All posts tagged "asian"
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Pride & Heritage Hero
Few embody the intersected identities of being gay and being of Asian ethnicity as vividly as Ben de Guzman. Whether serving for a time as...
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Harjant Gill
The Next Generation Awards 2010 Some people turn to drinking and partying to cope with heartbreak. Harjant Gill turned to filmmaking. ''When I started college,...
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Hyacinth Alvaran
The Next Generation Awards 2010 Hyacinth Alvaran's story may have started in the Philippines, but her story is being told most forcefully in here in...
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Linh Hoang
The 2009 Next Generation Awards: Where Are They Now? It's April 20. Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano is spewing airliner-threatening ash into European airspace. Linh Hoang is...
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Meet Evan Low: New mayor of Campbell, CA is Asian, gay, and 26
”I’m passionate and energetic about all things I do. This is not work for me. This is something I enjoy.” Evan Low, 26, the new...
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Thailand to require transgender surgery candidates to wait one year
”It is not necessary. I really didn’t want to go through that process, so I decided to have the operation… before the law is enforce…....
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City government in China opens gay bar to get men out of woods, safer education
“In the past the government relied on to reach out to the gay community…. Now there’s a change, in that some local health...
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Daniel's Choice
Lt. Daniel Choi -- West Point grad, Arabic linguist, platoon leader, Iraq War veteran -- isn't the first soldier to be targeted by the military's...
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Marshall Wong, Los Angeles
Marshall Wong Of those coming to D.C. for the National Equality March, Marshall Wong's face may be one of the more familiar to Washingtonians. Although...
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Pink Praise for A/PI
When Siva ''Shiva'' Subbaraman first got involved in the D.C. GLBT community in the 1980s, things were a lot different for Asian/Pacific Islanders. ''When I...
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Linh Hoang
There is very little to Linh Hoang that is not on the move. Emigrating from Vietnam at age 10, that flight across the Pacific to...
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Khush Klatch
There are few who could claim to have explored the relationships between GLBT South Asians and their parents as deeply as Sonali Gulati. As a...
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An Officer and a Thespian
Antebellum is a story that moves across continents and genders, from World War II to a cinematic memory of the American Civil War. With his...
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Passage to India
Aniruddhan Vasudevan started dancing when he was 6 years old. Twenty years later, it's become a vocation. ''My family is very interested in the arts,...
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Honored with Pride
D.C. Pride and Heritage, a celebration of the local Asian/Pacific Islander GLBT community, honored Metro Weekly May 10 for empowering the local A/PI GLBT community...
