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Tamiment-Wagner: GAPIMNY

Collected by: New York University

Archived since: Dec, 2019

Description:

GAPIMNY is a volunteer-run community organization that provides social, educational, and cultural programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, same-gender loving, gender non-conforming, queer, and questioning people who are Asians Pacific Islander in the greater New York City area. In collaboration with other community organizations, GAPIMNY works to provide peer-support, educational resources, and programming on issues such as race, sexuality, gender, public health, and immigration law. GAPIMNY was founded as the Gay and Pacific Islander Men of New York was founded in 1990 by Don Kao, John Chin, and John Manzon. In the early 1990s, GAPIMNY organized with related groups to achieve greater visibility within the LGBTQ+ community and protest stereotypical public representations of Asian men and women. As the organization grew, it started hosting workshops for its community, established an online presence, and organized DynasTea, the organization's featured event from 1997 until 2006. In 2010, the organization debuted a newsmagazine called PersuAsian. In more recent years, GAPIMNY has increasingly partnered with other organizations to lead workshops and sponsor public programs on issues such as visibility, immigration, public health, and marriage equality. Some such collaborations include the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Pacific American Coalition for Equality (APACE), Asian Media Watchdog, and Asian Queer United in Action (AQUA). Recent programs and campaigns include participation in Chinatown's Lunar New Year Parade; continued protest over various examples of racial discrimination, homophobia, or transphobia; and DowneTime, a support program to provide a confidential space to discuss identity issues, attend health workshops, and connect with other members of the community. In 2018 the name of the organization changed from Gay and Pacific Islander Men of New York to GAPIMNY.

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Title: GAPIMNY

URL: http://gapimny.org/

Description: The GAPIMNY website is made up news and press releases, event listings, their platform and values, steering committee members, and their programming, including a leadership development program, their biweekly happy hour (Elixer), meetings and workshops, and political engagement organizing around immigration, racism, homophobia, and transgender exclusion. Events and programming are mostly focused around topics such as trans allyship, coming-out, local politics, and raising the visibility of issues regarding queer and trans Asian and Pacific Islanders.

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Title: The Gaysian Diaries

URL: https://gaysiandiaries.com/

Description: The Gaysian Diaries is a blog which exists to create an online space for queer and trans Asian and Pacific Islanders to share their experiences.

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