• Song That: Cupid's Love
  
  8:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.
  Saturday, February 14, 2004
  Lamour Dance Studio
  1460 Tully Road, Suite 604
  San Jose, California 95122
  
  (inside Tully Business Center on the corner of Tully Road and Zachery Way)
  
  $7/per person at the door
  
  Are you feeling left out on Valentine's Day because you don’t have a date?  Can't think of a fun and gay friendly place to take your date after dinner?  Come see six single contestants competing to win the hearts of our two sexy bachelor and bachelorette in a dating game guaranteed to bring smiles to your face and laughter in your voice. For more information:
  
  
  website:  www.songthat.com
  e-mail:  dongsongthat@yahoo.com
  telephone:  408-476-3977
  
  
  
• NCLR & NIA's Dance Party for Women of Color
  
  Saturday, February 21, 2004
  8pm to midnight
  The REX - 827 Washington St. Oakland
  
  Music by DJ LA Niche From Kaliente spinning oldies, world, hip-hop & latin.   BE THERE !!!
  

• APIQWTC 2004
  Lunar New Year Banquet More Info
   
  Saturday, March 20, 2004
  5:30pm - 9:30pm
  
  Todai Sushi Restaurant
  1901 Junipero Serra Blvd. Suite A
  Daly City, CA 94014
  
  YES, it's the Year of the Monkey! And APIQWTC's lunar new year banquet is on again.  Come see old friends and make new ones. And, the food is guaranteed to be fabulous!!!
  
  Since space is limited, reservations are guaranteed by check only. Please fill out the RSVP form, make your check payable to "API Banquet" by March 6, and mail to:
  
  
  API Banquet
  2226 Parker St
  Berkeley, CA 94704
  
  
  For more information about the banquet, please click here. The tradition continues - a free commemorative mug will be given away at the banquet. This year's design is a top secret!!! :-)
  
  Todai is an upscale All-You-Can-Eat Japanese Seafood Buffet Restaurant, which offers quality food and services at an affordable price. They feature a 160-foot seafood buffet counter with 40 different kinds of sushi, over 15 dishes are served at both the salad bar and hot entree island including lobster, crab legs, and a dessert bar with over 20 different cakes and fruits. Please visit Todai's website, www.todai.com, for more information.
  

As our tradition, a free commemorative mug was given away to all of our guest at the banquet. This year's design is fabulous!!!  If you are interested in purchasing one or more, please feel free to send us an email at apiqwtc@apiqwtc.org.  We are selling it at cost - $2 each and you may pick it up from Koko's house in Oakland. Here is an image of the mug design:

• Queer API Parents & Prospective Parents Forum
   
  Thursday, March 25
  SF LGBT Community Center
  1800 Market St
  San Francisco, CA
  
  In the first of Our Family Coalition’s
  series of gatherings of queer parents of
  color in 2004, Our Family Coalition will host a forum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Asian /Pacific Islander parents and prospective parents. Depending on interest, this group will meet regularly as a safe and welcoming place for A/PI queer parents to build community and discuss issues of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender parenting and race.
  
  Gatherings for queer African American and Hispanic parents and prospective parents will be scheduled for the later part of 2004. RSVP to Aimee at 415-981-1960. Free child care in the Center’s fabulous KidSpace. Light refreshments provided. This event is co-sponserd by APIQWTC and GAPA.
  
  Our Family Coalition promotes the civil rights and well being of families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members through education, advocacy, social networking, and grassroots community organizing. www.ourfamily.org
  
  
  
• AQU25A Events
  
  AQU25A (Asian and Pacific Islander, Queer and Questioning, Under 25 and Under, All Together) is a group for and run by young queer (lesbian, gay, bi, & trans) and questioning Asians, Pacific Islanders, and HAPAS!
  
  All events take place at Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, 730 Polk Street (at Ellis), 4th Floor, SF, unless otherwise stated.
  
