Freelance Writers Wanted at SFGAM.com - Gay Men Online Community Website (rate: $20 per article)

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SFGAM.com is an online community website for gay Asian males (GAM). We are looking for contributors who want to express their experiences, thoughts and interests via our blog.. We want to become a respectable voice for the GAM community and show the world who we are, how we think and what we represent. Although our website is based in San Francisco, we currently feature blogs by writers from all over the world.

Please visit our website at http://www.sfgam.com for more details. If interested, please send an email to the above address.

Compensation: 20.00 USD per article (via Paypal only)

Telecommuting is ok.

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Call for Proposals: LGBT Human Rights Defender (HRD) Emergency Response Initiative

Deadline: 30 September 2010

The LGBT Human Rights Defender Emergency Response Initiative is seeking proposals from LGBT organizations based in Asia for the implementation of an LGBT Human Rights Defender (HRD) security and protections program. The organization will be responsible for providing both preemptive and reactive emergency support to LGBT HRDs who are facing/have faced a threat. Deadline for proposals. September 30, 2010.

Responsibilities include:

Preemptive/Post-threat (outside times of crisis)

1. Establish contact with LGBT HRDs across Asia;
2. Identify and reach out to key resource individuals/organizations across Asia that can be called upon the event of a threat (i.e., LGBT-friendly lawyers, medical professionals, relevant diplomatic contacts, etc.);
3. Remotely build capacity of LGBT organizations around Asia to conduct security assessments and craft security plans;
4. Collect and archive security planning resources of use to LGBT HRDs
5. Document all cases of LGBT HRD emergencies
6. Analyze documented emergency cases to identify trends and best-practices to responding to threats against LGBT HRDs

Reactive

1. Serve as regional hub for receiving LGBT HRD emergencies
2. Process and vet all emergency funding applications
3. Coordinate all approved logistical support for LGBT HRDs facing a threat

Interested organizations should submit the following to LGBT.HRD@gmail.com:

1. An organizational capacity statement (1/2 page)
2. A list of current programs with a brief description of each (3 sentences each)
3. Current organizational budget
4. List of donor organizations
5. Geographic scope (in what Asian countries do you operate)

Applications, in English, will only be accepted from organizations based in Asia (this can include Central and/or Southeast Asia). Applications should be no more than two pages (in total).

This program will provide funding for one full-time staff member to implement the program over two years.

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Call for Submissions: Queer Asian Pacific-Islander American's "Coming Out" Stories!

Deadline: open

Hi, My name is Miyuki Baker and I'm the founder of a new website called Asian, Gay and Proud .

The website is a safe space for Asian Pacific-Islander American members of the LGBTQ (and questioning) community to find queer APIA coming out stories, links and other resources. The whole website is an attempt to fill the lack of queer APIA media and to help queer APIA folk to come out and be more visible.

We're currently lacking in the coming out stories department and any contributions there would be greatly appreciated. They can be anonymous or not. In addition, they can be about any type of coming out story--in other words, it doesn't have to be about when you came out to your parents. How about when you realized yourself you were queer? Or when you told your penpal? We want to hear about it!

The newest feature on the site is called Out and Successful, which highlights queer Asian people who are strong, inspiring, creative and proud to be
queer. There's a new interview up every Wednesday--here's an example:Kathy E.

The Out and Successful feature has been really rewarding and I'm hoping that it continues to expand with people from all types of backgrounds. I would absolutely LOVE it if you could be a part of Out and Successful! Please consider doing it no matter what your background is--this is about diversity! Success is being out and proud, so if you're out and you want to tell the world, answer the following five questions, send me a brief bio and photo of yourself:

1. Who? name, age, what you identify as (or not)

2. What? what do you do for a living or things you would like to do

3. When did you come out? Any stories?

4. How did coming out impact your career or relationships with others?

5. Advice you can give to other Asian, Gay & Proud readers.

If you think that these questions are too limiting, I've also conducted three personal interviews via Skype and gchat so please keep in mind that there are other options available. If you're interested in being a part of Out and Successful, please send me an email with your questions and answers at ebaker1@swarthmore.edu.

