1873-00-00: Stoddard, Charles Warren. South-Sea Idyls. Reprint, Sydney, Australia: Wentworth, 2019.

1889-10-02: Margaret Chung, the first Chinese American female doctor, is born in Santa Barbara, California.

1902-00-00: Noguchi, Yone. The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, edited by Edward Marx and Laura E. Franey. Reprint, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007.

1903-00-00: Noguchi, Yone. The American Letters of a Japanese Parlor-Maid. Reprint, Kessinger, 2018.

1904-12-00: Noguchi, Yone. “In the Bungalow with Charles Warren Stoddard.” National Magazine 21 (December 1904): 304-308.

1914-00-00: Noguchi, Yone. Through the Torii. Boston: Four Seas, 1922.

1914-00-00: Margaret Chung founds a medical sorority, Nu Sigma Phi, at the University of Southern California’s College of Physicians and Surgeons alongside the few other female medical students. While enrolled there, Chung also experiments with her gender and cultural identities by wearing dark suits and ties and slicking her hair back. She also gives several lectures about providing health care for Chinese people in Los Angeles.

1914-00-00: Noguchi, Yone. The Story of Yone Noguchi: Told by Himself, illustrated by Yoshio Markino. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs.

1914-09-24: Esther Eng is born in California on September 24, 1914, to parents who had immigrated from China. See The History of Esther Eng.

1918-02-10: Tara Singh and Jamil Singh, two Sikhs living in California, are arrested on charges of interracial sodomy in Sacramento.

1925-00-00: Margaret Chung helps found the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

1930-04-29: James Willis Toy is born in New York City; he becomes a leading gay liberation activist in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the 1970s.

1931-00-00: Following the outbreak of World War II, Margaret Chung establishes a kinship network of pilots, soldiers, and submariners (most of whom are white men). With these contacts, she helps recruit pilots for the Flying Tigers (the American volunteer air force in Asia) and advocates for the creation of a women’s naval reserve (WAVES).

1933-00-00: Parry, Albert. Garretts and Pretenders: History of Bohemianism in America. Reprint, New York: Cosmo Classics, 2005.

1936-00-00: Esther Eng co-produces Heartaches, a nine-reel Chinese-language romantic drama set in the context of Sino-Japanese conflicts. It is billed as "the first Cantonese singing-talking picture made in Hollywood." See The History of Esther Eng.

1937-00-00: Esther Eng makes her directorial debut with National Heroine, starring Wai Kim-Fong as a woman whose bravery and patriotism are equal to those of her male comrades. The film is hailed as an ode to Chinese womanhood and awarded a "Certificate of Merit" from the Kwangtung Federation of Women's Rights. See The History of Esther Eng.

1941-08-24: Merle Woo is born in San Francisco Chinatown to a Korean mother and Chinese father. She becomes an outspoken activist for Asian Americans, women, and the LGBTQ+ community. After her job as an Asian American studies lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, is terminated, she sues the school, suspecting that her activism against the university is what caused the termination. In 1986, she publishes Yellow Woman Speaks, a poetry anthology, making her one of the first Asian American women to openly publish lesbian poetry.

1942-09-00: Jiro Onuma, a gay Japanese American Issei (Japanese-born immigrant), is forcibly moved from the Tanforan Center in San Bruno, California, to Camp Topaz, an internment camp in Utah. At Camp Topaz, he establishes a secret relationship with another gay Japanese American named Ronald.

1943-05-09: Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Japanese American civil rights, gay liberation, antiwar, and AIDS activist, is born in a Wyoming Japanese internment camp. He becomes involved in activism movements during the 1960s and takes part in restaurant sit-ins, marches, and protests. During the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s, he participates in many ACT UP protests and founds the inclusive People With Aids (PWA) coalition in order to break down racial and economic barriers within the AIDS activism movement. He also creates the Critical Care Project, a newsletter, 24-hour telephone service, Web page, and free Internet service for people with AIDS/HIV in Philadelphia. See Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943-2000), Interviewed June 17, 1997.

1946-00-00: City in the Sun, a novel about the traumatic internment camp experiences of the Matsuki family, is published by Karen Kehoe, a white lesbian camp staff member. Although the novel hints at illicit same-sex relations between several internees, it is well received by many Japanese Americans.

1946-02-18: Willyce Kim, a Korean American lesbian poet and writer, is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After earning a B.A. in English from San Francisco College for Women, she moves to Oakland to join the Women’s Press Collective. She begins travelling across the country to distribute her self-published poetry books at alternative/women’s bookstores. As one of the few published Asian American lesbian authors in the 1970s, she becomes a role model to many aspiring writers. In the 1980s, she publishes two novels: Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid (1985) and Dead Heat (1988).

1949-10-27: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang is born in Hong Kong.

1952-09-04: Kitty Tsui is born in Kowloon, Hong Kong. While studying creative writing at San Francisco State University, she becomes an active member of the Third World student movement. In the late 1970s, she comes out to the Asian American community as queer with her article “Coming Out: We Are Here in the Asian Community: A Dialogue with Three Asian Women.”

1953-01-14: Barbara Noda, a third-generation Japanese American, is born in Stockton, California.

1953-04-25: Michiyo Fukaya (Margaret Cornell), a biracial lesbian writer and activist, is born in Japan.

1954-10-24: Siong-huat Chua, a writer and activist for queer and Asian American rights, is born in Malacca, Malaysia.

1955-00-00: Rosalie "Rose" Bamberger, a Filipina American woman, helps found the Daughters of Bilitis, the first national organization of lesbians in the United States.

1956-06-06: June Chan is born. She becomes an American lesbian activist and biologist. The organizer and co-founder of Asian Lesbians of the East Coast (ALOEC), Chan raises awareness of LGBTQ+ issues relating to the Asian American community.