  Movie Night! - "Fire"
  Wednesday, 3.24.04, 6-8pm
  
  AQU25WORD* - Part I of a writing workshop series for youth
  Wednesday, 4.14.04, 6-8pm
  
  GSA Network Leadership Training*
  Saturday, 4.17.04, 10am-4pm
  
  Dim Sum and Then Some...*
  Sunday, 4.25.04, 12-2pm
  
  AQU25WORD* - writing workshop, Part II.
  Wednesday, 4.28.04, 6-8pm
  
  "The Color of Love" - Discuss interracial dating
  Wednesday, 5.12.04, 6-8pm
  
  Boba (Bubble Tea) making party
  Wednesday, 5.26.04, 6-8pm
  
  For more information or to RSVP, please contact Sabrina Wu, AQU25A Program Coordinator, at 415.292.3420 x315 or sabrina@apiwellness.org.  Please click here for details on  AQU25A event schedule.   *RSVP required.
  
  



• AB205 & Same-Sex Marriage: Essential Legal Info about Property, Parentage, and Taxes
   
  - SAN FRANCISCO -
  6-8pm, Thursday, April 29
  SF LGBT Community Center
  1800 Market St
  San Francisco, CA
  
  - OAKLAND -
  10am - noon, Saturday, May 22
  James Irvine Foundation Conference Center
  353 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
  Oakland, CA
  
  Our Family Coalition presents A SEMINAR for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People on legal information about property, parentage, and taxes. The workshops will be presented by Alma Soongi Beck, Esq., Deborah Wald, Esq., and Carole Ruwart, Esq. Please click here for a copy of the flyer in PDF format.
  
  These events are FREE OF CHARGE and co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender People's Coalition (APIQWTC), Asociación Gay Unida Impactando Latinos/as A Superarse (AGUILAS), A Group for Latina Lesbian and Bi Women (ELLAS EN ACCIÓN), NIA Collective (for lesbians of African-American heritage), GAPA (Gay Asian Pacific Alliance), Asian / Pacific Islanders Family Pride (API-FP), and hillgirlz.com.
  
  Space is limited, please RSVP. Drop-ins are welcome, but space cannot be guaranteed to people who do not RSVP. RSVPs and inquiries should be directed to Our Family Coalition at (415) 981-1960. On site childcare is available at the San Francisco seminar. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
  
  Six (6) seats will be reserved for members of each co-sponsoring organization until one week before the event, so please specify organizational affiliation when you RSVP. Please email apiqwtc@apiqwtc.org for our seats.
  
  Our Family Coalition promotes the civil rights and well being of families with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members through education, advocacy, social networking, and grassroots community organizing. www.ourfamily.org
  
  
  
• Purple Moon Dance Presents --
  "Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts"
   
  8pm, Saturday, May 15
  3pm, Sunday, May 16
  SomArts Cultural Center
  934 Brannan & 8th St
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Please click here to download the flyer in PDF format. You may also visit Purple Moon's website for more information -- www.purplemoondance.org.
  
  Kularts and Purple Moon Dance Project in association with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center's United Satets of Asian America Fesitval present --
  
    Sayaiu sa Mutya Alleluia Panis Dance Theatre
  
    Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts Purple Moon Dance Project
  
  A new work rooted in teachings on implermanence and cutting through illusion, sculptural movement, intimate imagery and physical stillness... Experience an interior exploration through the terrain of transition, loss, attachment and sympathetic joy.
  



• API Family Pride: Family Presentation Party
   
  Saturday, June 12, 2004
  11am - 3pm
  St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church
  500 De Haro Street (@ Mariposa),
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Adults  $25 - $100 (sliding scale)
  Children up to 13 yr  $10
  
    Mabel Teng, the Assessor for the City and County of San Francisco, is going to be the guest of honor and speaker of the event !!!
  
  For more information or download invite/RSVP form, please goto their website: www.apifamilypride.org.
  
