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Saturday, March 29, 2014 Salaam Bombay New York City

THANK YOU! Community Catalyst Host Committee Bex Ahuja Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Saurabh Bajaj Mark Ro Beyersdorf CAAAV Anj Chaudhry Dari Project Dennis Chin Trishala Deb / Sonia Munshi Ben de Guzman Stephanie Hsu Human Rights Campaign Lambda Legal

Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens Aries Liao Glenn D. Magpantay Mari Morimoto Piali Mukherjee Pauline Park PFLAG-NYC / Clara Yoon Phillip Ozaki Russell Roybal Rohan Sheth Jason Tseng Kit Yan Kamlesh, Harcharan and Amit Bagga

CATALYST SPONSORS

Former GAPIMNY Steering Committee Members in Memory of Alain Dang Arcus Foundation Stonewall Foundation Verizon Foundation Catalyst Awards Planning Committee Members Stephanie Hsu Eli Rhee Glenn D. Magpantay Anu Singh Karen Naimool Andrew Sinuon Phillip Ozaki Ryan Shen Rakesh Patel Jason Tseng Graphic Designer: Daniel Velรกsquez Photographer: Corky Lee 2

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Congratulations to the honoreesNamita Chad, Andy Marra, and QWAVE. I salute GAPIMNY, QWAVE, SALGA and NQAPIA for all your hard work.

2014 COMMUNITY CATALYST

AWARDS CELEBRATION P R O G R A M Emcee Kit Yan and Unjung Lim Welcome and Special Recognition of VIPs

By Anu Singh, SALGA Community Catalyst Awardee Andy Marra Presented by Russell Royball, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Cultural Performance by SALGA Dance Troupe

Daniel Dromm New York City Councilmember D istrict Office 37-32 75th St. Jackson Heights, New York 11372 718-803-6373 Legislative Office 250 Broadway, Suite 1821 New York, NY 10007 212-788-7066

Community Catalyst Awardee Namita Chad Presented by Dennis Chin, GAPIMY A Moment in Remembrance

By Ryan Shen and Karen Naimool Community Catalyst Awardee Q-WAVE Presented by Jarrett Lucas, Stonewall Community Foundation Closing Remarks Jason Tseng and Glenn D. Magpantay 5

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NQAPIA

The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPI groups, develop leadership, promote visibility, educate our community, enhance grassroots organizing, expand collaborations, and challenge homophobia and racism.

GAPIMNY

Founded in 1990, the Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) is an all-volunteer, membership-based organization whose goal is to empower gay, bisexual, queer and questioning Asian and Pacific Islander (API) men and transgender folks through a range of social, educational, peer-support, cultural, and political activities.

We work in coalition with other community organizations to help educate the API ethnic and LGBTQ communities on issues of race, sexuality, gender, and health.

Q-WAVE

Q-WAVE is dedicated to strengthening the voices of lesbian/bisexual/queer women and trans/gender variant people of Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Islander descent.

Since 2004, we have been building a supportive, progressive community by promoting visibility and empowerment through social, political, and educational organizing. Our name reflects the fluidity of the identity and individuality of queer ASAPI people, our lives, and our places in society.

SALGA

SALGA NYC serves to promote awareness, tolerance, acceptance, empowerment and safe spaces for sexual minorities and people of all gender identities, who trace their heritage to South Asia or who identify as South Asian.

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COMMUNITY CATALYST AWARD

ANDY MARRA

Andy Marra is an activist, writer, and communications strategist with more than a decade of experience working with LGBT organizations worldwide.

She is the Communications Manager for the Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing LGBT equality, as well as to ensure conservation and respect for the great apes. Prior to the Arcus Foundation, she was the Public Relations Manager for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). Previously, she was Co-Director of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and Senior Media Strategist for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Andy has also served on boards and advisory councils, including Chinese for Affirmative Action, Funding Exchange, Human Rights Campaign, the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Andy’s work and commentary have been found on numerous programs ranging from KBS Radio’s “Touch Base in Seoul, NPR’s “Tell Me More,” The Rachel Maddow Show, and Access Hollywood, as well as dozens of outlets including The Advocate, Asian Week, the Associated Press, Jezebel, KoreAm Journal, Korean Quarterly, The New York Times, Out Magazine, People, Politico, Reuters, Sing Tao Daily News, and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

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Congratulations

Andy Marra!

Andy has been honored by the White House for her contributions to the LGBT movement, profiled in The Advocate’s “Forty Under 40” and the inaugural Trans 100, and listed as one of The Huffington Post’s “Most Compelling LGBT People.” She is also the past recipient of the GLSEN Pathfinder Award, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Award, the Colin Higgins Foundation Courage Award, and was honored by the City of New York for her work in the community.

You can follow Andy on Twitter at @Andy_Marra.

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COMMUNITY CATALYST AWARD

NAMITA CHAD

Congratulations to NQAPIA on your incredible work

Thank you, Namita, for your tireless leadership in our communities!

