API Equality-LA Wins City of Los Angeles Pride Award
Photo, L-R: API Equality-LA members Tim Ky, Mike Bonin from Councilmember Rosendahl’s office, Deanna Kitamura, Doreena Wong, Ellen Kameya, and Harold Kameya.
Los Angeles – Each year, at the end of the month of June, Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl holds a special Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) pride celebration during a meeting of the Los Angeles City Council. As part of that celebration, the councilmember issues a handful of LGBT Pride Month awards, celebrating leaders and role models in the community. The theme of the awards this year is Faces of the New LGBT Movement.
People who have emerged as fresh faces of leadership in the LGBT community in the wake of the passage of Proposition 8 are being honored. API Equality-LA is being recognized for its organizing work in the Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. In particular, API Equality-LA was nominated to recognize its work with API Christian and other faith communities, its efforts to ensure that API ethnic media provides balanced coverage on the marriage equality issue, and its work to build a strong coalition between APIs and other communities of color. This is the second award that API Equality-LA has recently received, following on the May 2009 award for its work that was bestowed by the Pride and Heritage Committee in Washington, D.C.
“We are thrilled that Councilmember Rosendahl should honor us in this way,” said API-Equality Co-Chair Doreena Wong. “We truly appreciate the recognition of our past efforts and the encouragement this provides for our continuing work to win back marriage equality.”
API Equality-LA is a coalition of organizations and individuals working to build support for equal marriage rights and fair treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the greater Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander community. For more information, call 323-860-7348.