I hope you can contribute as I feel there simply aren't enough resources for queer Asian Americans. We need more queer Asian role models out there!

I look forward to hearing from you!

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Writing for The New Gay

We are accepting short (no more than 1-2 pages, please) essays/stories/commentaries from members of our community. We are not editors or philosophers and we realize most of you are not professional writers, but we do have some standards. Please do not send us your first draft. We don’t mind making small edits, but please submit posts that are grammatically correct, cogent, and well written. We love you all, but for the sake of the readership we must practice quality control.

* The TNG staff doesn’t agree with each other on everything, and we don’t need to agree with you in order for you to post here. Also, controversial topics are fine as long as you have a thick skin. Those who choose to comment on TNG tend to be less mean and more thoughtful than commenters on many other blogs I’ve seen, but sometimes comments can be sharp, so take criticism with an open mind and a grain of salt. This is a good forum for us to learn from one another.
* Don’t send us overly negative posts. Most readers will assume a snarky or bitchy tone anyway, even when none is intended, so write carefully. If you have a critical opinion, back it up with supporting arguments and/or well-written prose. Humor works well also.
* We also ask that you don’t defend yourselves via comments. You should reread your submission and make sure that it stands on its own, as we will frown on you trying to save face in the comments section after you stir up a shitstorm.
* Send us entertaining tales of hook-ups and heartbreaks, analysis of trends and ideas, poetry and haiku, saucy fiction, postulations on queer identity, criticisms and celebrations of culture, photographs, or anything else you can think of. The topic doesn’t need to be specifically gay, just well written and interesting to a “new gay” audience, which is curious, intelligent, reflective, and opinionated.
* We don’t want to read about celebrity culture and gossip. Frankly, we find you much more interesting. There are a ton of gay blogs that do the gossip thing better than we can. Also, we don’t want to hear about the latest gay-centric news of the moment. You can read about this stuff on Queerty or Towleroad. They do a good job of it. However, we DO encourage you to submit commentary on individual news items, should you feel compelled.
* Follow up! We can’t tell you how many people express an interest in writing for us and then disappear. Don’t second guess yourself: if you have something to say, say it. We’ll publish for you, but only if you send it to us.
* Finally, the most important thing to remember is that this blog is written for other people. Whereas many blogs are concerned with what their author had for breakfast or why they’re really tired today, everything written for TNG is for an audience. Always think “so what” when writing a post. You can attempt to answer a question, tell a story or lodge a complaint, but only if you’re not just doing it for yourself.

Maybe there is a particular local beat you want to cover that TNG doesn’t currently provide? Let us know.

We are particularly interested in hearing minority (African-American, Hispanic, Asian, etc.) and transgender voices.

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Intersections, Asia Pacific, lesbian

Intersections, Asia Pacific, lesbian
Category: Academic Journal
Founder/Editor: Carolyn Brewer
E-mail Address: carolyn.brewer@anu.edu.au

Description:
The Intersections electronic journal was originally published by Anne Marie Medcalf and Carolyn Brewer from a site at Murdoch University in Western Australia. At that time it was conceived of as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asian region. Between September 1998 and mid 2007, fifteen issues were published under the sub-title, Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. In 2006, Anne-Marie resigned to focus her time on different interests. In 2007, Carolyn Brewer moved to the Gender Relations Centre in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University and the journal was also relocated to a new website at the ANU. At the same time, a new International Editorial Board was appointed along with an ANU Board of Management. It was decided to change the sub-title to more clearly reflect the journal's content and to add the Pacific as a specific area of research. The journal is now titled: Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.

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Call for Submissions: Men of Color Gay Anthology

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Queer and Asian/Pacific Islander Seeks Participants for Arts Leadership Program

If you write, paint, make films, take photos, spit poetry, teach, or want to just try—API Equality is seeking participants for a new arts leadership and advocacy program.

Do you identify as QUEER & ASIAN/ PACIFIC ISLANDER?

