API Equality is pleased to announce its partnership with the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) at San Francisco State University to develop tools and resources for API families to learn how to love and accept their LGBT children.

To start, API Equality wants to talk with API families with LGBT children to ask their advice on developing education materials for families and providers in the community. Families who would like to learn about this new research to help their LGBT children lead healthy and successful lives, and provide advice for these new family education materials should contact Amos Lim at alim [at] caasf [dot] org or (415) 274-6760 ext. 306. Families will receive a stipend for their participation and time.

For more on API Equality’s partnership with FAP, click here.

Nine outstanding young API leaders have been selected for the Helen Zia Fellowship for Social Change. They are Wendy Chuah, Kenny Gong, Maggie Kong, Siddharth P. Kulkarni, Cynthia Liao, Carmina Ocampo, Chibo Shinagawa, Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen, and Daniel Wu. Each were selected on the basis of their leadership potential, commitment to serving their API community, and interest in advancing social justice.

Named after the award-winning journalist, author, and activist, the Helen Zia Fellowship is a 4-month leadership program to train the next generation of API community leaders to effectively advocate for their community’s needs and interests. The program will support the work of progressive organizations that are advocating for fairness and justice in California, including API Equality and Asian Americans for Civil Rights & Equality (AACRE).

For more about the program and fellows, click here.

A coalition of 63 local, state, and national Asian American organizations have filed a legal brief in California in support of equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. The Asian American amicus (friend of the court) brief supports basic fairness for same-sex couples and their families, drawing from the Asian American community’s own past struggle with anti-miscegenation laws in the state of California.

For a copy of the brief, click here.

For more information, click here.