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‘Trans Allyship: Learn, Grow Act’
September 26, 2024 by Nichi Bei News
Okaeri, the Japanese American Citizens League and PFLAG will host “Trans Allyship: Learn, Grow Act” from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PST on Zoom. The online symposium “grew from the […] READ MORE
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Activism in reporting
March 2, 2023 by Nichi Bei News
In 2016, I penned an op-ed describing the fear many in the transgender community felt following the election of President Donald Trump. We rushed to process paperwork for gender change […] READ MORE
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Creating Space For Queer Nikkei: Okaeri holds online conference to educate and form community
December 9, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Delayed by about a year, and held wholly online, Okaeri Los Angeles held its fourth conference to connect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Nikkei and their allies from across […] READ MORE
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U.S.-based soccer player Yokoyama comes out as transgender
June 24, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
TOKYO — Japanese forward Kumi Yokoyama, who plays for the Washington Spirit in the U.S.-based National Women’s Soccer League, has come out as transgender in a YouTube video. “In the […] READ MORE
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The pronoun revolution
January 1, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
In January 2016, more than 300 linguists, lexicographers, grammarians and etymologists — all members of the 127-year-old American Dialect Society — gathered at the Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C. where […] READ MORE
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L.A. ministers criticize anti-gay policy of United Methodist Churches
April 11, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
LOS ANGELES — Disturbed by the United Methodist Church’s continuing anti-gay stance, Revs. Mark Nakagawa and Sunyoung Lee, two local ministers with connections to Little Tokyo’s Centenary United Methodist Church, […] READ MORE
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Queering the inquiry of Asian American art
July 19, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
QUEERING CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN ART Edited By Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017, 296 pp., $90 hardcover; $40 paperback) This anthology grows out of […] READ MORE
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Japanese American becomes majority owner of LGBTQ newspaper
January 4, 2018 by Nichi Bei News
Michael Yamashita, 51, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, a San Francisco-based LGBTQ newspaper, became the newspaper’s majority owner, the publication announced Dec. 21, 2017. According to the B.A.R., Yamashita […] READ MORE
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ENTERTAINMENT RE-ORIENTED: #Thiswas2016
January 1, 2017 by Nichi Bei News
“When the house is going up in flames, does what’s on the TV matter?” That’s the question I kept asking myself as I sat down to write this year-end column. […] READ MORE
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