API Pride at 2012 Pride Festival & Parade!

Asian Pacific Islander Pride to march in Portland Pride

Portland - June 15-16th, 2012  - Join Asian Pacific Islander (API) Pride in commemorating the Year of the Dragon at the 2012 Portland Pride Festival and Parade from Saturday, June 16th to Sunday June 17th at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park.  

March with our dragon float during Sunday’s parade or visit our booth throughout the weekend.  Meet other API lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer folks, play games and pick up our giveaways. Want to really get involved? Volunteer during the march or at the booth and get a free API Pride t-shirt. Sign up here, check out our website, or find us on facebook. 

Asian Pacific Islander Pride
(Formerly Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays)
api.pride@gmail.com / (503) 877-9379 / Blogspot / Facebook 

API Pride is a group led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in Oregon.  We provide safe and supportive environments and opportunities to celebrate, educate and bring our communities together.

Saturday May 19th is National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

This Saturday, May 19, is National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

According to the Banyan Tree Project, HIV infections in A&PI communities are on the rise, and  stigma is a major factor:

·         Health providers believe A&PIs are “low risk” for HIV and often don’t offer testing

·         A&PIs are afraid to get tested for fear of rejection by family and community: Over one-half of Pacific Islanders and two-thirds of Asians have never been tested for HIV

·         Fear and shame associated with HIV can lead to depression and isolation, often causing people to engage in unsafe behaviors.

Join Cascade AIDS Project in helping to decrease stigma around HIV testing and increase the number of people who know their status. We will offer HIV testing at our main office, 208 SW 5^th Ave Suite 800, from 10am – 4pm on Friday, May 18 and Monday, May 20. We will also have testing available for gay, bisexual and transgender men at Pivot, 209 SW 4^th Av, from 5-9pm on Saturday, May 19. Testing is by suggested donation only, and no one will be turned away for inability to pay.

There will be fun giveaways from the Banyan Tree Project for those who come in for testing during those times!

Michael Anderson-Nathe, Director of Prevention and Education, said, “Growing up in a Vietnamese-American household – I know first-hand the power and influence ‘saving face’ has on many Asian communities and the need to protect family honor. This cultural concept is not inherently right or wrong, but when it has the impact of silencing how we embrace our own and other’s sexual health, it can lead to misinformation, isolation, shame, and potentially harmful behaviors. Talking about

sex, talking about HIV, getting tested, and learning your status are major steps we can all take to break this silence.”

Please help us to recognize this day by passing this information along to your members. We also have a limited number of posters available (see attached document for styles) – if you would like one to display, let us know!

 

The LuLu Sessions - QDoc Festival Screening

API Pride is proud to be a Community Partner with the QDoc Film Festival again this year.  We will be co-presenting a film, The LuLu Session Saturday May 19th, at 1:30pm (see details below for more details).  S. Casper Wong, the film director will be present at the screening.

Hope to see you all there!

The LuLu Sessions
Saturday, May 19th, 1:30pm

Kennedy School Theater

(5736 NE 33rd Avenue)

Tickets:  Film-only $9 general/ $7 senior/student

http://www.queerdocfest.org

Presented by QDoc with community partners Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and Asian Pacific Islander Pride

Director S. Casper Wong in attendance

http://lulusessionsfilm.com/

In this enormously compelling and tender-hearted film, director S. Casper Wong chronicles the journey she shared with her former teacher, best friend and on-again/off-again companion over the last 15 months of LuLu’s life. Armed with a predilection toward profanity, an ever-lit cigarette and a can of cheap beer, LuLu unflinchingly battles a disease she knows only far too well.
Dr. Louise Nutter, affectionately known as LuLu, is a renowned cancer researcher on the cutting edge of developing a promising anti-cancer drug. Passionate, driven and inspiring to scientific peers and students alike, LuLu is known as much for her 16-hour workdays as for her hard-living lifestyle. When she herself is diagnosed with breast cancer, LuLu remarks, “I don’t have time to do this shit,” and never allows the diagnosis to transform her spirit or shake her trademark sense of humor.
The raw self-reflection expressed at times by those experiencing breast cancer, as well by those closest to them, is all captured here. But at its core The LuLu Sessions is a completely unconventional love story--an intimate and deeply personal portrait of two people confronting a terminal illness with honesty, laughter and love.
The LuLu Sessions: Dir S. Casper Wong 2011 USA 87 min

Join us for "No Look Pass" - April 14

API Pride and Portland State University present

No Look Pass: A Conversation about Race, Gender and Sexuality

As part of the 2012 Oregon Queer Students of Color Conference's feature film, NO LOOK PASS is the coming-of-age American Dream story of Emily "Etay" Tay, a first generation queer woman, transition into adulthood between her senior year at Harvard her first year playing professionally in Europe. Emily's parents risked everything to emigrate from Burma in 1980 to Los Angeles and expect Emily to return home after graduation. But Emily must follow her own dreams, which means moving to Germany and falling in love with a U.S. servicewoman living under Don't Ask Don't Tell. After feeling like an outsider her entire life, Emily struggles to become a leader, not just a star and faces the terror of telling her parents who she really is.