  API Family Pride's first annual "Family Presentation Party" is a way of acknowledging the difficult process that our families have undergone to overcome homophobia and understand and accept
  us as we are.  This is a time to commend the private, personal struggles of love and transformation in our individual families with public acknowledgement from us, their children and a grateful community.
  
  This is a sit-down luncheon with "Family Honor Roll" to acknowledge the support of our parents and siblings, celebrate our "new" families, and honor those organizations and individuals whose visibility has inspired  courage, respect and acceptance of sexual and gender diversity in our community.  Also, there will be family entertainment involving the children of API LGBT people (some of the kids are old enough now to "perform.")
  
  
  
• Queer Women of Color Film Night (FREE)
  presented by 2004 National Queer Arts Festival
   
  Tuesday, June 15
  7:30pm
  Rainbow Room of LGBT Center
  1800 Market @ Octavia,
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Admission is FREE. Refreshments will be served. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
  
  Program duration:  approx. 110 minutes
  Followed by: Q/A Panel with Filmmakers
  
  Join our fabulous emerging filmmakers for the 3rd annual Queer Women of Color FILM NIGHT, as we celebrate art, culture, and resistance of queer women of color and our communities.
  
  This evening's screening features exciting and provocative new films that explores the various connections of home, community and family.
  
  FILMS INCLUDE:
  ~  Sisterz of the Underground: Extra Credit  (Laurie Koh, 2003)
  ~  Every Surface  (Catrina Chaos, 2003)
  ~  A Journey Home  (Mónica Enríquez, 2003)
  ~  We Will Not be Moved!: A Story of Oakland Chinatown  (Ching-In Chen, 2003)
  ~  And You Are?  (Orchid Pusey, 2003)
  ~  Remember  (Proshat Shekarloo, 2003)
  ~  Mixed Messages  (Stephanie Yang, 2003)
  ~  Freak  (Leilani Lumen, 2003)
  ~  Journey of Rice  (Gloria Ng, 2003)
  ~  Baby Love  (Madeleine Lim, 2004)
  
  Program curated by Madeleine Lim
  Contact:  madbullfilms@hotmail.com
  Information:  415.752.0868
  Visit:  www.queerculturalcenter.org for more info.
  
  This event is sponsored by:
  ~  Queer Cultural Center
  ~  Queer Women of Color Media Arts Program (QWOCMAP)
  ~  Queer Asian Women's Services (QAWS)
  
  
  
• "Love, Your Homegirl" & the reception
  co-presented by APIQWTC & Frameline 28: SF Int'l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
   
  Saturday, June 19
  3:15pm
  Herbst Theatre
  401 Van Ness Avenue
  San Francisco, CA
  
  
  
  APIQWTC is pleased to co-present this screening in the upcoming Frameline28: SF Int'l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Q&A Panel and Reception immediately after the screening.
  
  Emerging Bay Area mediamakers serve up fresh reflections of love, homegirl style, in a shorts program that dishes and dices the perspectives of queer women of color with a tasty twist. It’s a feisty buffet of stories about desire, love and community.
  
  SKATE HER, a rebel yell to dominant skateboarding culture, rocks to the joy of a skateboarding addiction. A JOURNEY HOME poetically depicts home, community, and immigration for three queer Latina women in San Francisco. MILA’S WILL: SNAPSHOT OF A FRISCO NATIVE takes a journey between reality and memory through the eyes of a queer girl graffiti artist. REFLECTIONS visually contrasts the different paths that each of us might choose. DRAGON DESIRE is a tale about why the Chinese dragon desires the celestial pearl. LOVE IN CHAOS juxtaposes the definition of perfect love with one couple’s attempt at loving. TROO BLOO is an API queer girl love story that unravels to the beat of 80s pop music and the sweetness of bubble tea.
  
  All works were created through the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) digital video workshops, conducted by award-winning filmmaker Madeleine Lim. QWOCMAP promotes the creation and exhibition of films and videos that reflect the experiences, stories, and lives of queer women of color.
  
  Filmmakers will be present for a Q&A panel after the screening. Program curated by Madeleine Lim.
  
