Sun, April 22
APIQWTC Community Meeting 

PLEASE COME TO THIS MEETING! APIQWTC needs your help to put together more great events in the coming future: Summer BBQ and Sports, APIQWTC conference and workshops. E-mail Koko at kokolin@yahoo.com for more information.

Thursday, May 3
Asian Women’s Shelter 13th Annual Event "Sisters, Mothers, Daughters" 

This wonderful annual event will be hosted at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center (1111 Gough St. at Geary in San Francisco). It will start at 6pm for buffet reception and 7pm for program and performances. Keynote speaker: Elisabeth Kim, author of Ten Thousand Sorrows. To RSVP, please call 415-751-7110.

AWS was founded in 1988 to address the needs of battered Asian women and their children. One of their programs is Queer Asian Women’s Services (QAWS). The goal of AWS is to eliminate domestic violence by promoting the social, economic, and political self-determination of women.

Friday, May 18
Saturday, May 19 
Purple Moon Dance Project

An evening of invocations, journeys and meetings of the heart and spirit. Saturday, May 19 New and repertory work and collaborative works-in-progress with LOUD, a Seattle/Vancouver-based taiko trio. At Luna Sea, 2948 16th St., San Francisco. Box office: 415-863-2989. Tickets $12.

The Queer Cultural Center, Harvey Milk Institute, and the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Art & Culture present the second National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco California. The June festival will feature Queer Artists in dance, theater, visual arts, film, video, literature and solo performance. For more information, please go to QCC's website at www.queerculturalcenter.org.

For tickets, please call Frameline at 415-255-1805. For more information, call 24-hour hotline at 415-703-8663 or visit their website at www.frameline.org.

Did you ever want to learn how to juggle, or perhaps to fly on trapeze? Wait no longer, and join us for a day of circus-circus fun, AQUA style. FREE event. Please RSVP to Shery Uyan (415) 292-3420 x 315 or sheryl@apiwellness.org. Rides can be arranged. Call for more info. Event sponsored by QUACK (QUeer Asian ChicKs).

Come and join APIQWTC to march at the Dyke March. From 7pm ~ ???, starting at Dolores Park in San Francisco. Tentatively, APIQWTC folks will be meeting at around 7pm on the steps of the Mission Dolores High School on Dolores St. and 18th St. Please stay tuned for more info. For last minute info, please call Koko at her cell phone at 415-298-6621. More info will be available at APIQWTC voice mailbox at 415-292-3420 ext. 513 and our website at www.apiqwtc.org. You may visit http://www.sfpride.org for more parade-related info.

Come march with APIQWTC!!! Don’t miss the big party! This year, we will have our own banner and theme. Kathy Ma will be organizing our contingent. Please contact her if you can help out!!! :-)

The parade will start at Market and Beale at 10:30am and will proceed west on Market Street to Market and Eighth Street which is an entrance to the Celebration Site located in the San Francisco Civic Center. The Women's Motorcycle Contingent kicks off the parade followed by two hundred plus contingents of marchers and floats. We will be marching with our own banner!!! Please stay tuned for more info. You may call our hotline or check our website for meeting time and location. Please also visit www.sfpride.org for more parade information.

Dykes bike! Lezzies get busy! Queers Cheer! Jocks rock! Bi's vie!
An event full of sports, food, fun, and friends!!!

We had so much FUN last year so let’s do it again!

Time: 11am - 4:30pm
Location: Live Oak Park On Shattuck Ave. (between Rose & Eunice St) Berkeley, California

Wheelchair accessible. Food and Refreshments will be served. $5 suggested donation (but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.) Bring your own favorite drink… Bring games & sports equipment! (Frisbee, Volleyball, Twister…)

APIQWTC is putting together a one-day conference in San Francisco. There will be a number of workshops related to API queer women and transgender issues. For examples, legal issues for domestic partners, parenting (natural birth or adopting), coming out, same-sex domestic violence, butch/femme identity, job information, community resources, and etc. Date and location: to be announced (TBA). Please check our voice mailbox, website, or email us as the date gets closer.

Topics include:

• Legal Documents for Lesbian Couples
• Parenting (adopting and natural birth)
• Adoptee Issues
• Coming Out Issues
• Women's Health
• Domestic Violence
• Mental Health Issues
• Investment and Buying a House
• And MORE!!!!

Oakland has an annual Gay Pride Week, which is always in the last week of August. The evenings will be filled with exciting and colorful ethnic and cultural events culminating in a Mardi Gras on Sunday, September 2. Don’t miss this exciting event on the east bay.

Bring your family and friends to enjoy the fun event! Food, drink, and charcoal will be provided but it will be nice to bring food to share. Kids are wanted!!! Last year, we had 19 kids in the community. This is also a great event to bring your parents or family members. Date, time, and location will be announced as the date gets closer.