PFLAG National partner NQAPIA (The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance), a federation of LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander organizations, has developed a series of multilingual public service announcements (PSAs) will be released throughout Pride month on local Asian Public Television channels in numerous cities across the country.
On May 22, the video geared to the Japanese community was released. That video features PFLAG mom and National board member Marsha Aizumi and her husband, Tad, talking about their love for their son Aiden, who is transgender. Two other videos also feature PFLAG parents: Clara Yoon, a Korean mother of a trans son, and Carol Mannion, a Filipina mother of a gay son.
An accompanying one-page, double-sided leaflet entitled, “Family Is Still Family, Love Is Still Love” addresses fundamental questions about sexual orientation and identity. The leaflet dispels common misconceptions and is available in 19 Asian languages and scripts--the greatest number of translations of a single LGBT document. NQAPIA collaborated with the Asian Pride Project--an organization that aspires to foster greater visibility, pride, acceptance, unity, and harmony for all LGBT Asians & Pacific Islander (API) people--and parents to produce culturally appropriate materials in response to an absence of role models and resources for Asian communities.
NQAPIA is hopeful that the videos and written materials will be helpful resources for young people (and really anyone) who aims to come out to their parents.
We are so happy to help our friends at NQAPIA get the word out about this important series, which will be so helpful to so many people. We encourage PFLAG chapters to have these materials on hand should you have parents in your community who need them. Click here to download these resources now!
