GAPIMNY Records
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Abstract
GAPIMNY, formerly known as the Gay and Pacific Islander Men of New York, is a volunteer-run community organization that provides social, educational, and cultural programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, same-gender loving, gender non-conforming, queer, and questioning people who are Asian Pacific Islander in the greater New York City area. In collaboration with other community organizations, GAPIMNY works to provide peer-support, educational resources, and programming on issues such as race, sexuality, gender, public health, and immigration law. Materials include pamphlets, flyers, leaflets, brochures, stickers, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, meeting memoranda, and some artifacts that were used in parades or demonstrations. The collection also includes magazines, literary journals, and materials produced by related organizations. This collection documents individual activists and community organizations providing support and resources for its membership, and addressing concerns of visibility, representation, and marginalization.
Historical Note
GAPIMNY is a volunteer-run community organization that provides social, educational, and cultural programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, same-gender loving, gender non-conforming, queer, and questioning people who are Asians Pacific Islander in the greater New York City area. In collaboration with other community organizations, GAPIMNY works to provide peer-support, educational resources, and programming on issues such as race, sexuality, gender, public health, and immigration law. GAPIMNY was founded as the Gay and Pacific Islander Men of New York was founded in 1990 by Don Kao, John Chin, and John Manzon. In the early 1990s, GAPIMNY organized with related groups to achieve greater visibility within the LGBTQ+ community and protest stereotypical public representations of Asian men and women. As the organization grew, it started hosting workshops for its community, established an online presence, and organized DynasTea, the organization's featured event from 1997 until 2006. In 2010, the organization debuted a newsmagazine called PersuAsian. In more recent years, GAPIMNY has increasingly partnered with other organizations to lead workshops and sponsor public programs on issues such as visibility, immigration, public health, and marriage equality. Some such collaborations include the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Pacific American Coalition for Equality (APACE), Asian Media Watchdog, and Asian Queer United in Action (AQUA). Recent programs and campaigns include participation in Chinatown's Lunar New Year Parade; continued protest over various examples of racial discrimination, homophobia, or transphobia; and DowneTime, a support program to provide a confidential space to discuss identity issues, attend health workshops, and connect with other members of the community. In 2018 the name of the organization changed from Gay and Pacific Islander Men of New York to GAPIMNY.
Source: https://wayback.archive-it.org/13239/20191210193116/http://gapimny.org/gapimny-history/
Arrangement
Files are arranged alphabetically by title or subject.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of material created and collected by GAPIMNY during the mid-1990s through the present in the course of their social, educational, and cultural programming for gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, same-gender loving, gender non-conforming, queer, and questioning people who are Asian Pacific Islander in the New York City area. Materials created by GAPIMNY include pamphlets, flyers, leaflets, brochures, stickers, photographs, newsletters, correspondence, meeting memoranda, and some artifacts that were used in parades or demonstrations. Many of these materials were used or intended for distribution, with both general informational documents about the organization and materials specific to particular events or individual advocacy campaigns related to issues such as racism, immigration, or public health. The ephemeral formats present display some of the methods by which the organization sought to reach out to and advocate for its membership. Some of the GAPIMNY initiatives documented in the collection include the multilingual "Love Has No Borders" campaign and the "(In)Visibly American" immigration program. The collection also includes magazines, literary journals, and materials produced by related organizations, the most prominent being the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA). This collection documents individual activists and community organizations providing support and resources for its membership, and addressing concerns of visibility, representation, and marginalization.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; GAPIMNY Records; TAM 675; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; GAPIMNY Records; TAM 675; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Dennis Chin and Jason Tseng on behalf of the Gay Asian and Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY) in 2015. The accession numbers associated with this gift are 2015.046 and 2015.052. In August 2021, Binh Hoang donated an accretion of administrative records; the accession number for this gift is 2021.037.
In December 2019, https://gaysiandiaries.com/ and http://gapimny.org/ were added to the web archive captured through the use of Archive-it. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with these websites are 2020.013.
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Appraisal
Two 3.5 inch floppy disks were discarded after imagining process determined there was no data present.
Take Down Policy
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About this Guide
Processing Information
Upon receipt, the majority of materials in this collection were loose, unarranged, and in no apparent order. Some like materials had been grouped together (e.g. - selections of leaflets and copies of newsletters), and these groupings were retained as much as possible. The loose material was examined with the intent of keeping materials together if they were created, used, or collected for the same purpose (e.g.- steering committee meeting agendas, "Love Has No Borders" campaign). A partial inventory of the materials was provided by the donors, which was used as the basis for both identification and description of items. Because of the variety of formats and the presence of oversized items, intellectual arrangement does not necessarily reflect physical arrangement.
In 2020, the archived websites were added to the finding aid.
In 2021, an accretion of administrative records was rehoused in archival folders, and intellectually integrated into the collection's existing alphabetical arrangement.