Are you an artist? Activist? Artivist? Would you like to be? If you write, paint, make films, take photos, spit poetry, teach, or want to just try—API Equality is seeking participants for a new arts leadership and advocacy program.

Project Q is a new and developing community arts project that seeks to foster the creative and political development of Asian Pacific Islander Queer community members and to share the queer API experience through creative story-telling, visual art, dancing, theater performance, and more.

Over the course of 10 weeks, participants will:
- participate in a series of creative and political education workshops
- develop and participate in a multimedia showcase of visual, literary, and performance art
- help plan to extend the project to take to schools, community organizations, events, etc.

*REQUIREMENTS*
Participants must be able to attend the weekly workshops on Sunday afternoons from July 11 - Sept 12, with a showcase concluding the program on September 18.

Participants must self-identify as Asian-Pacific Islander and LGBTQ—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer .

*APPLICATION* Please email apiequality@caasf.org with the answers to the following questions:

Name, first, last:
Email:
Phone:
Age:
Ethnicity:
Sexual Identity:

Please answer these questions in 200 words each or less:

1. Why do you want to be a part of Project Q?
2. What background or experiences can you bring to this project?
3. What do you hope to gain from participating in Project Q?

*ABOUT APIEQUALITY*
API Equality is committed to working in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community in California and nationally for equal marriage rights, fair treatment, and overall acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Working in collaboration with our local partners, API Equality-LA and API Equality-SF, we engage in public education, community organizing, and legal and legislative advocacy to achieve our goals.

For more information on API Equality, please visit http://apiequality.org/

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Call for Films: Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival 2010 - Orissa

Greetings from Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India (SAATHII) and Sampark! Please find below the call for films for Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival 2010 in Orissa. Earlier the film festival was scheduled to be organised on July 2010 but due to some unavoidable situation it was postponed. Now it has been rescheduled on mid August 2010.

Note: Those who have already submitted their films as per the previous announcement in the month of June 2010, please ignore this announcement.

Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival 2010
Call for Films
For the Sixth Edition of Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival in Orissa
from August 13-21, 2010
Entry Closes on: August 3, 2010

Greetings from SAATHII on behalf of Sampark, a civil society advocacy forum for advancing the health and rights of sexual minorities and people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Orissa.

It’s our immense pleasure to announce that SAATHII and Sampark are going to organize “Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival 2010” in Orissa from August 13-21, 2010. This will be the sixth edition of the film festival, and third in Orissa.

Interact Worldwide, London and DFID-Civil Society Challenge Fund, Glasgow are providing us technical and funding support respectively for this initiative through a project titled “Building the Capacity of People Living with HIV and Sexual Minorities in Orissa and West Bengal to Advance their Health and Rights”.

About Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival

Siddhartha Gautam was a lawyer and human rights activist and worked on a variety of issues related to discrimination against vulnerable groups of people inIndia. He was one of the first persons in India to talk about sexuality and HIV/AIDS as human rights issues, and started AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan, the first Indian AIDS activist group, in New Delhi in 1989-90.

This is an effort to continue Siddhartha’s engagement with human rights issues, and through it, pay tribute to his vision and spirit. The event is a humble contribution to remember and take forward the pioneering work done by Siddhartha Gautam to promote and protect the rights of sexual minorities and people living with HIV. In particular, the film festival tries to support and encourage Indian filmmakers.

For the first time, SAATHII and its partner organizations organized the festival in Kolkata in 2003. In 2007, the festival crossed the borders into Bhadrak district in Orissa, the first ever venue for the festival outside West Bengal. Bhadrak was also where SAATHII started mobile film shows, adding another innovation to the Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival agenda.

About SAATHII and Sampark: SAATHII is a registered non-profit organization that strengthens HIV prevention, care, support, treatment and associated gender, sexuality, human rights and sexual and reproductive health initiatives in India. Sampark is a civil society coalition for advocacy and capacity building of sexual minorities and PLHIV in Orissa to advance their health and rights. Sampark was formed in March 2009 as part of an initiative of SAATHII, undertaken in technical partnership with Interact Worldwide, London and with funding support from Department for International Development – Civil Society Challenge Fund, Glasgow.

