11/15/2011 “We are family!”: LGBT Asian American/ South Asian Parents & Parenting
October 30, 2011
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“We are family!” (literally)
LGBT Asian American/ South Asian Parents and Parenting
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Join SALGA, GAPIMY, and QWAVE for a discussion by LGBTs who have children and the different ways they became parents. One couple through same-sex adoption, another through a sperm donor, and a third through a prior heterosexual marriage.
The presenters will talk frankly about their personal experiences, joys and struggles of parenting, family acceptance, making mom and dad grandparents, negotiating who is “daddy” or “mommy,” issues of race, and broader community acceptance. At the end of the program, an attorney will briefly go over the nuts, bolts, and legal options for individuals and couples who want to start a family.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
6pm to 8pm
LGBT Center in Manhattan
208 West 13th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.
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The families:
Sunyoo Kim and Agnes Harley, and with their 2 year old daughter Kai Seong-Ah Kim
Glenn Magpantay and Christopher Goeken, and their 5 year old son Malcolm.
Karen Naimool and Jennifer Griffith, and their 8 year old son Jadon
Sponsored by South Asian Gay & Lesbian Association (SALGA), QWAVE, and the Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY), and the LGBT Center Families Program.
Co-Sponsoring Just Hang Just Dance 9/18/2010
September 7, 2010
Q-Wave in conjunction of Just Hang are throwing a dance party for the mid-autumn festival!
ASIAN FEMME’ DANCE PARTY
Celebrate mid-autumn festival
Live DJ, Special gifts for the wildest dancer(s)
When: September 18, 2010, Saturday, 10PM – 2 AM
Where: Heavenly Bamboo
10 East 39th Street (between 5th and Madison)
PRE-PARTY DINNERS RECEIVE 10% OFF + FREE DESSERT
NO COVER CHARGE!
All Asian women & trans-identified people welcome
18 to party, 21 to drink
Sponsored by JUST HANG / Q-WAVE
3rd Annual NYC Queer Asian Youth Picnic Aug 8, 2010
July 19, 2010
Bryant Park Queer Asian Invasion!
3rd Annual NYC Queer Asian Youth Picnic
Where? Bryant Park, NYC (we’ll be on the lawn)
When? Sunday, August 8th from 2 PM – 4 PM
How Much? FREE
Description:
What better way to spend the summer than taking over one of NYC’s most beloved parks? Join NYC’s young queer Asian community as we take over Bryant Park for our 3rd annual picnic. We’ll bring the food, drinks and games. Just bring yourself! Oh, wait that’s a lie. Bring a blanket if you got one AND if you got a game you want to play, bring that too.
Not only is this a chance to catch some rays and relax a little bit in the heart of NYC, this is also a chance to meet other queer Asian youth in the city.
This picnic is open only to LGBT Asians and South Asians of all genders ages 26 and under. Questions? Send to downetime@gmail.com or call Dennis at 609-954-2111.
Co-sponsored by Downetime, GAPIMNY’s Young Adult Group, SALGA and Q-WAVE
31st Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
April 28, 2010
The 31st Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival will be taking place this Sunday 5/2, Noon-6PM, at Union Square Park! (East 14th Street btw. Broadway & Park Ave.)
This festival is a GREAT opportunity for us to be visible in our larger Asian communities, & Q-Wave will have a table next to our friends from BARANGAY, GAPIMNY, and SALGA. Please stop by, and email info@q-wave.org for more information if you would like to help out.
PARADE DAY INFO – Lunar New Year for ALL 2010, Sun. 2/21 – pls RSVP
February 20, 2010
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow! The first-ever Asian LGBTQ contingent in NYC’s Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade!!
We need you, your friends & family to come fly our colorful fish kites, hold banners, pass out beautiful postcards & pens, serve as marshals/security, or just be part of our historic contingent. If you cannot march with us, we still really need you to be an enthusiastic member of the crowd/cheerleader and join us for food afterwards!
PARADE DAY MEETING INFO
SUNDAY, FEB. 21, 2010
11:30 AM on Mott Street, between Hester & Spring.
(Walk up Mott Street until you see our Lunar New Year for All banners & colorful fish kites.)
Please leave yourself extra time to arrive at the meeting location; it will be very crowded!
Contact phone numbers: Karen (718) 350-7279 and Olympia (917-518-2277)
Post-Parade CELEBRATION: We will all head over to eat Dim Sum together immediately after marching.
~3:00pm-ish at Jing Fong Golden Harvest Restaurant
18 Elizabeth Street, just south of Canal
Ask for “Q-Wave” tables. Approximately $10-$15 per person.
(Everyone is welcome to join us with family & friends, even if you cannot march in the parade.)
Please send us an email at lunarnewyearforall@gmail.com with your Name and # of people that will come with you to the Parade and/or Dim Sum. It will really help us to have a good idea of how many people to expect.
Thanks & See you soon!
—the LUNAR NEW YEAR FOR ALL 2010 Planning Team
Irene, Don, Fay, Jin, Nat, Kian, Karen, Olympia, Aries, Ken, Patrick
p.s. visit our website, www.asianprideproject.org/lunarnewyear to see the tremendous support from many prominent people and Chinatown- and nationally-based organizations. They are stepping up in solidarity so that we can all step out on the streets of Chinatown together with our families! Our South Asian and Irish sisters and brothers from SALGA and St. Pat’s for All, who have struggled to be included in their community parades, will also be joining us as honored members of our contingent this year.