Congratulations on this much-deserved award!

Namita Chad is a queer South Asian activist from the Middle East with over a decade of activism working with grassroots, LGBTI, immigrant and feminist organizations. At DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving, she organized low-income South Asian immigrants facing heightened levels of detention and deportation after 9/11, an era which re-established racial and religious profiling as acceptable national policy and placed the immigration system under the framework of national security.

As a member of the Immigrant Rights Working Group at the Audre Lorde Project, Namita engaged in base-building and mobilizing for citywide actions against the new draconian immigration legislation that brought undocumented communities out of the shadows in 2006 onwards. She also participated in coalition work to repeal the HIV-immigration ban, raise visibility of LGBTQ immigrants in the broader immigrant rights movement, and connect issues of immigration to war, globalization and first nations sovereignty. For several years, Namita co-coordinated the support group of the South Asian LGBTQ Association (SALGA), also providing immigration support and referrals to community members.

She is currently on the board of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, which works to build grassroots power of poor and working class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City around issues of housing justice, policing and global solidarity. She is also currently a program officer at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, engaging in grantmaking and philanthropic advocacy to raise resources needed to support LGBTQ community organizing and racial justice work, particularly around issues such as immigrant rights and anti-criminalization.

Much love and gratitude from your CAAAV family!

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Best wishes to NQAPIA, GAPIMNY, Q-WAVE and SALGA NYC and congratulations to the 2014 Community Catalyst Award recipients

Andy Marra Q-WAVE Namita Chad

CONGRESSWOMAN GRACE MENG Paid for and authorized by Grace For New York

COMMUNITY CATALYST AWARD

Q-WAVE

Q-WAVE grew out of a series of conversations begun at the Queer Asian Pacific Legacy (QAPL) conference in March 2004, which was a pan-Asian, multi-gender grassroots organizing event held in New York City. Out of this momentous gathering of local, national, and international activists, some basic but difficult questions emerged for us: Why wasn’t there a women’s and trans*-specific local counterpart to GAPIMNY or SALGA, two NYC-based organizations with decades-long histories of queer pan-ethnic community-building? Why had other important and impactful queer ASAPI women’s (whether or not they were trans*-inclusive) groups stopped meeting, and where did the former leaders of those groups take their energies and their skills afterwards? What unique kinds of support do queer ASAPI women and trans* folks want or need, and how can we build this capacity? While we were still mulling over these questions, the community was called together again to protest Details magazine’s racist and homophobic feature, “Gay or Asian?” at the publisher’s midtown Manhattan offices on June 16. Then two days later on June 18, GAPIMNY and the Women’s caucus of the QAPL conference hosted a community-wide, open workshop on “Gender and the API Experience” at the LGBT Center. Then a week later on June 26, a handful of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women and trans* volunteers marched in the 2004 Dyke March for the first time as the core of what would become Q-WAVE. Within months of starting to ask ourselves those initial questions, we’d begun providing our own answers.

In the past 10 years, Q-WAVE has held monthly general meetings dedicated to social, political, and educational organizing at the CUNY Grad Center and other community-based locations; we’ve hosted a cinema club, a food club, a professional networking group, and other targeted interest groups; we’ve presented annual events like our Spring Picnic, Summer BBQ, Holiday Party, Pride events, and a January Town Hall; we’ve had visits from national spokespeople like Helen Zia and sent our support to international groups like the LaLa Alliance; and our current and past leaders have gone on to start other grassroots initiatives like the Asian Pride Project, the Dari Project, Lunar New Year for All, and NQAPIA. Q-WAVE’s name reflects the fluidity of queer ASAPI identities, our life paths, and our places in society, and with your continued help, we’ll be growing, adapting, and surging in new directions for years to come.

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The API Project of PFLAG NYC Congratulates the winners of the 2014 NQAPIA Community Catalyst Awards Andy Marra Q-WAVE Namita Chad and salutes the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance As parents, families, allies, and LGBT people, we are proud to partner with you to increase understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues and the LGBT loved ones in all our families.

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Congratulations to everyone! From the Magpantay Family

We are so proud of our son Glenn. - Mom & Dad!

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In loving memory— Alain Dang 1976–2014

We commemorate Alain for over 15 years of his leadership and service to the Asian American and Pacific Islander and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.

We were privileged to work with him.

We cherish his loving friendship.

—Former members of the Steering Committee, Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)

Chris Chen

Ray Hsia

Adrian Leung

Simon Tam

Jih-Fei Cheng

Raphael Kang

Yan Li

Weiben Wang

Eric Chiu

Stephen Kang

Glenn Magpantay

John Won

Conrad Chu

Alan Khoo

Ryan Natividad

Aaron Yap

Darryl Chu

Danny Morito Katz

Pauline Park

Buckley Yung

Kenichiro Takeuchi

Jerome Zorilla

Gregory Hom

Doug Lee

Congratulations to our friend Andy Marra and all of the honorees on your well-deserved Community Catalyst Awards.