About Siddhartha Gautam Film Festival 2010

Like 2009, SGFF 2010 would be organized through hall based screenings and mobile film shows. Hall based screenings would be held on August 13-14, 2010 inBhubaneswar and mobile film shows would be conducted from August 16-21, 2010 in some of the selected districts of Orissa.

Festival theme: This year the festival aims to highlight and support legal efforts to protect the rights of people living with HIV and decriminalize same-sex love inIndia. The films will be seen by a diverse audience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexed, Kothi, Hijra and other queer people; people infected or affected by HIV; social workers; health care providers; government officials; college and university students; and media persons. Families and friends of queer people and people living with HIV will be especially welcome.

A Brief on SAATHII Rainbow Film Award 2010

We are happy to announce the SAATHII Rainbow Film Award 2010, the first award of its kind in India that honours Indian films portraying sexual minorities, issues that concern them and actors in the roles of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender characters. The main aim of the awards is to make the “voices of sexual minorities” heard by filmmakers and convey the message that sexual minorities have an opinion on the films that portray them. These opinions should be taken seriously by the filmmakers and other artists involved in the making of films, so that the portrayal of sexual minorities becomes more sensitive and mature. This year the awards would be decided by a five-member jury of community leaders representing the “rainbow diversity” among sexual minority communities. At the end of SGFF 2010, the jury will declare the award winning film(s).

Call for entries

Filmmakers interested in participating are requested send their films in the following format, along with the mentioned documents

a) Format: DVD formats (compatible with Indian systems)

b) Documents : Screening permission letter, synopsis (which should include – film title, genre, production / release year, duration, director’s name, and full contact information - e-mail address, landline / mobile number, complete postal address)

c) Still Images: Also please don’t forget to submit one or two digital photographs of the film

d) Length of Videos and Subtitles: Festival films (shorts, documentaries, docu-features and feature films, music video) of any length suitable to the festival themes will be welcome. But all films must be subtitled in English.

We especially encourage films produced in India and those that focus on the Indian, Indian Diaspora and South Asian contexts.

We will also be approaching a number of filmmakers whose productions are already available in SAATHII’s reference libraries in Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.

Please note that there is no entry fee for participation. All films will be subject to a selection process by the festival jury. SAATHII will be happy to include the films submitted in its reference libraries which together constitute one of the largest resources in eastern India for material on health and human rights.

The selected films along with the festival programming and schedules will be announced on the SAATHII website in the coming days. Please also look out for further announcements.

Deadline for submission: August 3, 2010

All queries related to film submission, selection or any other issue should be addressed to saathiihelpline@rediffmail.com with a subject line “SGFF 2010 – Orissa”

Submission Address: All copies of the films should be sent to the following address (Please write “SGFF 2010 – Orissa” on the cover of your submission)

SAATHII, Bhubaneswar Office
N3/301, IRC Village, Nayapalli
Bhubaneswar – 751 015
Orissa, India
Phone: 91 674 255 2845
e-mail: saathiihelpline@rediffmail.com

For further queries, please contact members of SGFF 2010 organizing committee:

1) Biswa Bhusan Pattanayak
2) K. Santosh Kumar
3) Mitali Mohanty
4) Pawan Dhall

On behalf of Sampark coalition

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Asian-American Male Actors Needed for Staged Reading- Massachusetts

A staged reading of Chay Yew's A Language of Their Own, a powerful play about love and communication, set in the Asian-American gay community.

Performed as part of Bare Bones: Staged Readings at Theatre@First on August 26, 2010. Rehearsals once a week between auditions and performance. See website for more information.

Location: Massachusetts, United States

Payment details: no pay

Applications to this casting call require:

* A phone number

Ming

Young, twenty-something American-born Asian man. Slightly selfish, irrational at times, an emotional rollercoaster.
Males, aged 18 to 30 from Massachusetts, USA
Ethnicity: Asian
Languages spoken: English

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