Monthly Archives: June 2019

PRIDE Thank yous!

After a successful Pride Parade, we wanted to show some extra love for all the hard work that paid off with a beautiful ACAS float!!! A lot of time and work can go unnoticed, but this float would have not been possible without the many many volunteers involved! 😍 It was all the help from volunteers that made this float feel like a fun party 🥳 HUGE THANK YOUs to: The many and most devoted hours, evenings, and weekends spent for designing, planning, woodworking, and technical building of the railing structure. THANK YOU to Thompson, Koji, Ben, Agnes for all that hard handywork <3 We had several volunteers come in everyday to give over 300 pink paper lanterns some extra love with a personal touch!! It really showed the love and support our LGBTQ Asian community has for each other. Each lantern was like a personal love letter to the community. 🏮 And then there were those who helped on the day of the parade starting from 6:30am to build the railing or those that came to help setup onwards. Everyone had a part that made set up AND take down go quickly and smoothly. It wouldn't have been easy to do without everyone's help! Thank you to such generous people who also bought iced coffees and food to share for everyone on the float. So thoughtful! We were probably the best fed float! 🥪🍲🍕 Thank you Jess for taking the whole day to help out wherever you could, including set up/take down, preparing the music, managing the sound equipment, and running on-board logistics throughout the day. Special thank you to drivers (Mr. Tran, Koji, Kyle, and David) for driving back and forth across the city to pick up and return heavy sound system equipment, an electric generator, and wood. [...]

新時代電視 Fairchild Television interviews ACAS for Pride Toronto

Thank you 新時代電視 Fairchild Television and News Anchor Ritch Lau for coming out to the 2019 Pride Toronto Parade on Sunday to interview with us! You will see our very own Men’s Outreach Worker Alex Ma as well as ACAS volunteer/Korean LGBTQ activist Joon Yeejon Joung amongst others in this news clip!   https://www.fairchildtv.com/news.php?n=b939c12448b26427bf0db4aaacd97e4a&fbclid=IwAR1pbs8_V6ZfRqIuwWqhoN45rG4UGui6QH2e3-lP70M3lAHJHYjQ7DolftE

ACAS getting PRIDE PREPARED!

Thanks to the lovely volunteers who dropped in last night to decorate the paper lanterns for our 25th anniversary float! Letting out some creative flow has been surprisingly fun and stress-relieving 🥰 Who's coming today? Drop in today or Friday between 10:30am - 8:00pm or Thursday 10:30am - 6:00pm   Today some of the cutsleeve band members came to give their time and creative style for our paper lanterns! Cutsleeve is a queer East Asian female rock band 😍🎶🎸Check out their Facebook page for more of their music! The best way to enjoy the Pride Parade is to BE IN IT!! March with ACAS this Sunday for the biggest LGBTQ+ Asian group in Toronto! We'll have a float with music to dance along to. To march with us: Meet us at 1:00pm near Bloor St and Church St. Look for our group number B7 and a tall pole with the ACAS logo. To be on the float: we ask that you help out with the decorations during the week, or set up on the morning of! Email Ryan at men@acas.org to arrange. Priority for Asian queer folks, trans women, trans men, nonbinary folks, living with HIV, or with a disability.

Justin featured in the Much Studios documentary: Positive.

Justin recently completed his internship at ACAS in the Spring and is featured in the Much Studios documentary: Positive. Justin also just performed beautifully at last night's AIDS Candlelight Vigil 2019: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. We are SO PROUD of you for all you've done at ACAS and already making more contributions for the community since you've graduated! Positive will air on Saturday, June 22 at 8:30 p.m. ET on MTV https://www.much.com/much-studios-positive-hiv-documentary/

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