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Posts by bobby

2011 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardees!

Posted on Jan 20, 2013 in News Archive, Scholarship Awardees

Wen Liu and Estelle Davis have won this year’s APIQWTC scholarships. Congratulations to both for their impressive accomplishments! Wen Liu is a queer Taiwanese community organizer and graduate student in  the Social-Personality Psychology Ph.D. Program at the City University  of New York, Graduate Center. As an undergraduate at University of  Washington, Wen co-founded  the Queer People of Color Alliance, Youth for Middle East, and Chinese  Speaking Queers. Wen additionally worked as a programming coordinator at  Q Center, the LGBT resource center, advocating particularly for queer ...

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Christopher Lee

Posted on Jan 15, 2013 in News Archive, Past Events

September 4, 1964 ― December 22, 2012

MEMORIAL WEEKEND

Celebration of Christopher’s Life
SAT FEB 2 | San Francisco

Healing & Release Ceremony
SUN FEB 3 | Berkeley

In a wonderful display of unconditional support and an outpouring of love, many of us have come together to organize a memorial weekend that will celebrate and honor the life and legacy of Christopher Lee. On Saturday, February 2nd, we will hold a celebratory gathering at El Rio. This will be followed by a Healing & Release Ceremony on Sunday, February 3rd at the Center for Transformative Change in Berkeley.

Please join us for this memorial weekend as we honor, celebrate and send Christopher off in a loving and powerful way.

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Perform for APIQWTC Spring 2013 Banquet!!!

Posted on Jan 4, 2013 in News Archive

CALL FOR PERFORMERS:  Can you belt a tune? Dance on your toes? Walk on water? If you are a poet, magician, comedian, dancer, or an artist, we want YOU! The Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community is looking for talent of all shapes, sizes, and ages to perform at our annual Spring banquet on April 20th, 2013 in Oakland. Every year, we have over 300 community members attend, including those of family, children, lovers, and friends. It is a great time to come together to enjoy each others company as well as our talented members of the community. Priority will be given to...

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DESIGN CONTEST for APIQWTC Banquet Mug 2013

Posted on Jan 4, 2013 in News Archive

Deadline for submissions: January 18, 2013 Submit your Year of the Snake Mug Design for the upcoming APIQWTC Lunar Banquet. Imagine, your mug could touch the lips of hundreds of API queers! Send us your mug design (or sample graphic design work). For design specs and other contest details, please contact . Final design will be selected my the Banquet Committee

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South Lake Tahoe Trip

Posted on Jan 3, 2013 in News Archive, Past Events

This event is sold-out! Thanks everyone!

Friday 1/6/12 – Sunday 1/8/12 (two nights)

Richardson House

Camp Richardson, South Lake Tahoe

APIQWTC and Omusubi are going to South Lake Tahoe On Jan 6-8, 2012!

Love Tahoe long-time? First-timer?  Either way, find your magical winterland fun with us — whether it’s skiing, boarding, photo-taking, snowshoeing, snowperson-building, or “cabineering” (cozy-cabin-relaxing, cooking, eating, games-playing)!

Don’t miss out on this special weekend!  APIQWTC is co-organizing this trip with Omusubi (our fellow organization for queer and trans women of Japanese descent).There is room for 20 people at our reserved mega-cabin, the marvelous Richardson House at historic Camp Richardson.  We expect these spaces to fill quickly.   RSVP with deposit must be received by the event organizer by December 14 firm.

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