1958-10-08: Urvashi Vaid, a South Asian LGBTQ and feminist activist, is born in New Delhi, India. While studying law at Northeastern University, Vaid works at Gay Community News, cofounds the Boston Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance, and helps convince Northeastern to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy. She begin her career as a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she challenges prison conditions; she later serves as the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. See Urvashi Vaid: The Vassar and Boston Years.

1960-00-00: Crystal Jang and several other women successfully petition the City College of San Francisco to allow women to wear pants on campus. They also protest a law requiring women to sit safely inside cable cars by hanging off the side during their commute.

1964-11-00: Ger van Bram, a young gay Djakarta woman, is the first recognizable person to be featured on the cover of Ladder, a monthly publication of the Daughters of Bilitis.

1965-07-04: Kiyoshi Kuromiya participates in a gay rights demonstration at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. See Annual Reminders in Philadelphia.

1966-00-00: Tamara Ching, an activist of Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and German descent, fights police harassment alongside other drag queens and trans people in the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot.

 

1968-10-18: Kiyoshi Kuromiya is featured in a Life magazine article about Students for a Democratic Society.

1970-00-00: Gil Mangaoang, a Filipino activist, matriculates at the City College of San Francisco, where he works with other students of color to establish the college’s first ethnic studies program. He also negotiates with the administration to ensure that Filipino history and Tagalog courses will be included in the curriculum.

1970-01-25: Esther Eng, filmmaker, restauranteur, gender rebel, passes away from cancer at the age of fifty-five at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. See The History of Esther Eng

1970-04-15: Jim Toy, representing the Gay Liberation Front of Ann Arbor, speaks at an antiwar demonstration in Detroit.

1970-05-29: Kiyoshi Kuromiya co-founds the Gay Liberation Front of Philadelphia at a meeting held at the gay collective Gazoo. See Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943-2000), Interviewed June 17, 1997.

1970-09-07: Kiyoshi Kuromiya delivers the report of the Male Homosexual Workshop at the Black Panther Party’s Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

1971-00-00: Jim Toy helps establish the Human Sexuality Office at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1972-00-00: Jim Toy co-authors Ann Arbor’s pride week proclamation, the first of its kind by a U.S. city, and Ann Arbor’s policy against sexual orientation discrimination.

1972-00-00: Kim, Willyce. Eating Artichokes. Oakland, CA: Women’s Press Collective.

1972-00-00: Kitty Tsui co-edits Third World Women. She is also the director of the Third World Poetry Space. Through the power of the written word, she hopes to empower and increase the visibility of Asian Americans.

1975-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang works with other LGBTQ+ activists as part of the Graduate Employees Organization to organize a strike at the University of Michigan. One of their demands is to include a sexual preference non-discrimination clause in their contract.

1975-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang publishes “Gay Awareness” in Bridge: An Asian American Perspective, the first national Asian American magazine. The essay condemns the lack of discussion surrounding the issue of being both Asian and gay.

1975-00-00: Yone Noguchi: Collected English Letters. Atsumi, Ikuko, editor. Tokyo: The Yone Noguchi Society.

1976-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang teaches “Politics of Gay Liberation,” one of the first classes on LGBTQ+ issues at the University of Michigan. He later co-teaches a class called “Lesbian and Gay Experience.”

1977-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang founds the Midwest Gay Academic Journal, hoping to increase the amount of research and writing about and by LGBTQ+ people.

1978-00-00: Crystal Jang speaks out against the Briggs Initiative, which would have made it legal to fire LGBTQ+ teachers, in a news interview conducted at the middle school where she works. Although she fears losing her job, Jang also participates in an anti-Briggs Initiative rally with the United Educators of San Francisco.

1978-00-00: Lisa Chun co-founds Asian Women, an Oakland-based non-political support group for Asian American lesbians.

1979-00-00: Barbara Noda, a queer Japanese American, publishes her first book of poetry, entitled Strawberries. Her poems feature gentle, nostalgic moments from her coming-of-age, while also challenging universal conceptions of feminists and lesbians.

1979-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang helps organize the first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference gathering of Asian American lesbians and gay men in Washington, D.C.

1979-00-00: Kitty Tsui, Nancy Hom, Genny Lim, Canyon Sam, Nellie Wong, and Merle Woo form Unbound Feet, a female performance group that challenges stereotypes about Asian American women.

1979-00-00: Noda, Barbara, Kitty Tsui, and Zee Wong. “Coming Out: We Are Here in the Asian American Community: A Dialogue with Three Asian Women.” Bridge: An Asian American Perspective.

1979-00-00: Michiyo Fukaya represents the recently formed Asian American gay and lesbian collective at the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Her speech “Living in Asian America,” delivered during a march rally at the Washington Monument, explains the struggles she faces as a poor lesbian woman of color and marks one of the first times in which the struggles of Asian American LGBTQ+ people are heard by a large audience. She also implores Asians in the crowd to come out despite fear of rejection; to not do so “would be living a lie.”

1979-00-00: Siong-Huat Chua becomes involved with the organization Boston Asian Gay Men and Lesbians, which expands in 1988 to become the Alliance of Massachusetts Asian Lesbians and Gay Men (AMALGAM). He collaborates with Nusrat Retina to include more lesbians in the group.

1979-05-00: “Tondemonai - Never Happen!” (the first commercial play to discuss Japanese internment and taboo topics like homosexuality without condemning it as a disease) premieres in Los Angeles. The movie’s central love story features a Japanese American man and Chinese American man who meet at Manzanar Camp. All of the actors, writers, and directors are Asian Americans who understand this history deeply, but the play receives mixed reviews.

1979-10-13: Tana Loy, a Chinese American lesbian, delivers the speech, “Who’s the Barbarian?” at the first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In her speech, she criticizes American imperialism and declares the conference “history-making” because it’s the first time gay Asians from many different parts of Asia have embraced each other with “open hearts and minds” and not allowed imperialism to alienate people of different ethnicities.