We’re proud to support your work!

Glennda Testone, Executive Director &

gaycenter.org

Congratulations

Andy Marra!

You’re an inspiration!

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Andy, Congratulations on this welldeserved honor!

We are proud of your dynamic leadership in the lgbt community!

Love, Margaret, Jason and Team STAMP

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HRC Congratulates Q-Wave, Andy Marra, and Namita Chad as recipients of the NQAPIA Community Catalyst Awards.

The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. www.hrc.org

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CONGRATS,

ANDY!

We are grateful for your service to the community.

With admiration, your friends at Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.

With much gratitude and congratulations to Andy Marra, Namita Chad, and Qwave for your resilience, grit, and incredible work.

Kit Yan is a New York based performance artist. For more information or booking info please visit www.kityanpoet.com

thanks Andy Marra for her inspiring work to achieve gender, racial, and LGBT equality. glaad.org

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CONGRATS TO ALL THE HONOREES! Thank you to the NQAPIA Sta, Board, and Event Planning Committee for putting on a fabulous event. And to my wonderful friends who support our work.

Phillip Ozaki, NQAPIA Board Member

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We are sending a tremendous amount of gratitude and appreciation for QWave, Andy, and Namita!

Not only have you worked so hard for years, your efforts have enabled hundreds of voices to amplify the call for justice and self-determination.

Thank you for your commitment to make our movements bigger, deeper and more vibrant!

Soniya Munshi and Trishala Deb ! ! !

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NQAPIA Board of Directors Bex Ahuja, Management Center, Brooklyn, NY Janani Balasubramanian, Brooklyn, NY Anj Chaudhry, CAAAV, Brooklyn, NY vanessa coe, San Francisco, CA Vivian Chung, Wharton School of Business/UPenn, Philadelphia, PA Stan Fong, Atlanta, GA Mandy Hu, San Francisco, CA Kevin Lam, Providence, RI Alison Lin, Oakland, CA Michel Lee, Koreans United for Equality, Los Angeles, CA Joy Messinger, Invisible to Invincible (i2i), Chicago, IL Chong Moua, Minneapolis, MN Eri Oura, Honolulu, HI Phillip Ozaki, Lambda Legal, New York, NY Alan Ratliff, Gay-Straight Alliance Network, Oakland, CA Aya Tasaki, Audre Lorde Project, New York, NY Jayden Thai, Louisville, KY Sasha Wijeyeratne, Madison WI monna wong, API Equality - Northern California, San Francisco, CA * Affiliations for identification purposes only.

NQAPIA Staff Glenn D. Magpantay, Co-Director of Development Ben de Guzman, Co-Director of Programs Roberta Sklar, Media Consultant Mia Nakano, Website/ Tech Consultant Julia Yang, Database Consultant NQAPIA Supporters Arcus Foundation Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Queer Justice Fund Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center David Bohnett Foundation Ford Foundation Four Freedoms Fund/ Public Interest Projects Verizon Foundation Walter and Evelyn Haas, Jr. Fund 41

About NQAPIA’s Current Programs ANNUAL TRAINING & ISSUE BRIEFING FOR LEADERS OF LGBT AAPI ORGANIZATIONS This weekend long Summit focuses on networking, learning about current issues, sharing strategies, building local organizational infrastructure, and building national collaborative programs. In 2014, we are doing a series of Regional Summits.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

This conference brings together grassroots LGBT AAPI activists from across the nation. Prior national conferences were in Washington, DC in 2012 (350 attendees) and Seattle in 2009 (250 attendees). New York’s 2004 conference (400 attendees) helped lay the groundwork for NQAPIA’s initial convening. The next national conference will be in Chicago 2015.

The Arcus Foundation congratulates all of the honorees and is especially proud of our teammate Andy Marra

LGBT IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS

We are spearheading an educational and advocacy campaign on immigrants’ rights that includes local community forums and press conferences featuring AAPI immigrants and a national postcard campaign.

MULTILINGUAL VISIBILITY CAMPAIGN

NQAPIA aims to improve the visibility of LGBTs in the mainstream AAPI community and of AAPIs in the broader LGBT community. This multilingual education campaign includes outreach to the Asian ethnic media and educational pieces translated into several Asian languages.

CAPACITY BUILDING RESOURCES, WORKSHOPS, AND TRAININGS

This includes a descriptive directory of all of the nation’s LGBT AAPI groups, sharing best practices and model documents, fiscal sponsorship, and special trainings/workshops.

PARTICIPATION IN CURRENT ISSUES

NQAPIA raises the LGBT AAPI voice in current issues and we promote LGBT AAPI engagement. NQAPIA is a member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, the coalition of national AAPI advocacy organizations and brings a racial justice lens to the LGBT policy agenda.

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The Arcus Foundation is a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. Specifically, Arcus works to advance LGBT equality, as well as to conserve and protect the great apes