SLAM! Men’s Program

Manager of Education & Outreach: Ryan Tran SLAM Forum Project Lead: Greg Wong

SLAM! (Sex, Love, Asian Men!) is the ACAS Men’s Program for Asian gay, bi, and queer cis and trans men who have sex with men (MSM). The program’s goal is to address the sexual health and well-being of Asian men by increasing HIV/STI prevention awareness, promote harm reduction, and create a safe space for discussions around our community’s lived experiences with sex, love, relationships, and cultural identities.

Asian Bathhouse Night came back in action this year at Spa Excess, thanks to our new and returning volunteers. Our monthly Humpday event provides a safe sober space for guys to connect and build community through social activities. With the opening of a new health hub, we moved our monthly sexual health workshops (newly dubbed Sex EducAsian) to HQ. The online SLAM Forum organized this year by Greg Wong invited special queer Asian guests ranging in various sexual health topics that engaged the queer Asian community. Monkeypox vaccine clinics were run at ACAS with much positive feedback to our welcoming environment and timely response to address the impending outbreak. A new partnership was formed with Freddie to support our sexual health activities.

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Asian MSM attended the online SLAM Forum

11 educational workshops were given

6 social events were held

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Asian MSM were given one-on-one support regarding sexual health and/or connected to services and resources

Testimonials

"I would say your services provide more than sexual health information to people out there. I've always been thankful for the community your program fostered. And in these trying times, where people feel isolated and alone - it's the kind of work that is needed to bridge/connect people. You're definitely doing important and needed work in my opinion!!!"

“Thank you Ryan. This is by far the most helpful info I received. I really appreciated your assistance!”

“Attended a sexual health workshop run by Ryan from ACAS Toronto. It was great Ryan was very professional, friendly and was able to provide those of us who attended with great information. And if you want your own HIV self-Testing kit they will send it out to you. Honestly I just happened to catch this workshop and it was very informative and delivered in a professional friendly environment.”