GAPIMNY

Friday, March 18th, 2011 | 8pm
LGBT Community Center
208 W 13th St
New York, NY

Bring your game face because GAPIMNY is hosting a Game Night to benefit the Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami relief effort. You may offer your own support through http://american.redcross.org/Earthquake.

Come out and hang out with your fellow queer API New Yorkers as we get down with Taboo, Wii, Bananagrams, Dominion, Apples to Apples, and who knows how many other games! Roll dice, throw down cards, and swing your Wiimotes for a good cause!

This event is open to all. If you want to bring your own game to share, please shoot an e-mail to rsvp@gapimny.org and tell us what you’re bringing!

Dear Community Member,

Please join GAPIMNY for this year’s AIDS Walk New York on Sunday, May 15th 2011!

We’ll walk, talk, and fundraise towards ending AIDS. Please visit the GAPIMNY team page to join and/or donate!

tinyurl.com/GAPIMNYAIDSWalk11

EVENT INFO:
8:30am: check-in begins
9:15am: opening ceremonies begin
10am: AIDS Walk begins

GAPIMNY will meet in front of the water fountain on 5th Ave between 59th and 58th St (across the street from the Apple Store) by 9:30am.

March 7, 2011

We, the undersigned Queer Asian Pacific Islander groups, are very concerned with the LGBT Community Center’s decision on canceling the scheduled March 5th “Party to End Apartheid” event. The Center has a long history in providing a space, for many LGBTQ and other vulnerable groups, to hold dialogue and give voices to explore conflicts, issues and resolutions. The Siegebusters Working Group, while not identified a LGBTQ group, it is a minority voice seeking to address oppression and deserves a safe space.

In cancelling this event and disallowing Siegebusters Working Group from meeting at the Center, the center comes across as supporting censorship. The LGBTQ movement has always had many voices, and suppressing these voices does not serve to make the center a “safe haven for LGBT groups and individuals.” Social justice and open dialogue has always been a central part of LGBTQ organizing. Many of us in the QAPI Community believe that queer rights are human rights, and therefor human rights issues in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict are inexorably linked to our struggle for queer rights.

We are pleased to know that there will be an open forum to help clarify and possibly amend this decision, and we believe that the outcome will be supported with full consideration of justice. LGBTQ minorities have always found a safe space at the center, and we hope that this space continues to exist for us. Thank you very much.

Your Truly,

SALGA, Q-WAVE & GAPIMNY