1980-00-00: Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays, the first queer Asian Pacific Islander organization on the West Coast, is founded in Los Angeles, California.

1980-00-00: The cover of the sixth issue of the journal Gay Insurgents prompts a cross-country search to learn about the Asian Americans who took part in the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979.

1980-00-00: Loy, Tana. “Who’s the Barbarian? An Asian American Lesbian Speaks Before the Third World Conference.” Gay Insurgent: A Gay Left Journal, no. 6 (Summer 1980): 15.

1981-00-00: Anzaldúa, Gloria and Cherrie Moraga, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Watertown, MA: Persephone, 1981.

1981-00-00: Merle Woo, a member of Unbound Feet, sues the University of California, Berkeley, after the university refuses to renew her contract as a lecturer in Asian American Studies. In 1984, she reaches a settlement of $73,584 and two years of employment.

1981-00-00: Michiyo Fukaya, one of the earliest outspoken activists against racism within the LGBTQ+ community, publishes a book of poems called Lesbian Lyrics.

1981-05-00: Barbara Noda directs a play called Aw Shucks! (Shigata Ga Nai) at the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco. The play takes the form of a three-part conversation involving lesbians White, Pink, and Green about monetary success, intimacy, love, drugs, and religion.

1982-00-00: Helen Zia, a Chinese American lesbian community organizer and journalist, co-founds American Citizens for Justice, the first Asian American grassroots advocacy effort. In the wake of the death of Vincent Chin (an Asian man beaten to death while being called slurs), Zia leads the fight for justice with the hopes of preventing future hate crimes.

1983-00-00: After the Los Angeles-based organization Asian Pacific Lesbians and Gays becomes exclusively male and rebrands itself as Asian Pacific Gays and Friends, a group of women form a separate organization called Asian Pacific Lesbians and Friends.

1983-00-00: June Chan and Katherine Hall meet and begin working on projects together. They create a slide show about Asian lesbians in history and literature, described as "grassroots scholarship" by librarian and archivist Polly Thistlethwaite. The slide show is described by its creators as giving lesbians "a larger context for ourselves as Asian and Pacific Islander peoples, as people of color in the United States, and as lesbians.”

1983-00-00: Duran, Khalid. “Homosexuality and Islam.” In Homosexuality and World Religions. Edited by Arlene Swidler. Valley Forge, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 1983.

1983-00-00: Katherine Hall and Chea Villanueva, both mixed-race Asians, found a group called Asian Lesbians of the East Coast.

1983-00-00: Michiyo Cornell, a poet who would later change her last name to Fukaya, organizes Vermont’s first queer pride celebration, entitled “Lesbian and Gay Pride.”

1983-00-00: Tsui, Kitty. The Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire. New York: Spinsters Ink, 1983.

1984-00-00: An organization called Asians and Friends-Chicago is created by thirteen gay men with the goal of providing a supportive environment for other gay Asians. They march in the Chicago gay and lesbian pride parade.

1984-00-00: Steve Lew and Prescott Chow form the Gay Asian Rap Group (GARP) in Long Beach, California. In 1989, GARP turns into the Gay Asian Pacific Support Network to create a space primarily for API men. David Hong hosts many meetings in his home, and monthly rap sessions are held at the Chinatown Service Center Annex in Los Angeles.

1984-03-00: Asian Lesbians of the East Coast publishes the first ALOEC Newsletter.

1984-09-00: Asian Lesbians of the East Coast publishes the second ALOEC Newsletter.

1985-00-00: Kim, Willyce. Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid. Boston: Alyson, 1985.

1985-00-00: Patricia Kimura, Mutiara Timor, and Lola Lai Jong found an organization called Chicago Asian Lesbians Moving (CALM). They also create CALM Voices, the first Midwestern API lesbian newsletter.

1986-00-00: In San Francisco, the first Asian-focused AIDS task force is founded to conduct a needs assessment and raise funds. The task force later becomes the Asian Pacific AIDS Coalition, which includes the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA).

1986-00-00: Kitty Tsui, a bodybuilder, writer, and LGBTQ+ activist, wins a bronze medal in women’s physique at the second Gay Games.

1986-00-00: SANGAT Chicago, one of the first LGBTQ+ South Asian support groups in the United States, is created by Viru Joshi, Paul Samuelson, Ifti Nasim, and Ravi Joshi. It is originally named Trikone, the word for “triangle” in many South Asian languages (likely a reference to the pink triangle symbol used in gay liberation movements), but the name is later changed to SANGAT, the Sanskrit word for “companionship and togetherness.”

1986-00-00: Trikone, a newsletter for LGBTQ+ people of South Asian descent, is first published in Palo Alto, California. Soon after, more chapters of Trikone form all over the world.

1986-00-00: Urvashi Vaid becomes the media director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She would go on to become its executive director in 1989 and the director of the NGLTF Policy Institute in 1997. During this time, she co-founds the annual Creating Change Conference, a leadership development and activism conference for the LGBTQ+ community.

1986-00-00: Woo, Merle. Yellow Woman Speaks: Selected Poems. Seattle: Radical Women, 1986.

1987-00-00: Chung, C., A. Kim, and A. K. Lemeshewsky, eds. Between the Lines: An Anthology of Pacific/Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California. Santa Cruz, CA: Dancing Bird, 1987.

1987-00-00: Eighty people, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area, attend the first West Coast Asian Pacific Lesbian Retreat in Sonoma, California.

1987-00-00: Siong-huat Chua joins the board of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, through which he helps introduce new computer technology. He also organizes forums on lesbian and gay immigrants.

1987-00-00: The San Francisco-based Asian American Recovery Services (AARS) establishes the Asian AIDS Project, the first organization to assist API people with HIV/AIDS prevention. AARS also helps API city leaders organize the Asian AIDS Taskforce, which mobilizes community resources to fight AIDS.

