Featuring Marsha Aizumi and her son, Aiden.

The Asian Pride Project, based in New York City, participated during the 2012 National Queer Asian Pacific Alliance Conference in Washington, D.C.  Parent participants from different parts of the nation delivered public service announcements and messages in their own Asian language that was addressed to other parents and families of API LGBT.  Currently, these videos are in the editing phase.  Bilingual messages in Chinese and Tagalog are among the featured.  The Asian Pride Project is an online space to share stories and experiences with each other, in all languages, in pictures, sounds, and words

Coming Out, Coming Home was first distributed in 1996 to help API families with LGBT members in their coming out process and respecting the privacy of each home. The film features interviews with API parents and their LGBT children who relate their struggles with acceptance and coming out. 
This project is to update the film to better reflect the sexual, gender, and ethnic diversity of today's Asian-American community. The update will feature families with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning children from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian, and Vietnamese families.

In April 2012, the steering committee of the Asian Pride Project, including honorees Suma Reddy (second from left) and Elena Chang (third from right) were honored by the White House as LGBT activists in the "Champions for Change" Initiative for their work to promote LGBT acceptance. They’re supporting their peers navigating family, culture, and language differences by sharing their experiences online on the Asian Pride Project.

The following documentary films Anyone and Everyone and In God's House feature Harold and Ellen Kameya:

The Rev. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng is the Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He is a contributor to the Religion and the Gay Voices sections of the Huffington Post, and he has served as an ordained minister with the Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) for over a decade.

Cheng is the founder and coordinator of Queer Asian Spirit, an international and interfaith network of queer people of Asian descent and allies who are interested in religious and spiritual issues.  He is a member of the Emerging Queer Asian Religion Scholars group (EQARS), and he has also spoken at the 2009 and 2012 national conferences of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA).  Cheng has conducted workshops and retreats for the queer Asian communities in Boston, Hong Kong, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Cheng’s research interests relate to the intersections of sexuality, race, ethics, and theology. His first book, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, provides an accessible guide to queer theology. His subsequent book,From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ, reclaims the doctrines of sin and grace for queer people and their allies who have been wounded by such doctrines in the past. Most recently, Cheng published Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit, which is the first book that brings together theological voices from various queer of color communities.

Cheng holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College.  For more information about him, please see his website at:  http://www.patrickcheng.net.

The theme for the 2012 NQAPIA conference was:  Presence, Power, and Progress.  Three parents among our SGV API PFLAG group participated through videos with the Asian Pride Project, workshop delivery, the first-ever Parent Convening Panel, and representing Asian-American parents supporting their LGBT children as advocates for a more understanding society.  From Southern CA:  Marsha and Tad Aizumi and Carol Mannion.  From NYC: Clara and Yoon.

Filmmaker Quentin Lee has released China's first-ever pro-LGBT PSA on QueerComrades.com with the help of a volunteer cast and crew. The PSA has been made to stream on mobile devices and was produced with the help of Xiaogang Wei, the founder of China's first AIDS walk.

The PSA, created in a short fictional format, follows a gay man and a lesbian who decide to marry one another to appease the woman's conservative parents.

The orchestration of fake marriages as a way to escape societal pressure is a story all-too-common within China’s LGBTQ+ community.

Reportedly, an estimated 70 percent of all gay men in China marry women, resulting in about 16 million women who are now labelled 'tongqi', which would loosely translate to 'homo-wife'. Homosexuality is still very controversial in China (it was listed as a mental illness until 2001) and many people enter into heterosexual marriages just to appease their families and to have children.