  Admission to reception after film is FREE. Refreshments will be served. The venue is wheelchair accessible. For more info about FRAMELINE28, please go to www.frameline.org/festival
  
  SKATE HER dir Kristin Wygal 2003 USA 8 min video
  A JOURNEY HOME dir Mónica Enríquez 2003 USA 9 min video
  MILA’S WILL: SNAPSHOT OF A FRISCO NATIVE dir Tina Bartolome 2003 USA 10 min video
  REFLECTIONS dir Dominique D. De Guzman 2003 USA 7 min video
  DRAGON DESIRE dir Madeleine Lim 2004 USA 7 min video
  LOVE IN CHAOS dir Narissa Lee 2003 USA 10 min video
  TROO BLOO dir Debbie Ng 2003 USA 3 min video
  
  total running time: 54 min
  
  
  
• San Francisco Dyke March & Pride Parade
  
  Sat & Sun, June 26 & 27
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Come march with APIQWTC in the Dyke March and SF parade on June 26 & 27. Check back for more details.
  
  Fore more info, please visit SF Pride Parade website at www.sfpride.org
  
  




• Summer of Love 2004: A Celebration of Same-Sex Marriage
  
  by Asian & Allies Rally for Marriage Equality
   
  Sunday, August 8
  11:30am - 1:30pm
  Larsen Park
  19 Ave. between Wawona & Ulloa
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Several organizations, such as GAPA, APACE, API Wellness, EQ/MECA, NCLR, and APIQWTC, are sponsoring a large same-sex marriage rally to give a voice and face to the Asian LGBT community.
  
  Please come and join Mabel Teng and other notable speakers for a rally on August 8 and come help support civil rights for all. We need all the support we can get.
  
  There are two anti-same sex rallies already in the works (San Jose and Washington DC) by the same people who orchestrated the 7,000 Christian Asian protest against same-sex marriage back in April, 2004 staged in the Sunset District. We need to let people know that not all Asians are this bigoted!
  
  We still need VOLUNTEERS to make this rally a success and to show that the API Women and Trans community is willing to do our part in the fight for EQUAL RIGHTS! Please consider dedicating some time to a cause that effects all of us and future generations to come.
   
  PLEASE CONTACT:
   
  Cj Jiang, Steering Committee Member
  email - xcjjiangx@yahoo.com, cell - 415-577-5838
  
  Jennifer Lin, Volunteer Coordinator
  email -  jaelle@alum.mit.edu
  
  
  
• Are you Ready for AB205?
  
  Property, Taxes and Parentage Issues
  for California Domestic Partners
  
  
  OAKLAND
  Saturday, July  31 & Sept 25
  11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  
        Bananas
        Second Floor (enter from back of building)
        5232 Claremont Avenue, Oakland
  
  SAN FRANCISCO
  Wednesday, August 25 & October 6
  6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  
        LGBT Community Center
        Rainbow Room
        1800 Market Street, San Francisco
  
  To RSVP or be put on our mailing list, please contact either: Aimee Fisher at (415) 981-1960 or Alma León at lawclerk@beckesq.com
  
  THESE EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE
  
  Speakers:
  
  Alma Soongi Beck, Esq., Estates, Trusts and Property (www.beckesq.com) Emily Doskow, Esq. (OAK) and Deborah Wald, Esq. (SF), LGBT Parentage,
        Adoption, and Surrogacy
  Carole Ruwart, Esq., Tax Attorney for Carole Migden, Chairwoman of the
        State Board of Equalization
  
  ** CHILDCARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST **
  
  
  
• *Joyful Body* - Movement/Meditation/Manopause
  a new workshop by Purple Moon Dance Project
  
  *JOYFUL BODY*
  Movement/Meditation/Menopause
  Session One: Balance
  
  5:30pm - 7:00pm
  Tuesdays, Aug 24 & 31 and
  Tuesdays, Sept 14, 21, & 28
  PMDP Studio
  465 10th Street, #302
  San Francisco, CA
  
  For registration/information, please call 415.552.1105.
  
