You may remember that Equality California had scored state senators and assemblymembers on their support for LGBT rights. See original blog post here. All of the Asian American politicians scored 100 percent—an A plus! All of them except for Senator Leland Yee, who scored a 92 percent. We assigned him the dubious grade of A-minus. Well, like any good Asian American, he petitioned for a higher grade. Senator Yee’s office called us and said he supported the bill but couldn’t vote for it because he was called away. He was “fighting for votes for another civil rights issue.” Fair enough, so we’d like to upgrade him from an A minus to a solid A. Kudos!

Source: API Equaliy LAYou may remember that Equality California had graded state senators and assemblymembers on their support for LGBT rights. See original blog post here. All of the Asian American politicians scored 100 percent—an A plus! All of them except for Senator Leland Yee, who scored a 92 percent. We assigned him the dubious grade of A-minus. Well, like any good Asian American, he petitioned for a higher grade. Senator Yee’s office called us and said he WOULD have voted for the bill, but was called away “fighting for votes for another civil rights issue.” Fair enough, so we’d like to upgrade him from an A minus to a solid A.

A majority of API Equality-LA’s work is done through each of our all-volunteer committees. API Equality-LA wouldn’t be the leading API LGBT organization that it is today without the contributions of all of our volunteer activists. Most of that work happens without any reward. To recognize stellar volunteer activists, the media & website committee selects a monthly Activist of the Month. We feature them on our website by asking them to answer a few questions, some serious and some fun. Get to know some of the incredible people that devote their time and effort to advancing API Equality-LA’s mission.

We’re proud to present Eyre Kungwankrai as our December 2011 Activist of the Month!