Asian American / Pacific Islander (AAPI)
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Proud Parent Ally, Author, Public Speaker, founder of Okaeri
Pasadena, CA
Marsha Aizumi was born on May 28, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. Her parents were originally from Southern California, but were displaced to the midwest from...
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Writer, actor, HIV educator, meditation teacher
Los Angeles, CA
Noel Alumit was born on January 1, 1968 in Baguio City, Philippines. Noel’s family moved to Boston when he was 2 years old when his...
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Asian-American Sexual Minority Professor and Researcher
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Connie Chan was born on January 16, 1954 in Hong Kong. Her father owned a stevedoring company in Shanghai, but in the wake of communism...
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Immigrant, Transgender Social Justice Advocate
San Francisco, CA
Cecilia Chung was born on July 28, 1965 in Hong Kong to her Catholic mother, Dawning, and her father, William. Cecilia often found herself challenging...
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FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GLITS
Ozone Park, Queens, NY
Brooklyn-born Ceyenne Doroshow grew up in a traditional Black middle-class family, religious and conservative to a fault. Her mother was an educator and neighborhood staple,...
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Psychologist, advocate for AAPI and LGBTQ+ mental health
Los Angeles, CA
Terry Gock was born in Hong Kong on August 10, 1951. His family owned a large Shanghai department store, so Terry and his brother grew...
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bisexual/feminist activist and author
Cazadero, CA
Lani Ka’ahumanu was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lani is known today as one of the major...
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KAUAI COUNCIL MEMBER AND PRIDE MARSHAL
Anahola, HI
KipuKai L.P. Kuali’i was born on Kauai, in Lihue, Hawaii, on March 17, 1962, to a Native Hawaiian father and a Portuguese mother. His parents...
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South Asian LGBTQ+ activist; Trikone co-founder
San Jose, CA
Arvind Kumar was born on January 1, 1956, in Varanasi, India. Growing up in a joint family in Bihar, he had a conservative Hindu grandfather...
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AAPI lesbian activist; ceiling-smashing civil servant
Temple City, CA
June Lagmay was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles. In high school in 1968, she and Rita Romero...
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Mala Nagarajan and Vega Subramaniam
South Asian activists, founders of Trikone Northwest
Laurel, MD
Vega Subramaniam was born in Madras (now Chennai), India in 1965. Her family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when she was three, and later to West...
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"Mother" to many; transgender rights advocate
Downey, CA
Guest interviewer Rain Valdez recorded Karina Samala’s oral history for OUTWORDS in 2022. Rain Valdez is an actress, writer, producer, and out and proud Filipino...
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transgender Buddhist teacher
Elmsford, NY
Hoshina Seki was born in 1941 in New York City. Three years earlier, her father, a Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist minister, had founded the New York...
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Chinese-American poet, Gay Games gold medalist
Oakland, CA
Kitty Tsui was born in Hong Kong in 1952 and spent her childhood there and in London before moving with her family to San Francisco...
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