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

5th Avenue Cinema

510 SW Hall Street, Portland

7:00-9:00 PM

Featuring Q&A with director Melissa Johnson and API Pride

Watch the trailer <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KbwxczX2KzQ>

Register for the Queer Students of Color Conference at: <https://sites.google.com/site/qusocc/home/about>

Asian Pacific Islander Pride
(Formerly Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays)
api.pride@gmail.com / (503) 877-9379 / Blogspot / Facebook

API Pride is a group led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in Oregon. We provide safe and supportive environments and opportunities to celebrate, educate and bring our communities together.

Buy Tickets Today for January 21 Lunar Banquet!

2012 Lunar New Year Banquet

Date: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Time: 6 - 9 pm
Location: Buchan Room, Eliot Center
1226 SW Salmon St. Portland, OR 97205 [map]

Seating is limited - Buy tickets online today!
$15 in advance, $20 at the door, with no one turned away for lack of funds.
Admission includes buffet & program, cash bar available for 21 and over.

The banquet will be a night for all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Asians and
Pacific Islanders and our friends and family to come together, enjoy good food and amazing local performances while celebrating each other.

$1 raffle tickets available the night of from fabulous local vendors including: Awesome Cone, Basic Rights Oregon, Chef Naoko, Dennis Lo, Furever Pets, The Gilt Club, Ground Kontrol, Neapolitan Chocolate & Company, Portland QDoc Film Festival, Rose City Rollers, She Bop, TanQ, VooDoo Doughnut, & more!

This is an all ages event.

Winter Solstice Potluck - Dec 10, 2011

End your year with API Pride's annual Winter Solstice Potluck! We'll have good food, fun activities and gift exchange. Can't bring anything? Come anyway!

Saturday, December 10, 2010
5:00 - 9:00 PM
Leftbank Building (2nd Floor Lounge)
240 North Broadway, Portland, OR 97227
Accessible by Trimet Bus # 4, 9, 44 & 85. 4 blocks from the Interstate and Rose Quarter Max Station.
Please RSVP at this [LINK]

If you would like to participate in our white elephant gift exchange, simply bring a wrapped gift, no more than $10 to exchange with others.

Open to all LGBTQ Asians & Pacific Islanders, your families & partners.

Summer Potluck Barbecue

Celebrate your summer with API Pride's Summer Welcome Party! Open to all LGBTQ Asians ad Pacific Islanders, your families and partners! Relax after work and start your weekend off right!

We will provide the free food, fun activities and gaymes! Bring your blankets, chairs, and your fabulous selves. This is a potluck optional event so let us know if you will be bringing something. Spread the word to your fellow queer API friends and we look forward to seeing you soon!

PLEASE RSVP so we know how much food to grill

Details:

When - Friday, August 26th, 6:00 pm
Where - Lair Hill City Park
SE Hooker ST & 2nd Ave, Portland 97201
Accessible by Bus #9, 12, 17, 19 and 44, get off at Hooker ST ( bus stops 174, 175, 143, 144)

Join us for Pride March & Booth Volunteer!

A friendly reminder to join Asian Pacific Islander Pride this weekend (details below)! Our booth is located between booth P & N (click here for the map on page 17).

For Sunday’s march at 11:30 AM (SW 13th & Burnside), our Pride Planning Committee has worked hard on our beautiful float. We’ll have flags for you to wave and music to bump. Bring your family,friends, cameras and umbrellas!

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Hello Asian Pacific Islander Pride members and friends,

Portland Pride is just 10 days away!

Visit our booth!

Please stop by our booth on Saturday, June 18th and Sunday June 19th from 12-6pm at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park. We'll have gaymes, goodies and our t-shirts for just $10!

Want to volunteer at our booth? We are calling all LGBTQ Asians and Pacific Islanders to sign up for a 2 hour shift below and get a FREE t-shirt! We'll provide water, snacks and a fabulous board member to accompany you. If interested, please specify the shift(s) and sign up [HERE] or visit us at<http://tinyurl.com/APIPride2011> by Tuesday, June 14th.

Join us for the march!

Get your Asian Pacific Islander Pride on! Show Portland that APIs are here and queer! Join us for the API Pride March on Sunday, June 19th @ 11:30am at the corner of SW 13th Ave & Burnside Street. Look for the group of API wearing our t-shirts (only $5 for marchers). Sign up by replying to us by June 14th. For updates and announcements, visit us at <api-pride.blogspot.com>.

Please plan ahead for [parking] & directions. Sun or rain, we'll see you at Pride!

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Asian Pacific Islander Pride
(Formerly Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays)
api.pride@gmail.com / (503) 877-9379 / Blogspot / Facebook

API Pride is a group led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in Oregon. We provide safe and supportive environments and opportunities to celebrate, educate and bring our communities together.