1988-00-00: Donna Keiko Ozawa cofounds the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center (LYRIC), the first queer youth organization in San Francisco. In 1991, the group receives financial support from the San Francisco Mayor’s Office to transition from a collective to a service provider and soon thereafter purchases a permanent home in the Castro District.

1988-00-00: Ichioka, Yuji. The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885- 1924. New York: The Free Press, 1988.

1988-00-00: Lia Shigemura, an Okinawan and Japanese American, helps establish the Asian Women’s Shelter, which provides services for non-English-speaking refugee and immigrant survivors of domestic violence in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1990, the group adds a Lesbian Services Program.

1988-00-00: Partly in response to the growing AIDS epidemic, the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance forms in San Francisco. Similar groups throughout the country (including Gay Asians and Pacific Islanders of Chicago and Asian and Pacific Islander Queers United for Action) hold meetings to discuss experiences with racisms, heterosexism, and oppression within their communities. Though these groups often struggle with balancing support and advocacy, many are successful in joining with queer women’s groups to bring greater visibility to pride marches and cultural celebrations. GAPA also creates an informal support group for HIV-positive gay Asians.

1988-00-00: The Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society (GLAS) is founded in the United States, later expanding to include international chapters. The goal of the society is to provide a support network for LGBTQ+ Arab people, fight negative portrayals of Arab people within the LGBTQ+ community, and help prevent discrimination against all LGBTQ+ people.

1989-00-00: Issan (Tommy Dorsey), a leader in the early LGBTQ+ Buddhist movement, becomes the Abbot of the Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco. Members of the HSZC later create Maitri, a hospice for AIDS patients.

1989-00-00: Judy Chen, Lola Lai Jong, and Mars create the Pacifica Asian Lesbian Networking-Chicago group, which lasts for ten years. PALs is a social and political group open exclusively to lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women.

1989-00-00: Kiyoshi Kuromiya founds Critical Path, one of the earliest and most comprehensive public resources available for treating HIV/AIDS.

1989-00-00: Lim, Shirley Geok-lin, Mayumi Tsutakawa and Margarita Donnelly, editors. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology. Corvallis OR: Calyx Books, 1989.

1989-00-00: Ramzi Zakharia establishes the Gay and Lesbian Arabic Society in Washington, D.C. Over the course of seven years, GLAS chapters form in Los Angeles and New York.

1989-00-00: The first national Asian Pacific Lesbian retreat, entitled “Coming Together, Moving Forward,” is held in Santa Cruz, California. The retreat brings together over 140 API lesbians from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

1989-00-00: Urvashi Vaid, a South Asian American activist and attorney, begins her three-year term as executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (now known as the LGBTQ Task Force).

1989-05-00: Huda Jadallah founds the Arab Lesbian Network, the first Arab American lesbian organization, in Berkeley, California. To be more inclusive, the name is later changed to Arab Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Network.

1990-00-00: Harold and Ellen Kameya, who are Okinawan, become actively involved in Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) two years after their daughter comes out as gay. They become known as the first Asian American parents to publicly advocate for their gay children. In 2012, the Kameyas and several other API parents found the first API PFLAG chapter in San Gabriel Valley.

1990-00-00: Roberto Alfajora founds the Asian American AIDS Foundation (AAAF) with the goal of increasing the visibility of AIDS within Chicago’s Asian communities, fundraising to support those with AIDS, and bridging the gap between gay and non-gay Asian communities in Chicago.

1990-00-00: Takenori Yamamoto becomes the first openly gay president of the San Fernando chapter of the Japanese American Citizens’ League (JACL). He helps advocate for the organization’s endorsement of gay marriage four years later at its national convention.

1990-06-10: The Lesbian Arab Network meets for the first time at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York City. The organization only lasts a year, but most members would continue to be active in Arab American LGBTQ+ groups.

1991-00-00: Austen, Roger. Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard. Edit. John W. Crowley. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.

1991-00-00: After the creation of the San Francisco organization FABRIC (Fresh Asians Becoming Real in the Community), several support and social organizations for queer Asian Pacific Islander youth form all over the country. For example, the PAY (Pride for Asian Youth) program is created in Atlanta and the “Slice of Rice” group is created in Boston.

1991-00-00: Hutchins, Loraine, and Lani Ka’ahumanu, eds. Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Boston: Alyson, 1991.

1991-00-00: Kambal sa Lusog, an organization for LGBTQ+ Filipinos and Filipinas in New York City, forms in response to the controversy over the racist and sexist undertones of the Broadway show Miss Saigon.

1991-00-00: The Gay Buddhist Fraternity, an independent society for LGBTQ+ Buddhists, is founded in San Francisco. The fraternity is mostly attended by men.

1991-00-00: Urvashi Vaid, a dedicated activist for causes like LGBTQ+ rights, racial equality, and HIV/AIDS work, is named The Advocate’s Woman of the Year.

1991-04-06: The Actor’s Equity Association joins Asian Lesbians of the East Coast to protest two LGBTQ+ institutions’ use of Miss Saigon (a musical that promoted stereotypical images of submissive Orientals and used yellowface in the casting of one actor) in their annual fundraisers. The two hosts, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and NYC’s Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, decide to go on with the fundraiser as planned. Although the protestors’ efforts fail, the event still brings together numerous communities all denouncing racism, misogyny, and Orientalism.

1992-00-00: Curtis Chin, Christina Chiu, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, and Bino A. Realuyo found the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and publish the first issue of The Asian Pacific American Journal.

1993-00-00: Ratti, Rakesh, ed. A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience. Boston: Alyson, 1993.

1993-00-00: Students at the University of California, Berkeley, form CAL-B-GAY (Cal Asian Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Alliances You-nited). Several other queer API alliances form on college campuses in the early 2000s, such as Mothra at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Trikone-Tejas at the University of Texas at Austin.

