Programs
API Food Tour
Afternoon Tea & Discussion
Afternoon Tea & Discussion
Once a month, we share a meal at API owned restaurants. Come hang out with fellow PAQers on the last Sunday of the month.
Food themes and dates can be found on our website calendar or Facebook event page.
Due to COVID-19, the API Food Tour program is on hold. Look out for virtual events featuring food and our API community.
Afternoon Tea & Discussion
Afternoon Tea & Discussion
Afternoon Tea & Discussion
Discussion groups serve as a safe space for Queer API members to share personal struggles and resilience.
Discussion topics and dates can be found on our website calendar or Facebook event page.
Leadership Development
Afternoon Tea & Discussion
Leadership Development
Our Steering Committee is an opportunity for passionate and creative members to flex their leadership and organizing skills. We meet once a month to organize events and create programming.
Every year, we send Steering Committee members to NQAPIA's national conference where they commune and train with other Queer API folx across the country.
Contact us to join the steering committee!
Advocacy Efforts
Health and Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Health and Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Health and Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Supporting our parent organization (NQAPIA) on their campaign to promote health and healing justice.
We are committed to local and national action to address the specific health needs that impact our community.
Get involved today if you're interested in advocacy efforts that seek to increase access to care and other health care related issues among the Queer API community.
Topics Include: API mental health, access to treatment, gender-affirming treatment, sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, sex positivity, body positivity, recovery/resilience, preserving LGBTQ protections in the Affordable Care Act, caring for our loved ones as they age, access to affordable medicaitons, and topics that you find important with regards to health and healing.
Family is Still Family
Health and Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Health and Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Learn more:
Supporting our parent organization (NQAPIA) on their campaign to promote acceptance and love in for LGBTQ folx in API families.
This campaign includes three parts:
- 9 multilingual Public Service Announcements (PSA) on Asian ethnic television stations and international channels, online and on the air
- 26 translated resources “Coming Out to API Families: Talking Points for API LGBTQ Youth” that address fundamental questions about sexual orientation and gender-identity for parents and family members
- A series of international workshops of API parents who love their LGBTQ kids, where they provide culturally receptive peer-support for API families and for young people struggling to come out to their parents
https://www.nqapia.org/wpp/api-parents-who-love-their-lgbt-kids-multilingual-psa-campaign/
#mybeautifulAPIbody
Health and Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Supporting Legislation that protects LGBTQ and API Immigrants' rights
A social media campaign that celebrates the beauty and diversity of Queer API Bodies. Many of us have been subjected to shade, objectification and discrimination due to our unique and beautiful bodies. Colonialism and internalized racial oppression has conditioned some of us to hate our bodies. This social media campaign is a way for us to re-claim the beauty of the Queer API body.
We encourage all folx to get involved and snap a photo of your beautiful self. We welcome and celebrate body diversity and all shades of the Queer API community.
Tag a photo with #mybeautifulAPIbody
on Instagram and Facebook
We want to see you and celebrate you!
Supporting Legislation that protects LGBTQ and API Immigrants' rights
Supporting Legislation that protects LGBTQ and API Immigrants' rights
Supporting Legislation that protects LGBTQ and API Immigrants' rights
LGBTQ Equality Act: will prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender-identity in employment, housing, credit, education, public spaces and services, federally funded programs, and jury service.
Reuniting Families Act: Will update and preserve the current family-based immigration system to keep families together and reduce visa backlogs. It protects same-sex couples when one partner is from a country that does not recognize same-sex marriage, is an asylum grantee, or both are refugees and aim to resettled together.
Take Action Today!
Click the link below to get your voice heard!
https://nqapia.salsalabs.org/protectlgbtapicommunities/index.html
NQAPIA
Supporting Legislation that protects LGBTQ and API Immigrants' rights
Supporting Local Queer API Community Art and Local API Resources Hubs
PAQ is a member of the NQAPIA Federation.
The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge anti-LGBTQ bias and racism.
Learn More: https://www.nqapia.org/wpp/
Supporting Local Queer API Community Art and Local API Resources Hubs
Supporting Legislation that protects LGBTQ and API Immigrants' rights
Supporting Local Queer API Community Art and Local API Resources Hubs
We support our community members in their organizing efforts:
Asian Mosaic Fund
Asian Arts Initiatives
Fortune
Hot Pot
SEAMAC
Vietlead
Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia
Philadelphia Asian American Film & Film Makers
Nationalities Service Center
NQAPIA
Volunteers passionate about community + social change
Steering Committee
- Matthew Wong
- Dr. Noel B. Ramirez, DBH, MPH, MSW, LCSW, BCD
- Dr. Dalmacio Dennis Flores, III, PhD, MSN, RN
- Bre Gaudit
- John Gunawan
- Joy Lai
- Regina Lam
- Justin Lee
- Jillian Ma
- Suja Matthew
- Alexander Nicolas
- Quynh-Mai Nguyen
- Michael K. Nguyen
- Sayeeda Rashid
- Von Reyes
- Rex Yin
- Ying Zhang
Our Partners