  Women of color, lesbians and friends — access the energetic potential of this new phase of your life.  Whether you are facing menopause, feeling it, or floundering through its after-effects, you can access your body’s own wisdom to find balance. 
  
  Purple Moon Dance Project’s Artistic Director Jill Togawa, an experienced dancer/choreographer and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, combines gentle body movement, breath-work, meditation and yoga grounded in a safe, sensitive and culturally-diverse perspective. 
  
  Beginning with an exploration of natural balance, other five-week sessions in the ongoing series will explore such qualities of the menopausal transition as change and flexibility, loss and liberation, opportunity and potential. 
  
  $25 covers the five-class session; sliding scale is available; class size/registration is limited.
  
  Responses from participants:
  
  
  "Even though I don't set aside a time to practice what has been introduced in the class, I find that what we have done in class is carried over to my everyday awareness"
  
  "When I walk, I feel like I am floating more than trudging along."
  
  "Not having taken a dance class as an adult, I am experiencing my body in a totally different way."
  
  "Thank you for the peace that is shared with us..."



• API Family Pride's
  6th Annual Kids' BBQ
  
  
  Sunday, September  19th
  11am - 3pm
  Roberts Regional Recreation Area
  Oakland, CA
  Sycamore site
  
  Adults:  $7 -10 sliding scale donation
  Kids: Free
  Parking: $4 per vehicle
  
  Come meet other API queer families and friends, espeically  the new babies and moms! Bring your paretns grandparents & children, too! There will be a BBQ, games, playground, and access to a swimming pool!!!
  
  Hot Dogs, Hamburgers,Buns, Juiece & Drinks Provided. But please bring Something to Share
  
  Sponsored by: API Family Pride (formerly API-PFLAG Family Project). For questions and/or RSVP: Amy Haruyama 510-482-4743 or Koko Lin 510-912-1210.  Direction to the park: www.ebparks.org and click parks and trails.
  
  
  
• The 2004 Miss Trans Globe Pageant
   
  Saturday, September 18
  7:00 PM
  Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
  3301 Lyon Street
  San Francisco, CA
  
  A benefit for the Filipino Task Force on AIDS. Featuring your mistresses of ceremony:
  
  Tita Aida and Viktoria La Voovah with Miss Vi Ling Nam, Miss Trans Globe 2003
  
  $25.00 advance purchase.
  $30.00 at the door.
  
  $35.00 for Reserved Seating.
  $40.00 at the door
  
  Please call the Filipino Task Force on AIDS to purchase your tickets (Visa and Mastercard accepted) 415 920-2630
  
  The Search for FTFAs Transgender Spokesmodel !!!
  
  
  
• Oakland United Against Bush
  
  Thursday, September 2nd
  Rally: 5pm
  San Antonio Park
  Foothill Blvd between 16th & 18th Street
  Oakland, CA
  
  "In solidarity with people around the world protesting the RNC and who have resisted fiercely everyday against the brutal Bush regime over the last 4 years, we invite all sisters and brothers to OAKLAND UNITED AGAINST BUSH. The night that George W. Bush receives the nomination from the Republican National Convention, we will take to the streets. Because George W. Bush is the greatest immediate threat to people of color in the United States and abroad. We must play a historic role in contributing to the mass dissent that will result in Bush being voted out of office."  --- Siafu
  
  Organized by Siafu, collective of organizers and activists from the San Francisco Bay Area who have come together in our opposition to George W. Bush and U.S. imperialism.  As a group of people of color, women, queer and transgendered people and white anti-racist allies, we are looking to stand with the people of the world to reclaim our future.
  
