer
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Communities United Against Violence (CUAV)
Founded in 1979, CUAV works to build the power of LGBTQQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) communities to transform violence and oppression. We support the healing and leadership of those impacted by abuse and mobilize our broader communities to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of safety and liberation. As part of the larger social justice movement, CUAV works to create truly safe communities where everyone can thrive.
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA)
The purpose of GAPA is to provide a progressive forum where we can develop an agenda by actively pursing and addressing issues that directly affect gay & bisexual Asian/Pacific Islanders. In addition, we are building a community for gay & bisexual Asian/Pacific Islander men where we can be supportive of each other and achieve empowerment for ourselves by developing leadership.
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Contact: info (at) gapa (dot) org
United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (U.TO.P.I.A.)
Our mission is to promote unity & strength among the Polynesian/Pacific Islanders Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender community. (LGBT) To provide support and guidance to our youths regarding sexual orientation and how it is viewed within the Polynesian/Pacific Islanders culture. To provide awareness to the LGBT, Polynesian/Pacific and greater community on issues regarding the prejudices and difficulties LGBT Polynesians/Pacific Islanders face and to propose potential solutions. To provide education regarding the various Polynesian/Pacific Islanders cultures and the difficulties of assimilation into the United States society without losing their heritage. Provide a positive, life-affirming experience for people affected and infected by HIV. To offer a referral service to Polynesians/Pacific Islanders to help them address problems they face as recent immigrants to the United States. To share our culture with the greater community through traditional songs and dance. To Increase awareness and knowledge about the services and programs offered by the benefiting organizations.
Women of Trikone (San Francisco)
Women-of-Trikone is a list-serve for queer women of South Asian descent from the Bay Area interested in building a strong community, engaging in discussions, networking, sharing news and organizing/advertising events. Allies who identify as women and queer are welcome as well. Currently, we have over 150 members.
Trinity Ordona – San Francisco
Ethnicity/Racial Background: Filipino
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Preferred Pronouns: She, fine with any
Sexual Orientation: Lesbian
City: San Francisco, 2013
Kien Wei-I Chou – San Francisco
Ethnicity/Racial Background: Chinese
Gender Identity: Trans
Age: 30
Pronouns: Usually go by he, but I’m not a huge fan of pronouns in general
Sexual Orientation: Queer
Casey Kho – San Francisco
Ethnicity/Racial Background: Southeast Asian
Gender Identity: Female
Age: 36
Pronouns: She
Sexual Orientation: Gay
City: San Francisco, 2009
L. Chiu – San Francisco
Ethnicity/Racial Background: Taiwanese American
Gender Identity: Genderqueer
Age: 33
Pronouns: She
Sexual Orientation: Queer
City: San Francisco
ISO LGBT memories of WWII incarceration
Desperately seeking LGBT memories of World War II incarceration
May 10, 2011 By TINA TAKEMOTO
Two years ago, I was invited to participate in E.G. Crichton’s project “Lineage: Matchmaking in the Archive” in which artists, writers and musicians were asked to respond to personal collections in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society archive. I was “matched” with Jiro Onuma, a gay Issei who moved to the U.S. from Iwate Prefecture, Japan in 1923 at age 19. Compared to some of the other collections in the archive, Onuma’s is rather modest. It consists of a few photo albums, some personal documents and papers, and a small collection of homoerotic male physique magazines and ephemera.
As I looked through pictures of the elegantly dressed Onuma posing with his male friends and lovers around San Francisco and other travel locations, two photographs captured my attention. Both were taken while Onuma was imprisoned at the Topaz concentration camp in Central Utah during World War II. The first is a group portrait showing Onuma and his mess hall workmates in front of Block #3 Dining Hall. The second shows Onuma, his close friend Ronald, and another man casually posing together on barren prison ground with a guard tower and barbed wire visible in the distance…
Read more at NichiBei.org.