ACAS Annual General Meeting

On behalf of Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS), it is my pleasure to invite you to our 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday, November 21 from 2:00 – 3:30p.m. The highlight of our AGM is the ACAS award ceremonies for Aries Cheung for the Community Builder Award and Paul Fernandez who received (posthumous) the Patrick Truong Award. Please fill out an online registration form at https://forms.gle/CzCdJj3cWzViCwoW9. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we will be holding our AGM this year via video-conference. We will send the program and meeting link to registered attendees closer to the day of the event. If you are interested in becoming a Board Member of ACAS, please contact me at boardchair@acas.org, or Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp, ACAS Executive Director, at ed@acas.org by Friday, November 13, 2020. I thank you for your continuous support of ACAS and look forward to seeing you at our AGM. Supporting our community, caring for our future, Fiona Lee Chair, Board of Directors Board Recruitment Info:

Rainbow GPS Project

Register at https://forms.gle/3cekSdxxFwZy1tY59 Rainbow GPS Project is an orientation project for East/Southeast Asian LGBTQ Newcomers and International Students who are transitioning to live in Toronto and in Canada. Through weekly drop-in sessions, the Rainbow GPS project will be a learning space for people to explore themes around sexuality, gender identity, coming out, consent, dating and relationships, and body image. The objectives are to LEARN different concepts and themes, APPLY key learning outcomes, and SHARE personal or lived experiences. Through these objectives (learning, applying, and sharing), the Rainbow GPS Project aims to explore various LGBTQ+ identities that are specific to East Asian and Southeast Asian cultures and how those LGBTQ+ identities are being translated to Western society. The Rainbow GPS Project is open to East and Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ International Students and Newcomers. The Rainbow GPS Project focuses on LGBTQ+ resources in the Greater Toronto Area, but people can register from across Canada and can participate in the workshops.* The program will have a total of four (4) workshops on TUESDAYS starting November 17, 2020. All workshops are held through Zoom. The 4 sessions are: November 24, 6pm EST: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) 101 December 1, 6pm EST: Coming Out (to Myself) December 8, 6pm EST: Sup? Looking?: Navigating queer dating in an online world December 15, 6pm EST: I am My Body: Consent, body image, and desire Contact Bryan Quinones (acasrainbowgps@gmail.com) for more information. *(Due to the unprecedented events that was caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the sessions will be happening online via zoom. This allows the program to be available for other LGBTQ+ newcomers and international students who may not be physically living in Toronto.) The Rainbow GPS Project is funded by Community ONE Foundation