  Gather at Fruitvale BART at 4, March to San Antonio Park at 5 for following rally  (Fruitvale BART is at 12 St/35th Ave and San Antonio Park is off of Foothill Blvd between 16th and 18th Streets)
  
  
  
• Meet the Candidates for School Board
  
  Sunday, September 12th
  4:30 - 6:30pm
  MCC San Francisco
  150 Eureka St
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Line up includes Eric Mar, Jane Kim, and Mark Sanchez
  
  
  
• Rice Bowl & Dragon Boat Racing
  
  Saturday, September 25th
  10am - 5pm
  West Shore of Lake Merced
  1 Harding Way
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Co-sponsored by APIQWTC, GAPA & SBQA. We will run the picnic festivities simultaneously with the dragon boat races at Lake Merced.
  
  Come early to cheer on  the API LGBT Dragon Boat Team -- "Rainbow Koi"  !!!
  
  Share good times with old friends and make new ones at this festive semi annual event!  Light snacks will be provided and international food will be available.  See you there!  Bring your friends and family and don't forget the sunscreen!
   
  Interested in dragon boat racing?
  
  Hey! come join a mixed (sex) boat for some races (two, three, four? depends on how well the boat does) on Sept 25 at Lake Merced. The mixed boat needs at least 8 women (out of 20 paddlers).
  
  For those of you who've tried out dragon boat racing, and need a nice short-term goal, this is your chance! This is the last tournament of the season! If you haven't yet tried it out, it's great exercise and community and fun!
  
  Each race takes about 3 minutes and the "strongest" boats don't necessarily finish first! If you're in good aerobic shape, great! Exercise a few new muscles! If you're strong, great! Here's a test of your aerobic capacity! If you're neither, great! Here's a way to have fun with a little exercise and cultural purpose thrown in!
  
  For more info, contact cj jiang (APIQWTC) xcjjiangx@yahoo.com
  jean danao (GAPA) jean_vianney1974@yahoo.com
  
  Practices: 1:30pm on Sunday, 9/12 & 9/19
  Registration Fee: $10
  
  You need to sign up by Sep 8, and practices (at least one, preferably both) are September 12 and 19 at 1:30 pm at Lake Merced (SF). Races will be Sep 25, probably between 9 am and 4 pm. Races amongst club teams (recreational and competitive divisions) will continue on sunday
  
  You should show up in comfortable clothes (be prepared for bright sun or fog in SF), be prepared to get wet (try not to wear cotton), wear old sneakers or water shoes, bring an old pair of workout/biking gloves, and a bottle of water. you will receive instruction on how to paddle (do your ab crunches and lunges now!), and some basic water safety info. Please visit  www.cdba.org for more info.
  
  
• March and Rally
  
  SPEAK OUT Against Racism and Discrimination
  STAND UP for Inclusion
  
  Friday, October 1
  5PM
  Meet at the LGBT Community Center
  1800 Market St (at Octavia)
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Come and march with us!!!  :-)
  
  Organized by: Black Rap, And Castro for All, API Queer Women and Transgender Coalition (APIQWTC), ANSWER, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the SF LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, GAPA & others
  
  Co-sponsored by: AIDS Emergency Fund, AIDS Housing Alliance, Alice B.Toklas Democratic Club, Breast Cancer Emergency Fund, Community United Against Violence (CUAV), In Partnership Consulting, Inc., Lavender Caucus of SEIU, LGADDA, LYRIC, Marriage Equality CA, BAAI-TS, Positive Resource Center,  Men of All Colors Together, Nia Collective, Pride at Work, Queers for Peace and Justice, SF Gay Men's Chorus, SF Lesbian Chorus, Sistahs Steppin' in Pride, the UC Berkeley School of Law Queer Caucus & many others
  
  
•  Are you Ready for AB205?
  
