Friday, June 11, 2021 | 5:30PM to 7PM
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders comprise a larger and disproportionate share of LGBTQ immigrant populations, with 15 percent of undocumented LGBTQ adults and 35 percent of documented LGBTQ adults identifying as AAPI. After 9/11 in 2001, South Asian and Muslim immigrants have been targets of racial profiling, detentions, and deportations. After the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, the rights of LGBTQ people and all immigrants have been curtailed or significantly threatened. The LGBTQ AAPI community is often overlooked and their needs marginalized. LGBTQ AAPIs still suffer from invisibility, isolation, and stereotyping. To address the unmet needs of the LGBTQ AAPI community, several local LGBTQ AAPI organizations have formed over the years. Some have been short-lived while other groups have endured for decades.
This presentation, based on an article by Prof. Glenn Magapantay, studies local LGBTQ AAPI organizations over the past twenty years. It reveals the constituent elements that have allowed them to survive and thrive. While they continue to face internal challenges in building their organizations, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), a federation of LGBTQ AAPI organizations, has helped them expand their capacity and longevity. A sustainable model of infrastructure that builds local LGBTQ AAPI community is needed. That sustainable model is where organizations balance the social and, political, as well as peer-support and educational programming. Prof. Magpantay dubs this practical theory a “TIGER Analysis” or “Typography of Intersectional Gender and Sexual Empowerment and Resistance.”
Full Article: https://aapr.hkspublications.org/2020/10/04/tiger-a-sustainable-model-for-building-lgbtq-aapi-community/
