Monthly Archives: June 2015

#missacas Announcing the first Miss ACAS PRIDE 2015 PAGEANT! Tickets $25 for advance purchase at ACAS office or $30 at the door or through Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/miss-acas-pride-2015-pageant-qay-fundraiser-tickets-17250382358 A night full of fun! - High energy performances - Hors d'ouevres and drinks - Silent auction - The 1st Miss ACAS pageant Come join us and have a blast! When: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 Reception begins at 6 pm Program begins at 7:30 pm and concludes at 9:30 pm Location: 100 McCaul Street, Sharpe Centre for Design, OCAD University Auditorium (1st floor, Rm 190) Toronto, ON M5T 1W1 *Venue is wheelchair accessible. **This is a licensed event and alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase on site. All proceeds of this event will help fund the ACAS Queer Asian Youth (QAY) Program, which recently received a funding cut. With ticket purchase, you are eligible for a $20 tax receipt. To request a tax receipt, contact events@acas.org. For all other inquiries, please contact events@acas.org or 416-963-4300. We hope to see you there! This event is generously co-sponsored by: OCAD University, Office of Diversity, Equality, and Sustainability Initiatives (ODESI) Dr. Robert Diaz, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences KAPATID Toronto _______________________________________________ Visit: www.acas.org ACAS (Asian Community AIDS Services) provides HIV/AIDS education, prevention, and support services to the East and Southeast Asian Canadian communities. Our programs are based on a pro-active and holistic approach to HIV/AIDS and are provided in a collaborative, empowering, and non-discriminatory manner. Follow us! www.twitter.com/ACAStoronto Like us! www.facebook.com/AsianCommunityAIDSServices

This June, Anda Li, Toronto Public Health Sexual Health Educator and long-time ACAS supporter and volunteer, has shared with us why training sex positive peer parent leaders is important to the community. Through her work providing the Raising Sexually Healthy Children (RSHC) Program with ACAS and for organizing training for parents and caregivers from 13 ethno-linguistic communities, Anda was honoured as one of the Ward 27 City Builders of 2014.

May is Asian Heritage Month, and ACAS had an amazingly busy and impactful month celebrating the Asian heritage within our wonderfully diverse community!   Did you wear pink at #PinkDotTO 2015 to support the freedom to love? To much success, ACAS, in collaboration with the Canadian Chinese National Council (Toronto Chapter), held the second annual #PinkDotTO Chinatown LGBTQ + Allies Pride March on Saturday, May 16, 2015 one day ahead of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT). Close to 100 marchers all dressed in Pink supported LGBTQ rights within the Asian and broader community. The theme of this year’s #PinkDotTO is “Supporting the Freedom to Love!”, and we would like to thank our honorary guests Councilor Kristyn Wong-Tam, long-time ACAS supporter Olivia Chow, as well as all the mainstream and ethnic media partners OMNI Mandarin, CP24, CTV, CityTV, Singtao Daily, MingPao News, and Dushi.ca for the coverage of the event. For all the event photos and news archives of the event, please visit the ACAS Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/AsianCommunityAIDSServices   OMNI Mandarin’s special interview highlighting LGBTQ awareness in the Asian Community! Aside from covering our ‪#‎PinkDotTO 2015 event where you would see a brief interview with our Queer Asian Youth Resource Development Lead Chuck Li, we would like to thank OMNI TV  for dedicating a news segment on the work of ACAS and LGBTQ issues during the OMNI Mandarin newscast on May 20, 2015. Watch the interview by news anchor Lee Wei and our very own ACAS Women Support Worker Jenny Cheng http://www.omnitv.ca/on/cmn/videos/4249957185001/!   ACAS presents community-based research study findings for Asian migrant farmworkers and Asian gay/bi men at CAHR2015 ACAS, with a strong record of conducting community-based research that impact the community, presented two research study posters at the 2015 Canadian Association for HIV/AIDS Research 2015 which took place at the Toronto Metro Convention [...]