by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog April 20, 2012 No Matter How Good, Scripted Conversations Have Nothing On An Authentic Story By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA This was a good week. One with fresh insights into what may work and what will defini...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog April 13, 2012 President Obama Let Slip An Opportunity For A More Inclusive We By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA As a rule, we avoid talking about politics. We learned the hard way that politics is a slippery sub...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog April 6, 2012 Between Policy and Reality There Falls The Shadow By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA A Dark Example We caught this story from Instinct Magazine about a drill sergeant who is virulently homophobic. It...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog March 30, 2012 We Collect Personal Stories Because They Are The Engine For Change By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA We have been going through the files of our past banquets to come up with quotes and ideas for t...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog March 23, 2012 Changing From What Was To What Is By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA An Asian lesbian told us that when she came out to her father he said that she still should get married to a man. She was indigna...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog March 16, 2012 API Family Pride’s Annual Banquet Celebrates Being A Family By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA You may have heard this. API family immigrates to America; son or daughter comes out as LGBT; parents...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog March 9, 2012 How Do We Construct A Message That Keeps API Families With LGBT Youth Together? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA To prepare for our upcoming Queer & Asian workshop at UC-Berkeley in April, we r...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog March 4, 2012 We Are Far From Mainstream, But LGBT Acceptance Is On The Rise By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA We were sitting around having a casual conversation over good food (Asian, of course!). We wondered i...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog February 24, 2012 Can A Case Be Made For Equality By Observing That We Are Just Like Them? By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA LinkedIn maintains discussions for their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &Transgender Commun...
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by Belinda Dronkers-Laureta on May 11th, 2016
Keeping Families Together The Asian And Pacific Islander Family Pride Blog February 17, 2012 What Happens After Same-Sex Marriage Is The Law? Work For Acceptance and Respect By BELINDA AND JOHN DRONKERS-LAURETA A few friends asked why we think that the fight for marriage equality is won wh...
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