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#48: Five Simple Steps | Nancy Podcast | WNYC Studios:

KATHY: On the 12th floor, we walk into a place called “Tongzhi Hotline.” The “Hotline” is an inclusive LGBTQ center that runs all kinds of programs for the queer community in Taipei. And it’s literally in an apartment. There are

“People Like Us” is a Singaporean web series following the lives of four gay men in Singapore, the sexual escapades and relationships that unfold between them, and critical health issues:

So, it’s Friday night, possibly the most important day on the #gayagenda. Rai, Joel, Ridzwan & Issac are prepping themselves before heading out.

Follower Fridays is a series of profiles highlighting members of Gaysian Third Space to showcase the diversity of gaysians in the Community. This week’s featured member is @itagaki

Who are you?

Hi it’s me, as others would call me, Crabby! Or just Daniel, that’s okay too. Your simple, everyday, crustacean based

#Pride30: Social Entrepreneur Trang Tran creates welcoming space for LGBTQ Vietnamese:

Trang Tran is bringing LGBTQ Vietnamese people closer with their loved ones through traditional cuisine. In 2016, the advocate founded QTViet Cafe. With events like the Intergenerational Feast of Resistance, the Oakland-based, pop-up cafe is a gathering place for LGBTQ

FADER Cover Story: Yaeji:

When she produces, Yaeji says she feels an intuitive pull towards house music, which she describes as “neither positive nor negative,” “emotional and nostalgic,” and “energetic.” “I’m always drawn to the same feelings,” she says. “I just end up there somehow every time. Some people say

The London-based magazine Boyz previews the best of Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival‘s selection of films for 2018.

With the festival’s concerted effort to ensure diversity in its programme, the Gaysians partner has included a selection of excellent LGBT film.

Boyz writer, Jack Cline, reveals his preferred three films in the

Gaysians co-founder Laks Mann appeared in an article from Thomson Reuters Foundation, which covered an interview with Indian actor, Manoj Bajpayee, during the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival 2018.  

Bajpayee discussed the need for increased screen time of LGBT characters in Bollywood movies to help bring about a shift

Gaysians co-founder Laks Mann appeared in an article from Thomson Reuters Foundation, which covered an interview with Indian actor, Manoj Bajpayee, during the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival 2018.  

Bajpayee discussed the need for increased screen time of LGBT characters in Bollywood movies to help bring about a shift

Follower Fridays is a series of profiles highlighting members of Gaysian Third Space to showcase the diversity of gaysians in the Community. This week’s featured member is @pabloplecosto.

Who are you?

Hey! I’m Jing Jing, a genderqueer, bi/pan, polyamorous, nerdy, sappy, and friendly Chinese American junior in high school. I try

Follower Fridays is a series of profiles highlighting members of Gaysian Third Space to showcase the diversity of gaysians in the Community. This week’s featured member is @anonymous033.

Who are you?

My name is Sophie. I’m a fourth-/fifth-generation Chinese Malaysian, and I identify as queer or bisexual interchangeably. One of the

How To Tackle Loneliness If You’re LGBTQIA+:

An excerpt:

“A lot of our clients feel that as they have aged, they have been pushed to the wayside,“ Katharine says. “Between them they have an incredible pool of experience, skills and wisdom, but instead of being valued they feel overlooked or

thegaysiandiaries:

Dear Diary,

I’m claustrophobic, and large groups of people scare me. I also smoke like a chimney and have an unhealthy devotion to caffeine. All of this, made this morning’s stroll through the madness of Times Square after a hearty breakfast consisting of a) four American Spirit cigarettes, b)

scissortailedsaint:

a collections of links to readings on asian-american gay and lesbian history

“Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970s-1980s,” Trinity A. Ordona, in Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, 2003 [starts on p. 319]

“Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual

“Desi Dhamaka” Protests at Madison Square Park:

Originally known as the South Asian Gay Association (SAGA) when it formed in 1989, the volunteer-based organization was renamed the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) two years later when several women joined. SALGA currently serves Desi LGBT people who trace their

Follower Fridays is a series of profiles highlighting members of Gaysian Third Space to showcase the diversity of gaysians in the Community. This week’s featured member is @princecupcake.

Who are you?

My American name is Scott, and my Korean name is Yesun. I’m a half Korean, half ethnically Jewish man

Call Me By My Name: Queerness and Ownership:

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I’ve never considered adopting a nickname that’s friendlier to American ears. For many in the queer community, choosing a new name for ourselves can feel like claiming power over our own identity. To me, abandoning the name I was given at

English Isn’t Enough: The Bakla, Two Spirits, and Hijra

letters-to-charles:

It doesn’t matter how many times I come out to my parents—my heart always breaks. 

I first came out about 8 years ago and was thrown away. 18 years of my parents’ unconditional love undone in a few simple words. 

Mom, Dad, I’m gay. 

—

I left for a long

How To Be A Bad Asian: Turning Out Gay:

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You see, there’s really only one way I’m a bad Asian and only one way that my parents thought that I failed them. And it’s the one thing about myself that I hid from them for the longest time. It’s