1993-00-00: Tsang, Daniel C. “Breaking the Silence: The Emergence of the Lesbian and Gay Asian Press in North America.” In Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives. Edited by Linda A. Revilla et al. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1993.

1993-07-00: Aguilar-San Juan, Karin. “Landmarks in Literature by Asian Americans.” Signs 18, no. 4 (July 1993): 936-943.

1994-00-00: Amerasia Journal: Dimensions in Desire 20, no. 1 (1994).

1994-00-00: Kilawin Kolektibo, a networking and support group for LGBTQ+ Filipinas, is formed in New York City.

1994-00-00: Lesbian and bisexual API women produce The Very Inside, a collection of 100+ pieces edited by Sharon-Lim Hing. At the time, Asian American women writers have very few opportunities to publish their work in anthologies.

1994-00-00: Lim-Hing, Sharon. The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1994.

1994-00-00: Makoto, Furukawa and Angus Lockyer. “The Changing Nature of Sexuality: The Three Codes Framing Homosexuality in Modern Japan.” U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement, no. 7 (1994): 98-127.

1994-00-00: Pine United Methodist Church in San Francisco, one of the oldest Japanese American churches, becomes the first reconciling (queer-friendly) Asian American church.

1994-00-00: The Japanese American Citizens League, a national civil rights organization, creates an Asian Pacific Islander Lambda chapter to help address LGBTQ+ issues among APAs. The JACL also votes in favor of same-sex marriage, despite never having supported legislation that protects LGBTQ+ people. This action makes the league the first national racial minority group organization to publicly support same-sex marriage, revealing the changing perspectives of the Japanese American community on queerness.

1994-04-00: The organizers of the San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival invite over one hundred LGBTQ+ women and men to march in the parade. Community leader June Sugihara declares that “it is so very important to recognize and support the lesbian and gay people in our Japanese American community.”

1994-09-02: Tsang, Daniel C. “Founder of First Gay and Lesbian Asian Group Succumbs to AIDS.” Asian Week 3 (2 September 1994): 19.

1995-00-00: After attending the 1994 Rice Festival in New York, Pauline Park, I Li Hsiao, Lance Chen Hayes, and Sam Chiu are inspired to found an organization called Gay Asian Pacific Islanders of Chicago (GAPIC).

1995-00-00: After suing the CIA for surveilling him and other radical activists in the late 1980s, Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang wins a settlement of $46,000. The CIA agrees to stop surveilling him.

1995-00-00: Greg Louganis, a mixed-race Samoan and white diver, publishes his autobiography Breaking the Surface, in which he publicly comes out as gay after nearly a decade of rumors surrounding his sexuality. Unfortunately, coming out as a popular athlete caused him to lose millions of dollars in sponsorships. The book quickly became a New York Times #1 Bestseller, marking the start of Louganis’s career as an activist.

1995-00-00: Henry, Jim. "June Chan." In Zia, Helen; Gall, Susan B. (eds.). Notable Asian Americans. Gale Research, Inc.

1995-00-00: Khuli Zaban, a group for South and West Asian queer women, forms in Chicago.

1995-00-00: Leupp, Gary. Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

1995-00-00: Neena Hemmady and Arzu co-found Khuli Zaban, a support group for South and West Asian lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women. In 1997, they publish a special edition of the Shamakami Newsletter, an international publication run by South Asian lesbian and bisexual women.

1995-00-00: The organization O Moi forms as a support network for Vietnamese lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people living in Los Angeles and Orange County, California.

1995-00-00: Ting, Jennifer. “Bachelor Society: Deviant Heterosexuality and Asian American Historiography.” In Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. Edited by Gary Y. Okihiro et al. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995.

1995-00-00: The San Francisco chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) creates the API-PFLAG Family Project (also called API Family Pride), which produces a video documentary to help APA families discuss sexual orientation and a support network for APA parents and families.

1995-00-00: Trikone, a South Asian community group in Los Angeles, organizes the first DesiQ meeting, bringing together South Asian queer people from all over North America. It is originally called Pride Utsav, meaning “festival,” and renamed DesiQ in 2003.

1995-00-00: Villanueva, Chea. Jessie’s Song and Other Stories. New York: Masquerade, 1995.

1996-00-00: Gil Guag creates Chingusai-Chicago, a Korean American group for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The word “chingusai” means “between friends” in Korean.

1996-00-00: Hall, Lisa, Kahaleole Chang, and J. Kehaulani Kauanui. “Same-Sex Sexuality in Pacific Literature.” In Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience. Edited by Russell Leong. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1996.

1996-00-00: Jesook Song and Sunyoo Kim create the Korean American Lesbi Advocate (KoALA) with the goal of maintaining connections with other Korean lesbians and fostering LGBTQ+ acceptance in Korean communities

1996-00-00: Kitty Tsui wins the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for her book Breathless.

1996-00-00: Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a gay Japanese American activist, becomes the plaintiff in an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging the Communications Decency Act. He fights for the right to distribute sex education information to youth.

1996-00-00: Leong, Russell, ed. Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience. New York: Routledge, 1996.

1996-00-00: Many LGBTQ+ API groups, such as Chingusai, GAPIC, Khuli Zaban, KoALA, PALs Networking-Chicago, and SANGAT, join together to form the Asian Pacific Islander and South Asian Coalition (APISAC).

1996-00-00: Reyes, Eric Estuar. “Strategies for Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Spaces.” In Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience. Edited by Russell Leong. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 1996.

1996-00-00: Trinity Ordona, a Filipina lesbian, collaborates with the API-PFLAG Family Project to produce Coming Out, Coming Home, the first documentary film in which Asian parents discussed their queer children.

1996-00-00: Tsui, Kitty. Breathless: Erotica. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand, 1996.

1996-03-00: Katherine Sherif forms the first Arab lesbian, bisexual, and transgender email list following the rise of the Internet. The women on the list participate in an annual gathering in places like the Marin Headlands of California and the Catskills in New York.

