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• HOME GAY ASIANS OF TORONTO
• GAY ASIANS OF TORONTO WERE PNEERS OF DIVERSY PRI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• FILE 38 - GAY ASIANS TORONTO
• 12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS
• GAY TORONTO
• TORONTO GAY CISE CLUBS

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In many Canadian ci, “gay liberatn” anizatns were found the early 1970s, beg the nex for polil, social and cultural activi — and as the LGBT muni expand and evolved, those uned groups gave way to expand works of groups servg more specialized needs. The Canadian Lbian and Gay Archiv matas vertil fil of historil documents om many muny groups om Toronto and natnwi, and even some om other untri.

GAY ASIANS OF TORONTO WERE PNEERS OF DIVERSY PRI

Here, we will briefly highlight Gay Asians of Toronto, a group which had an important role tablishg a place the muny for LGBT people of lour whose unique issu and perspectiv were too often margalized. Gay Asians of Toronto was an anizatn enuragg polil advocy and social support for gay Asian dividuals livg Toronto. Formed 1980, the anizatn strived to provi a nurturg environment where gay Asians uld fd support through shared personal experienc and exchange of rmatn.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

The group had s genis after artist Richard Fung attend the 1979 Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights, spirg him to lnch an anizatn that would create a sense of clivy and belongg for the Asian Canadians Toronto. When Fung got back om the nference, he ntacted Gerald Chan, an activist who had published “Out of the Shadows”, an article on beg gay and Che, the Toronto-based magaze Asianadian. As an anizatn, GAT aimed to promote uny and mutual support among gay Asians by anizg social, cultural and tnal activi for their members.

GAT’s ma polil goal was to create a llective gay Asian muny as a source of empowerment. In 1982, Gay Asians of Toronto were chosen to lead Toronto’s Pri para. As gays, we have to fight for our rights the straight society, but Asian gays, like black gays, Jewish gays, sexual mori, and the handipped among and every other mory wh the mory have other battl to face as well.

” In 1983, Gay Asians of Toronto lnched the quarterly magaze Celebrasian. The magaze ually nsisted of lol and ternatnal muny news, personal stori, poems, terviews of Asian-Canadians and ads seekg for 1985, Gay Asians of Toronto hosted the Seventh Internatnal Gay Associatn Conference, wh the theme of “Smashg Borrs and Openg Spac: General Opprsn of Gay and Lbian People”. Most of the discsn revolved around polil anizatn, and nontg cultural inty and the racial polics of the gay muny.

FILE 38 - GAY ASIANS TORONTO

In 1986, Fung produced the vio Orientatns, a documentary film which 14 gay and lbian Asians tellg their personal stori about g out and fdg their place the muny. In 1990, Gay Asians of Toronto tablished an AIDS service anizatn to al wh the unique needs of LGBT Asians. The group provid support and tn around AIDS, and addrsed the homophobia gay Asians may experience.

Secret Life of CanadaAs Pri celebratns kick off, The Secret Life of Canada shouts out the Gay Asians of Toronto (GAT). (Insi Out)The Secret Life of Canada4:29S2: Shout out to Gay Asians of TorontoNot every person worth rememberg ma to the history books. Formed 1980, Gay Asians of Toronto (GAT) would be the first anizatn Canada to advote for LGBT people of lour.

One of the anizatns foundg members, wrer and filmmaker Richard Fung, would go on to give voice to gay Asian people his 1984 documentary are five thgs we learned about Gay Asians of Toronto and Richard Fung.

12 OF THE HOTTT GAY BARS TORONTO FOR STEAMY NIGHTS

1) GAT was spired by a massive rally WashgtonWhen an artist by the name of Richard Fung went to the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1979, he was spired by the muny of LGBT people that had gathered there. Some of those activists were pictured on the ver of a 1980 issue of the Gay Insurgent journal.

They held a large banner that proclaimed: "We're Asian, Gay & Proud.

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2) The group was a safe space for layered intyFung, who once wrote that he felt like "a fortune okie a tray of chee Danish, " noted that non-whe members of the LGBT muny face a double-edged sword: "the racism of the general society as filtered to the gay muny and the sometim-vic sexism and homophobia of our own 'ethnic' muni. In what they lled Operatn Soap, the police raid gay bathho and arrted over three hundred people.

PhotosHow Toronto journalist Gerald Hannon ptured the 'fiercer days' of Canada's gay rights movementAlthough seldom the foc, the Asian muny was prent those early years.

TORONTO GAY CISE CLUBS

In 1982, Gay Asians of Toronto were chosen to lead the fledglg wasn't easy, as at that time the para was close to Chatown and they were looked down upon by many the larger Asian muny, but they persevered so they uld reprent and give voice to their experience. 5) Richard Fung documented the early LGBT Asian munyIn 1984, Richard Fung shot a groundbreakg documentary lled Orientatns: Lbian and Gay film featured terviews wh 14 queer Asian people and looked at their experienc wh g out and rascism they experienced the wir queer muny.