DC Pride and Heritage 2008

Come network with fellow LGBT Asian/South Asian/Pacific Islander folks from the metro DC area, and celebrate API Heritage month.

When: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 6pm to 9pm
Where: Club Apex
1415 22nd St NW, Washington DC, 20037
Metro: Dupont Circle Red Line

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Oregon: The DisOrient Asian American Film Festival

The DisOrient Asian American Film Festival and Basic Rights Oregon proudly present “Arranged Family Secrets,” a program of exciting new shorts, both documentary and narrative, produced by Asian American GLBTQ directors.

WHEN: Sunday, April 27, from 1 - 3 pm
WHERE: Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 East 13th Ave. in Eugene, Oregon
WHAT: The six films are:

• “Summer” directed by Hong Khaou, UK”
• “Can You Keep a Secret?” directed by Jay Esguerra;
• “Lead Role: Father” directed by PJ Raval;
• “Milind Soman Made me Gay” directed by Harjant Gill;
• “Modern Day Arranged Marriage” directed by Rehana Mirza;
• “In God’s House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church” directed by Lina Hoshino.
  

WHY: To get rid of secrets at the family level so that the struggle for human rights and dignity can be waged out in the public political arena.

DisOrient website

Basic Rights Oregon website

Thailand's secret history

About 2,000 books, magazines, photo albums, video tapes, movie and audio CDs relating to homosexuals fill the small room that is the country's only library dedicated to documenting the local gay community.

Called the Thai Queer Resource Centre (TQRC), it was founded by Australian scholar Assoc Prof Peter Jackson with the aim of preventing the history and voice of the Thai GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) community from erosion by the state.

Authorities view material that reflects the lives of the Thai GLBT community as immoral and illegal, which must be destroyed.

Hence his effort to set up the Thai Queer Resources Centre to collect as many publications as possible before the police and ill-informed government policies lead to them being destroyed.

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