1996-05-00: The APISAC marches in the Chicago Asian American Parade, making history as the first explicitly Asian LGBTQ+ group to march in the parade. In June 1966, the APISAC marches in Chicago’s Pride Parade, along with the Asian American AIDS Foundation (AAAF) and Asians and Friends-Chicago (AFC).

1996-09-00: Wilkinson, Willie, "Out, Loud, and Seen, The Asian and Pacifica Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Movement Past and Present," Curve, September 1996.

1997-00-00: Fumia, Molly. Honor Thy Children: One Family’s Journey to Wholeness. Berkeley, CA: Conari, 1997.

1997-00-00: Khan, Badruddin. Sex, Longing, and Not Belonging: A Gay Muslim’s Quest for Love and Meaning. Oakland, Calif.: Floating Lotus, 1997.

1997-00-00: Villanueva, Chea.  Bulletproof Butches. New York: Hard Candy, 1997.

1997-04-00: Twelve lesbian and bisexual Arab and Iranian American women form a group for Arab and Iranian lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women, later named Assal East Coast. The group’s mission is to provide a space for queer Arab American women to empower themselves, foster connections, and advocate for acceptance within Arab and Iranian communities.

1997-04-26: California State University’s Asian American Studies Department joins together with the university’s Center for Sex Research, UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry, and the Gay Vietnamese Alliance to sponsor “CrossTalk: Asian and Pacific American Sensuality and Sexuality.”

1997-11-00: The Al-Fatitha Foundation, a support and advocacy group for LGBTQ+ Muslims, is founded by Faisal Alam. He creates a listserv (an online email discussion group) for LGBTQ+ Muslims, and the group decides to hold the First International Retreat for LGBT Muslims a year later in Boston, Massachusetts.

1998-00-00:  Carmichael Jr., James Vinson. Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History. Praeger. p. 162 on June Chan.

1998-00-00: Eng, David L. and Alice Y. Hom, eds. Q&A: Queer in Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.

1998-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang, an Asian American LGBTQ+ activist, helps organize the first Tongzhi Conference alongside activists like Russell Leong, the editor of the Amerasia Journal.

1998-00-00: The Gay Polynesians Alliance of California, later renamed United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA), forms in San Francisco.

1998-00-00: Thistlethwaite, Polly. An Activist's Guide to Lesbian History: A Companion to the Video Not Just Passing Through. CUNY Academic Works.

1999-00-00: Al and Jane Nakatani, the parents of two queer APA children, found an educational organization called Honor Thy Children with the goal of promoting the acceptance of human diversity among all children.

1999-00-00: Chutney Popcorn, a film written by and starring Nisha Ganatra, is one of the first South Asian films to premiere at Outfest, a queer film festival based in Los Angeles. It also wins the Audience Award that year.

1999-00-00: Lee, Robert G. Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

1999-00-00: More than twenty ethnic-specific women’s organizations have joined the API Queer Women’s Coalition.

1999-00-00: The Bay Area-located Mandarin Asian Pacific Lesbian Bisexual Network produces a booklet titled “Beloved Daughter” to help Chinese American families communicate about sexual orientation.

1999-01-00: Bassam Kassab founds Karama (also known as the New England Lavender Society), a support group of LGBTQ+ Arabs, Persians, and Turks. Members participate in monthly gatherings, book readings, and lectures, and thirteen members even marched in the 1999 Boston Pride Parade.

1999-04-09: Arizona State University’s Asian Pacific American Studies Program hosts a conference with the theme “Asian Pacific American Genders and Sexualities,” representing an increase in queer visibility within the academic world.

2000-00-00: Bao, Quang and Hanya Yanagihara, eds. Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America. New York: Asian American Writer’s Workshop, 2000.

2000-00-00: Daniel Chuen-Tuen Tsang, an Asian American LGBTQ activist, is awarded the Media Award by Orange County Culture Pride. He is also awarded the Jackie Eubanks Memorial Award by the American Library Association’s Alternatives in Print Task Force. At the time, he was on the editorial board of the Journal of Homosexuality and hosting a weekly radio program called “Subversity.”

2000-00-00: Members of the Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian, Women, and Transgender Network (APLBTN) spearhead the API LGBT Task Force, which provides testimonies and recommendations for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

2000-00-00: Ordona, Trinity Ann. “Coming Out Together: An Ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women’s and Transgendered People’s Movement of San Francisco.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2000.

2000-00-00: Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara work with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop in New York to publish Take Out, an anthology that helps bring gay Asian men into the writing world, which had been largely dominated by queer women. The editors of the primarily-male anthology decided to “not worry about gender equity” because it was far better to “sacrifice quantity for quality.”

2000-00-00: Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

2000-00-00: Vince Christomoso, a Chamorro man who became the first publicly out HIV-positive Pacific Islander at World AIDS Day in 1991, returns to Guam. He becomes the executive director for the first community-based organization working on AIDS prevention in the Pacific Islands.

2000-00-00: Woo, Merle. “Three Decades of Class Struggle on Campus.” In Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America. Edited by Fred Ho. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Big Red Media, 2000.

2000-00-00: Zia, Helen. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People. See pp. 228-229. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

2000-09-00: Heba Nimr, Laura Farha, and Bassam Kassab found the Southwest Asian and North African Bay Area Queers, a support and discussion forum that includes LGBTQ+ Afghans, Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians, Berbers, Cypriots, Kurds, Persians, and Turks. Members of the group participate in regular gatherings and parties, and over thirty march in the 2002 San Francisco Pride Parade.

2001-00-00: Eng, David. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

2001-00-00: Matzner, Andrew, ed. ‘O Au No Keia: Voices from Hawai’i’s Mahu and Transgender Communities. Xlibris Corporation, 2001.

