LGBTQ

The month of June is Pride Month. Pride Month is simultaneously one of my favorite and least favorite times of the year. I love seeing my LGBTQ+ friends have a time where there’s a spotlight on them with more representation and visibility. It’s a time to feel celebrated in a…

A regular complaint of corporations each June is that, for all the time and attention paid to queer issues, the real objective is pinkwashing, wielded both as a way to burnish brands’ reputations and to sell more stuff. Indeed, despite all the controversy this year, San Francisco’s Pride parade this…

Having an absentee father is no cakewalk. Learning that your absentee father died and left a journal confessing to being a Nazi with close ties to Hitler is shocking. Being the gay son of a potential Nazi who aided a regime that persecuted gay men is devastating. This was the…

AAJA members explore how their queerness informs their work — By Hayden Park, AAJA Programs and Communications Intern As Pride Month concludes, AAJA Defined is featuring some of our rising members who focus on LGBTQ+ topics in their reporting. We talked to them about their intersecting AAPI and queer identities and how they influence, inspire and impact their work.

“Progress leads to chaos if not anchored in tradition. Tradition becomes rigid, if it does not prepare the way for progress. But a perverted traditionalism; And a misguided progressivism, lead each other to a deadly excess, hardly leaving any ground between them.” — Bernhard Philberth I recently submitted this reflection…