  Property, Taxes and Parentage Issues
  for California Domestic Partners
  
  
  OAKLAND
  Saturday, July  31 & Sept 25
  11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  
        Bananas
        Second Floor (enter from back of building)
        5232 Claremont Avenue, Oakland
  
  SAN FRANCISCO
  Wednesday, August 25 & October 6
  6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
  
        LGBT Community Center
        Rainbow Room
        1800 Market Street, San Francisco
  
  To RSVP or be put on our mailing list, please contact either: Aimee Fisher at (415) 981-1960 or Alma León at lawclerk@beckesq.com
  
  THESE EVENTS ARE FREE OF CHARGE
  
  Speakers:
  
  Alma Soongi Beck, Esq., Estates, Trusts and Property (www.beckesq.com) Emily Doskow, Esq. (OAK) and Deborah Wald, Esq. (SF), LGBT Parentage,
        Adoption, and Surrogacy
  Carole Ruwart, Esq., Tax Attorney for Carole Migden, Chairwoman of the
        State Board of Equalization
  
  ** CHILDCARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST **
  
  
  
•  Queer Vietnamese event in San Jose
    Organized by Song-That Radio Station
  
  Saturday, October 2
  7 PM - 11PM
  Billy De Frank center
  938 The Alameda, San Jose
  Cost: $15.00
  
  Program includes:
  Vietnamese Traditional Dance, Indian Culutural Dance, Vietnamese Opera, Skit, Fashion show, Hip-hop and many more
  
  Please click the flyer image on the right for more details.
  
  This is a major event for the Queer Vietnamese community. All proceeds of this event will go to Song-That Radio Station. It is the one and only radio station that broadcast news and information by and for Queer Vietnamese in this country. Hope y'all can come out and support the community next Saturday.
  
  
  
•  Out In Oakland! Oct 10
  
  Sunday, October 10
  3:00pm - 7:00pm
  Lake Merritt Parkside District
  East 18th Street & Lakeshore (across from Merritt Bakery Restaurant)
  
  Out In Oakland! is a free LGBT community celebration in Oakland's Lake Merritt Parkway District.
  
  FREE ADMISSION
  
  On the Eve of National Coming Out Day, October 11, COME ONE - COME ALL!! Come visit Oakland and have an Oaktown experience!! Entertainment including BETTY, Linda Tillery, Momma's Boyz, Deep Dickollective, Julia Serano.
  
  FOOD, BOOTHS, Children's Activities, Merchants Open House.
  SAVE THE DATE!!!
  
  For more info, www.business2oakland.com/parkwaypride
  
  



•  Same-Sex Salsa Workshop
  with Tara Acevedo of Socialsalsa.com
  
  Saturday October 16, 1-3pm
  Saturday October 23, 1-3pm
  
  Upaya Center for Wellbeing
  478 Santa Clara Ave., 3rd floor, Oakland
  (Across from the Grand Lake Theater)
  
  Learn the fundamentals of salsa in this 2 day, 4 hour workshop.  Tara will teach you about rhythm, timing, balance, connection, footwork, and partnering patterns. You will be ready to dance salsa socially after only 4 hours of instruction.
  
  $50 for two day workshop
  $30 for one day
  
  Register:  To confirm space please e-mail Tara at socialsalsa@yahoo.com or call (510) 649-7522
  
  Class size limit: 20 students. No partner required.
  
  Wear comfortable clothes and shoes with a non-skid marking sole.
  *Preference given to students who register in advance  and sign up for two days of workshop instruction !!!
  
  
  
  

Climb Against the Odds - Mt. Shasta 2004 will represent a team of climbers working together to reach the summit and help prevent breast cancer. This highly visible expedition will raise awareness and funding to support The Breast Cancer Fund's mission to identify -- and advocate for elimination of -- the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. This inspirational team will strive to raise $500,000 over the next 9 months along with training for their mountaineering expidition.

The team follows in the tradition of The Breast Cancer Fund's past expeditions: Mt. Aconcagua, Argentina in 1995; Alaska's Mt. McKinley in 1998; Mt Fuji, Japan in 2000; and Mt. Shasta, California in 2003. Each climb not only proved each climber's determination to fight breast cancer, but also brought worldwide attention to the breast cancer epidemic. Through these climbs and related projects, The Breast Cancer Fund has raised over $3 million in support of our work to end breast cancer. Prevention Starts Here.