2001-00-00: Masequesmay, Gina. Becoming Queer and Vietnamese American: Negotiating Multiple Identities in an Ethnic Support Group of Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Female-to-Male Transgenders. Ph.D. diss., University of California at Los Angeles, 2001.

2001-00-00: Ordona, Trinity Ann. Coming Out Together: An Ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women’s and Transgendered People’s Movement of San Francisco (California). Ph.D. diss., University of California at Santa Cruz, 2001.

2001-00-00: Shah, Nayan. “Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity.” In his Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

2001-00-00: Varney, Joan Ariki. “Undressing the Normal: Community Efforts for Queer Asian and Asian American Youth.” In Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education. Edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.

2001-00-00: Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun.“Was Mom Chung a ‘Sister Lesbian’? Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism.” Journal of Women’s History 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 58–82.

2002-00-00: Baroudi, Lina. I Exist: Voices from the Lesbian and Gay Middle Eastern Community in the U.S. A film produced by Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir. San Francisco: EyeBite Productions, 2002.

2002-00-00: Christopher Lee is chosen as the first openly transgender man to be the Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade.

2002-00-00: Dana Y. Takagi becomes the first openly lesbian leader of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS).

2002-00-00: De Jesus, Melinda. “Rereading History, Rewriting Desire: Reclaiming Queerness in Carlos Bulosan’s ‘America Is in the Heart’ and Bienvenido Santos’ ‘Scent of Apples.’ ” Journal of Asian American Studies 5, no. 2 (2002): 91-111.

2002-00-00: Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla, a queer Kenyan-Indian immigrant, releases his first book, Ode to Lata. His writing drew from his experiences as an immigrant as well as the community he found in Satrang, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting queer South Asians. Ode to Lata was turned into a film called The Ode, which debuted at Outfest Film Festival in 2008.

2002-00-00: Massad, Joseph. “Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World.” Public Culture 14, no. 2 (2002): 361–385.

2002-00-00: Naber, Nadine. “Arab San Francisco: On Gender, Cultural Citizenship and Belonging.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Davis, 2002.

2002-00-00: Okazaki, Sumie. “Influences of Culture on Asian Americans’ Sexuality.” Journal of Sex Research 39, no. 1 (2002) 34-41.

2002-00-00: Robertson, Carolina E. “The M~hã of Hawai’i.” In Pacific Disapora: Island Peoples in the United States and Across the Pacific. Edited by Paul Spickard, Joanne L. Rondilla, and Debbie Hippolite Wright. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002.

2002-00-00: Wat, Eric C. The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles. Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

2003-00-00: Hsu, Madeline Y.  “Unwrapping Orientalist Constraints: Restoring Homosocial Normativity to Chinese American History,” Amerasia Journal 29, no. 2 (2003): 230-253.

2003-00-00: Lai, Eric Yo Ping. “Queer APA Households by the Numbers.” In The New Face of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity, and Change in the 21st Century. Edited by Eric Yo Ping Lai and Dennis Arguelles. San Francisco: Asian Week, 2003.

2003-00-00: Manalansan, Martin. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

2003-08-00: Around seventy LGBTQ+ Muslims and allies meet in New York City for “Our Individual Lives; Our Collective Journey,” a national conference in which different panels discuss LGBTQ+ Muslim life and how the 9/11 attacks have affected it.

2004-00-00: Kao, Don. "Reminiscences of Don Kao: Oral History.

2004-00-00: Lavender Phoenix, a national coalition of queer API activists, is formed in response to a 6,000-person rally attempting to attack marriage equality. This rally is held by Chinese Christian leaders in San Francisco. Originally the Asian Pacific American Coalition for Equality, Lavender Phoenix uses storytelling, organizing, and advocacy to fight for the rights of queer API people nationwide.

2004-00-00: Lee, Joon Oluchi. “Joy of the Castrated Boy.” Social Text 23, no. 3 (2004): 35-56.

2005-00-00: Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

2005-00-00: Dang, Alain and Mandy Hu. Asian Pacific American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People: A Community Portrait. A Report from New York’s Queer Asian Pacific Legacy Conference, 2004. New York: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, 2005.

2005-00-00: Gopinath, Gayatri. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.

2005-00-00: Shah, Nayan. “Between ‘Oriental Depravity’ and ‘Natural Degenerates’: Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans.” American Quarterly 57, no. 3 (2005) 703-725.

2005-00-00: Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy. Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

2006-00-00: Tamara Ching is awarded the Community Service Award from the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club.

2006-00-00: Yoshino, Kenji. Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. New York: Random House.

2006: Amerasia Journal: Marriage Equality Debate 32, no. 1 (2006).

2007-00-00: Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.

2008-00-00: Beatie, Thomas. Labor of Love: The Story of One Man’s Extraordinary Pregnancy. Berkeley: Seal, 2008.

2008-00-00: Howard, John. Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese American in the House of Jim Crow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

2008-00-00: Satrang, a Los Angeles-based queer community group, organizes a pride parade in Artesia (a.k.a. “Little India”) on National Coming Out Day.

2009-00-00: Masequesmay, Gina and Metzger, Sean. Embodying Asian/American Sexualities. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.

2010-04-10: Dan Choi, a Korean American Iraq veteran, handcuffs himself to the White House fence in protest of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. A year prior, he had publicly come out on the Rachel Maddow show.

2011-00-00: Amerasia Journal: Further Desire—Asian and Asian American Sexualities 37, no. 2 (2011).

2011-00-00: Hom, Alice. “Unifying Differences: Lesbian of Color Organizing in Los Angeles and New York.” Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate University, 2011.

2011-00-00: Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

2011-00-00: Sueyoshi, Amy. “Miss Morning Glory: Orientalism and Misogyny in the Queer Writings of Yone Noguchi.” Amerasia Journal 37, no. 2 (2011): 2-27.

2012-00-00: Aizumi, Marsha. Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance. Bronx, NY: Magnus, 2012.

