News Archive

2017 APIQWTC Scholarship Awardee!

Posted on Apr 8, 2017 in News Archive, Scholarship Awardees

Congratulations to our 2017 APIQWTC scholarship awardee, Victoria Cheng! Victoria Cheng is a radical person with strong beliefs in sustainability and justice. As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, Victoria studies energy systems controls and optimization in hopes that we, as a society, can achieve energy equity and energy sustainability in the near future. Outside of coursework and research, Victoria is an active and vocal advocate for womxn in STEM, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial equality, reminding and educating others about intersectional issues. Victoria is also one of the organizers for the...

2017 APIQWTC Rooster Banquet

Posted on Feb 28, 2017 in News Archive, Past Banquets, Past Events

Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Rooster! Celebrate the new year with us at APIQWTC’s 30th banquet!

Tickets on Sale Now!

Posted on Feb 11, 2017 in News Archive

Happy Lunar New Year of the Fire Rooster!
The banquet will be hosted at Mission Rehearsal event space also known as “Sons of Italy” and “5051 Mission” in the Excelsior District of San Francisco.
Buy your tickets before they sell out!

Last Call for APIQWTC’s 30th Lunar New Year Banquet Entertainers!

Posted on Feb 9, 2017 in News Archive

The Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community is looking for talent of all types to perform at our annual Lunar New Year banquet to be held in April 22, 2017 (San Francisco).
Submission Deadline – Sun. 2/19

Call for Banquet Mug Design Submissions!

Posted on Feb 9, 2017 in News Archive

<b>Calling all artists!!!</b> APIQWTC is looking for artwork for the 30th Lunar New Year Banquet mug (given to every person attending the event)! Poster artists, street artists, illustrators, graphic designers, painters, woodblock artists, screen printers, etc. You know who you are!!

Show your talent! Make multiple submissions, let your artistic friends know!

The Dragon Fruit Project Digital Portal is now LIVE!

Posted on Nov 9, 2016 in Dragon Fruit Project, News Archive

Image Description: Two APIENC community members browsing the Dragon Fruit Project Digital Portal on a Google Chromebook; a historical timeline of LGBTQ API movements is in the background; taken at the 10/23 Digital Portal Launch Party (photo credits: Mary Luong) The Dragon Fruit Project is an intergenerational oral hxstory project that explores queer Asians and Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Since 2013, volunteers have engaged with our queer Asian and Pacific Islander hxstories by recording, transcribing, and disseminating over...