APLBTN Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Network

Asian Women Shelter Queer women program
Office: 415-751-7110; 877-751-0880.

Asian Women's Shelter (AWS) is a battered women's shelter targeting Asian immigrant and refugee women and their children. AWS offers a nine-week safe shelter program that includes: peer support; legal advocacy; public aid advocacy; and referrals to housing, jobs, education and other needs. Services provided are language appropriate and culturally competent.

Innovative Projects:
* Queer Women's Services (providing services to queer women in relationship violence)
* Multi-lingual Access Model (providing services in 20 languages and dialects)
* Shimtuh (providing services to the Korean community)


Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride
510-818-0887; email APIFamilyPride@aol.com
P.O. Box 640223, San Francisco, CA 94164
www.apifamilypride.org

API Family Pride is a supportive environment for families of Asian/Pacific bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender people. We have produced a video, Coming Out - Coming Home, which contains interviews with four pairs of parents and/or family members of API LGBT. For more information, please contact us at APIFamilyPride@aol.com

Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center  
An Asian & Pacific Islander AIDS agency, www.apiwellness.org.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center (A&PIWC) is the oldest and most comprehensive, non-profit HIV/AIDS services organization in North America targeting Asian & Pacific Islander communities. To meet the needs of our clients who are often immigrants or refugees, A&PIWC's staff speak 18 languages.

Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center's mission is to educate, support, empower and advocate for Asian & Pacific Islander (A&PI) communities -- particularly A&PIs living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS.

AQU²⁵A    Asian and Pacific Islander Queer and Questioning, 25 and Under All Together is a group about and run by young queer and questioning Asians and Pacific Islanders (A&PIs) who are aged 25 years and under. AQU²⁵A holds drop-in groups on the first, third and last Wednesdays of the month, 7:00p-9:00p. The group serves as a safe space for young people to hang out. We hold picnics, socials, parties, dances, retreats and other fun activities throughout the year. Check out our cool AQU²⁵A website at www.aquanet.org/zinev2/.  Bryant Tan, AQUA Youth Program Cordinator @ 415.292.3420 x315.
 

Center for Asian American Media, www.asianamericanmedia.org
(formerly know as NAATA.)

The Center for Asian American Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. We do this by funding, producing,distributing and exhibiting works in film, television and digital media.

145 Ninth Street, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA 94110
phone: 415 863 0814, fax: 415 863 7428

GAPA Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, www.gapa.org.

GAPA is an organization dedicated to furthering the interests of gay & bisexual Asian/Pacific Islanders by creating awareness, by developing a positive collective identity and by establishing a supportive community. GAPA was formed from the need for an organization to address, through a democratic process, social, cultural and political issues affecting the gay & bisexual Asian/Pacific Islander community.

GRACE - is a faith sharing group that offers a safe and confidential space for GLBT and questioning Asian and Pacific Islander Christians and their friends to come together for community, social support, worship and spiritual sharing.

GLBTQ Asian Christians are uniquely challenged by religious and cultural forces. GRACE responds with a nurturing community for caring and spiritual exploration. Persons of all races, ethnicities, genders and sexualities are both welcome and encouraged to attend! Email lai_may@hotmail.com for directions or more information. Please visit our website at www.pacts-gtu.org/grace.

Junoon - is a highly energetic and entertaining drag king will be performing a captivating number at the show. Click on link below to visit Junoon's website www.geocities.com/dragking_junoon.

Law Offices of Alma Soongi Beck - is a young and steadily growing law practice providing unique legal services throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Our offices can help you with your estate planning, whether it involves protecting your loved ones from the unexpected (through wills, trusts, powers of attorney, etc.), protection of your assets from exposure to liability, or simply retention of accumulated wealth. We also provide Domestic Partnership Planning and Counseling on Property Co-Ownership Issues. Please contact us at (415) 642-9930, alma@beckesq.com. For more information, please visit www.beckesq.com.

National Center of Lesbian Rights (NCLR) 
Tel: 415-392-NCLR (6257) or 800-528-NCLR (6257).
Website: www.NCLRights.org

NCLR is a national legal resource center with a primary commitment to advancing the rights and safety of lesbians and their families through a program of litigation, public policy advocacy, free legal advice and counseling, and public education. In addition, NCLR provides representation and resources to gay men, and bisexual and transgender individuals on key issues that also significantly advance lesbian rights. To find out more about who we are and what we do, please check our website: www.NCLRights.org.

Purple Moon Dance Project 
Website: www.purplemoondance.org

The PURPLE MOON DANCE PROJECT was founded by Jill Togawa in 1992 and Its mission is to develop a greater appreciation of American cultural diversity, especially for lesbians and women of color, through the medium of dance. 

Purple Moon produces an annual 'home season' of work in San Francisco, and tours nationally and internationally. Purple Moon's artists also offer workshops for women living with life threatening illness and women of color over 50 and their friends without formal dance training. For more info, please check our website or call us at  415-552-1105.


 

South Bay Queer & Asian is a support and social group that provides gay, bisexual, and lesbian Asians and Pacific Islanders in the South Bay with a safe place to "come out of the closet" and be comfortable with their sexual identity and race. Our meetings serve as a forum where individuals can freely discuss issues relevant to being gay/bisexual/lesbian and Asian in a relaxed and friendly environment. SBQA's social events afford members opportunities to meet others of similar backgrounds and interests and to build new, lasting friendships. Our group also supports the development of its members' organizational leadership skills.  Website: www.sbqa.com

 

Dr. Teresa Lau, DC – is an activist and now a chiropractor practicing Network Spinal Analysis, and Somato Respiratory Integration. She's a gifted practitioner with a loving touch in this holistic healing modality that focuses on our body's innate intelligence to know itself, heal itself, connect & release tension, and walk in the world of possibilities. Call our office at (510) 684 1281 or email dr.teresa@gmail.com to make an appointment. For more information, please visit www.drTeresa.net. Mention this APIQWTC link for the special Cutsey discount on your Initial Visit.

TSE Financial is a community-minded mortgage brokerage originating real estate loans in California and several other states. We have a program benefiting
non-profit organizations of your choice called "Caring Advantage". TSE Financial will make a donation of up to $300 to a non-profit organization (with 501c3 status) on behalf of any of our home financing clients. On that note, we are proud to announce that Asian Women Shelter (AWS) is one of the beneficiariesof our charity program. TSE Financial strongly believes in giving back to the community.

I work with a team of seasoned mortgage experts ready to assist on all your real estate financing needs. I work with first-time homebuyers, current homeowners
and real estate investors of all credit and gender types. TSE Financial is approved to broker to hundreds of lenders, if you are pro-choice call me.

In addition, we are one of the few mortgage brokerages approved to do CalHFA loans for first-time homebuyers. Please call Jen's cell at 415-806-3367 or email her at
mortgagejen@yahoo.com for more information.



Trikone is a registered 501c3 non-profit South Asian queer support organization that holds monthly events. For more info, contact Mads Anji (415) 826-6177, mad_anji@hotmail.com. For Trikone e-newsletters, email webmaster@trikone.org. Website at www.trikone.org.

Utopia Asia www.utopia-asia.com

If you are travelling to Asia and want to visit  queer or queer-friendly places, this is where you want to visit first before your trip. Lots of information.  The Utopia Asia website remains the Internet’s most popular and comprehensive English-language resource for the multi-faceted homosexual subcultures of Asia.

Utopia continues to pursue its original goal to improve the lives of Asian lesbians and gay men, to build community, and to foster a deeper understanding of gay life in the region.

Last updated at June 23, 2006.