2012-00-00: Cutler, Phoebe. “Joaquin Miller and the Social Circle at the Hights.” California History 90, no. 1, (2012): 40-61, 66-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41853239.

2012-00-00: Parreñas Shimizu, Celine. Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Masculinities in the Movies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

2012-00-00: Sueyoshi, Amy. Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012.

2013-00-00: Crystal Jang, the first openly lesbian Asian teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District, serves as the Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade in honor of her contributions to the LGBTQ community. Aside from fighting the Briggs Initiative, she also served as a coordinator at the Office of Support Services for Sexual Minority Youth and Families, where she created K-12 grade curriculum for staff trainings to address bullying and anti-gay discrimination.

2013-00-00: Takemoto, Tina. “Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation on the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.” GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 20, no. 3. 241-275. 2013.

2014-00-00: George Choy, a San Francisco AIDS activist, is honored with a sidewalk plaque in the Castro District’s Rainbow Honor Walk, which memorializes heroes in LGBTQ+ history.

2014-00-00: Hoang, Nguyen Tan. A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.

2014-00-00: Lim, Eng-Beng. Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performances in the Asias. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

2014-00-00: Nagarajan, Mala. “Queer South Asian Organizing in the United States.” Trikone Magazine 28, no. 1 (2014): 4-7.

2014-00-00: Shah, Nayan. “Race-ing Sex.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 35, no. 1 (2014): 26-36.

2014-00-00: Sueyoshi, Amy. “Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco.” In Contingent Maps: Rethinking the North American West and Western Women’s History edited by Susan Gray and Gayle Gullett. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.

2014-00-00: Tarnoff, Ben. The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature. New York: Penguin, 2014. 

2014-00-00: The University of Pennsylvania forms Penn Q&A, its first queer and Asian student group.

2015-00-00: Leong, Andrew. “The Pocket and the Watch: A Collective Individualist Reading of Japanese  American Literature.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1, no. 2 (2015): 76-114.

2015-00-00: Sueyoshi, Amy. “Why Queer Asian American Studies?” Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora, Special Issue - Conjecturing Communities: The Ebbs and Flows of Japanese 11, nos. 1 & 2, ed., Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (Summer 2015): 104-120.

2015-07-01: The Respect After Death Act (California Assembly Bill 1577), which allows transgender people to record their chosen genders on their death certificates, passes thanks to Chinese and Mexican American Chino Scott-Chung, who originally brought the issue to the attention of the Transgender Law Center, and Japanese American Kris Hayashi, who led the TLC through lobbying for the passage of AB 1577.

2016-00-00: Kitty Tsui, a writer and LGBTQ+ activist, is awarded the Phoenix Award for lifetime achievement from the Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community.

2016-00-00: Clara Yoon, the co-founder and president of Korean American Rainbow Parents, organizes the first national Korean American LGBTQ+ seminar in Washington DC. About 60 people from the U.S. and Korea attended.

2016-00-00: Sueyoshi, Amy. "Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History. Chapter 11 in Megan E. Springate, editor, LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (National Park Foundation and the National Park Service, 2016).

2016-00-00: Sueyoshi, Amy. “Queer Asian American Historiography.” In Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, edited by Eiichiro Azuma and David Yoo, 267-278. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

2016-00-00: The Society for Queer Asian Studies is established as an affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies.

2017-00-00: Stoddard, Charles Warren. “A South Sea Idyl,” from The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories. Edit. Christopher Looby. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

2018-06-06: Lee, Patrick G., “Searching for Queer Asian Pacific America,” NBC News, Part 1 of 5, June 6, 2018. Episode 1: "‘We’re Asians, Gay & Proud’: The story behind the photo"

2018-06-13: Lee, Patrick G., "Searching for Queer Asian Pacific America," NBC News, Part 2 of 5, June. Episode 2: API TransFusion: The journey to the historic retreat The story behind API TransFusion, the first national gathering for Asian and Pacific Islander transmasculine people, opens up conversations with LGBTQ activists who have fought for liberation since the 1980s.

2018-06-20: Lee, Patrick G., "Searching for Queer Asian Pacific America," NBC News, Part 3 of 5, June 20, 2018.) Episode 3: Visibility at Pride: The Pacific Islanders Who Marched in 1982

2018-06-26: Lee, Patrick G., "Searching for Queer Asian Pacific America," NBC News, Part 4 of 5, Episode 4: Exploring the roots of Chicago’s queer South Asian community, June 26, 2018.

2018-06-28: Lee, Patrick G., "Searching for Queer America," NBC News, Part 5 of 5, June 28, 2018. Episode 5: Tracing the evolution of Asian-Pacific Islander LGBTQ nightlife spaces. LGBTQ nightlife spaces can be key to building community. For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, building those spaces with other communities of color can also help provide a sense of home. 

2020-00-00: Patrick G Lee, director. Unspoken. Documentary about Six LGBTQ Asian Americans Coming Out to Their Immigrant Parents. UNSPOKEN explores the challenges of talking with immigrant parents about queerness, gender identity, and sexuality. In the film, six queer and trans Asian Americans read coming out letters that they wrote to their parents – sharing what they would say if they didn’t face language, generational, and cultural barriers in communicating with their families of origin. The interviewees hail from across the Asian diaspora — with roots in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, and Korea. Available from Third World Newsreel.

2022-02-08: Chantale Wong is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. director of the Asian Development Bank after being nominated by U.S. President Joseph Biden. She is the first out lesbian and LGBTQ+ person of color to serve an ambassador-level position. In a White House press release, she is described as “a leading authority in international development policy with over 30 years of experience in the multi-disciplinary field that includes finance, technology, and the environment.”

2023-10-17: Curtis Chin, a Chinese American gay man, publishes his memoir Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. The book explores themes of racial identity in America, growing up in an immigrant family, and coming to terms with your own identity. In 2023, it was named one of TIME’s Most Anticipated Books and Lambda Literary Review’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature.