Glenn D. Magpantay

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is an Adjunct Professor in the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College/CUNY. Glenn is the former Executive Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), which works at the intersections of LGBT equality, racial justice and immigrants rights. Prior to that, Glenn had a long and distinguished career as a civil rights attorney as the Democracy Program Director at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), working to protect and promote the voting rights and political participation of Asian Americans. He also teaches Race & the Law at Brooklyn Law School.

Glenn has published scholarly legal articles, authored a number of reports, and has given commentary to numerous media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Glenn attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, and as a beneficiary of affirmative action, graduated cum laude from the New England School of Law, in Boston.

TIGER: A Sustainable Model for Building LGBTQ AAPI Community

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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.”

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