Welcome to Philly Asian Queer!
Read our latest newsletters + see what we've been up to.
Welcome to Philly Asian Queer!
Read our latest newsletters + see what we've been up to.
Steering Committee Members
Volunteers passionate about community + social change:
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
Environmental & Climate Justice
Environmental & Climate Justice
Environmental & Climate Justice
We want to take a moment to give thanks to Mother Earth and the Black and Brown communities on the frontlines working to fight environmental injustice and climate change.
Climate change is a threat to everyone’s physical and mental health. Good air quality, water, and shelter are limited—especially for under-resourced groups, affecting their social determinants of health, income, and access to resources. In the U.S., these more vulnerable communities are communities of color and immigrants.
There are countless folx leading the movement to focus on the "fair" distribution and treatment of environmental benefits and burdens — including farmers in South Asia and younger activists across Southeast Asia. From Myanmar to the United States, we applaud those who have taken up the charge to Restore the Earth.
Learn more about this growing movement:
Stop Anti-Asian Hate
Environmental & Climate Justice
Environmental & Climate Justice
The wave of Anti-Asian racism over the last year has caused an increase in racially motivated hate crimes against the most vulnerable in our communities. As we continue to celebrate our many cultures, and engage in conversations about race in our relationships, it’s pivotal that we keep ourselves and other marginalized people safe.
Here are some orgs and resources to follow or support:
BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING
Stop anti-asian/american and xenophobic harassment and learn how to activate your bystander intervention skills. Check out these free trainings created through the amazing partnership between Asian Americans Advancing Justice & Hollaback!
RESOURCES FOR HARASSMENT ON THE STREET, ONLINE & IN THE WORKPLACE
Lots of goodies in here. You'll find a range of resources from How To's and Policy Recommendations to Definitions and Counter Speeches.
Black Lives Matter
Environmental & Climate Justice
Health & Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
We at PAQ acknowledge that we have a responsibility to uplift Black liberation movements which have paved the way for API racial movements. There are ways in which our communities contribute to white supremacy and it's important that we continue to fight against anti-Black racism and violence. We encourage you to take action: to listen, to learn, and to donate to Black non-profits and businesses (refer to our June newsletter). Black Lives Matter. Always.
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RESOURCES FOR THE ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ON ANTI-BLACKNESS
A compilation of resources, reading lists, and more on anti-racism and anti-Blackness for the Asian American community.
Health & Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Health & Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Health & 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 medications, and topics that you find important with regards to health and healing.
Family is Still Family
Health & Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Family is Still Family
Supporting our parent organization (NQAPIA) on their Family is Still Family 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
#mybeautifulAPIbody
Health & Healing Justice for Queer API Communities
Family is Still Family
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!
LGBTQ & API Immigrants' Rights
Philly Queer/API Community Orgs, Arts & Resource Hubs
LGBTQ & API Immigrants' Rights
Support legislation that protects LGBTQ & 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.
NQAPIA
Philly Queer/API Community Orgs, Arts & Resource Hubs
LGBTQ & API Immigrants' Rights
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.
Philly Queer/API Community Orgs, Arts & Resource Hubs
Philly Queer/API Community Orgs, Arts & Resource Hubs
Philly Queer/API Community Orgs, Arts & Resource Hubs
We support our community members in their organizing efforts:
- Asian Mosaic Fund
- Asian Arts Initiatives
- CAGE: Cambodian American Girls Empowering
- CAGP: Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia
- Fortune Zine
- hotpot! Philly
- Laos in the House
- Nationalities Service Center
- PAAFF: Philadelphia Asian American Film & Film Makers
- Pejuang Indonesian Coalition For Social Justice
- SEAMAAC
- VietLead
Our Partners