Monthly Archives: June 2014

Join us at #ACASPRIDE!!! Complete ACAS World Pride 2014 Event Listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/246731668866866/ ASIAN COMMUNITY AIDS SERVICES (ACAS) RISES UP TO CELEBRATE WORLD PRIDE 2014: Working Toward International Asian LGBTQ and HIV Rights With Human Rights Conference Panels And Weeklong Celebratory Events! Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) is gearing up for this year’s World Pride 2014 with a host of activities in June both aimed at improving the human rights of East and Southeast Asian LGBTQ and HIV communities around the world and community events that promise to be spectacular and festive. Past International Pride Marshals Rosanna Flamer-Caldera (2007) from Sri Lanka and Angie Umbac (2011) from the Philippines, as well as Paul Hsu, Executive Director of the Taiwan Lourdes Association, a non-profit organization providing the much needed support services to persons living with HIV in Taiwan, and representatives from Hotline Taiwan, a national Taiwanese LGBTQ organization, will all be present at the ACAS World Pride 2014 Welcome Reception for Asian Delegates to be held at Holiday Inn Bloor-Yorkville, 280 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V8, on Wednesday, June 25th from 6pm - 9pm. “We encourage allies and supporters to join us at our various ACAS World Pride 2014 events to show our commitment for Asian gay, lesbian, bi, trans, intersex, queer and questioning and HIV+ brothers and sisters in June,” says Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp, Executive Director of Asian Community AIDS services (ACAS). To further promote the human rights of Asian LGBTQs and persons living with HIV locally and internationally, ACAS will be holding two special panels on Asian LGBT Diaspora in Canada andAsian Trans Women in Toronto, as well as taking part in the international panel on Intersectional Approaches to HIV with panelists from Canada, Kenya, Uganda & Brazil during the World Pride Human Rights Conference to be held between June [...]

CelebrAsian: ACAS Celebrates 20 years of community activism and support On behalf of the board and staff members, ACAS would like to thank all our members, allies, donors, volunteers, performers and all of those who had attended the ACAS 20th Anniversary CelebrAsian Fundraising Gala on May 30! It was certainly a memorable night to remember as we celebrated 20 years of community support and activism provided by ACAS to the East and Southeast Asian HIV and LGBTQ communities. Since 1994, ACAS has provided vital support to persons living with HIV/AIDS, a safe space for LGBTQ community members, and education and outreach to underserved migrant farmworkers of East and Southeast Asian communities. Andre Goh, ACAS Board Chair remarks, “ Since 1982, Toronto's LGBTQ East and Southeast Asians have been building a community that is diverse, complex, delicate, yet strong. All this while, the organization we call ACAS has been the public face for this community for three generations.” The evening saw the presentation of two special 20th Anniversary Awards to individuals who espouse the core values and visions of ACAS and have contributed to our organization’s success: The Patrick Truong Award and the Community Builder Award. The Patrick Truong Award, named after our late Support Program staff and AIDS activist, is to honor a person living with HIV/AIDS who has made significant contributions in the areas of HIV/AIDS in Canada or internationally. This year’s Patrick Truong Award recipient is Derek Yee, a fearless community leader and a past board member of ACAS. “Through my involvement with ACAS, I have learnt resiliency in life and have grown as an individual with my community. I am proud of my achievement to speak my truth quietly and clearly,” says Derek Yee. The ACAS 20th Anniversary Community Building Award recipient Dr. Alan Li and The Patrick Truong Award recipient Derek Yee (Photo by Tony [...]

ACAS is pleased to announce two internal job postings for members, volunteers, service users, and current part-time employees. 1. Project Coordinator (Heterosexually Self-identified MSM Outreach) ACAS Internal Job Posting QAY resource dev ACAS Internal Job Posting- Project Coordinator Yurtdışı Yatırım Application Deadline: Thursday, June 19 (midnight) 2. QAY Resource Development Lead ACAS Internal Job Posting QAY resource dev Application Deadline: Monday, June 30 (12 midnight)