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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Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact special.collections@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Appraisal
Two 3.5 inch floppy disks were discarded after imagining process determined there was no data present.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
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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.
Revisions to this Guide
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15th Anniversary Banquet, 2005
15th Anniversary Film, 2008
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1998 Beyond 2000 Sexual Health Survey, 1999
1999 Winter Ball, 1999
A Magazine, 2000
"American Identity" Program, 1995
amFAR AIDS Research Annual Report, 1998-1999, inclusive
Asian LGBT+ Movements Global Summit Programs, 2019
Asian Pride Project, 2014
The Audra Lorde Project, 2000 May 4
B2K, 1998-1999, inclusive
Banner, circa 1994-2014
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Brix, 1998
Brochures and Flyers, circa 1998-2014
Brooklyn Pride, 1998
Business Cards, undated
Business Cards, circa 1990s-2000s, inclusive
Bylaws, 1994 November
Certificate of Recognition (City of New York), 2018
"Coming Out, Coming Home" Campaign, undated
"Community Voices: The Next Gender Asian" Program, 2013
Dari Project, 2013
DC Connections, 1999
Details Magazine "Gay or Asian?" Response, 2004 April
DowneTime Postcards, circa 2007-2013
Dragun, 1999
DynasTea Dance and Fundraiser, 1999-2006, inclusive
Financial Summaries, 1998-1999, inclusive
GAPIMNY News, 1999-2000, inclusive
GAPIMNY Newsletter, 1995-1999, inclusive
GAPIMNY Newsletter Page Proofs, 1999-2000, inclusive
GAPIMNY Retreat, 1999
Gay City News, 2000 May 9
General Information Flyer About GAPIMNY, 2014
General Information Pamphlets About GAPIMNY, undated
Green Tea Dance Party, 2000-2001, inclusive
History of GAPIMNY, 2018
"Hong Kong Ex-Gay" Campaign Leaflets, undated
"Honoring Our Heroes": Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, 2001 May 6
HX, 1998-2006, inclusive
"(In)Visibly American" Campaign, 2009
Lavendar Godzilla (Gay Asian Pacific Alliance), 2001
Lesbian and Gay New York, 2000-2002, inclusive
"Love Goes with Any Gender" Campaign, circa 2000-2005
"Love Has No Borders" Campaign, circa 2000-2005
Lunar New Year and Pride Parade: Banner, circa 1998-2014
Lunar New Year and Pride Parade: Horse Costume, 2014
Media Kits, 2000
Membership and Support Flyers, 2013-2014, inclusive
Metrosource New York, 2000
Mochi Balls, 2001
Mug with GAPIMNY Logo, circa 1998-2014
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), 2009-2014, inclusive
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA): National Conference Video Highlights, 2009
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New York Blade News, 2000-2002, inclusive
Newspaper Clippings, 1996-2002, inclusive
Next, 1998-2006, inclusive
PersuAsian Newsmagazine, 2000-2007, inclusive
Photograph Albums, circa 1998-2014
Planning Notes, 2013
Postcards, circa 2013
POZ, 2000 July
"Reflections" 10th Anniversary Banquet, 2000
Rice Conference Materials, 1994
Rice Paper (Gay Asian Community Health Empowerment Project [GACHEP]), 2000
"The Rising Voice of Asian America": Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, 2000 May
"Springderella" Banquet, 2002
Starfruit Zine, 2019
Steering Committee, 1996-2006, inclusive
Steering Committee, 2018-2020, inclusive
Stickers, circa 2000-2014
Ten (Asian American Writers' Workshop), 1999
Time Out New York, 1998, 2000
"Tongzhi/Comrade: Out in Asia America": Installation at Museum of Chinese in America, 2000
Trivia Leaflet, circa 2012
Archived Websites
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Scope and Contents
The GAPIMNY website is made up news and press releases, event listings, their platform and values, steering committee members, and their programming, including a leadership development program, their biweekly happy hour (Elixer), meetings and workshops, and political engagement organizing around immigration, racism, homophobia, and transgender exclusion. Events and programming are mostly focused around topics such as trans allyship, coming-out, local politics, and raising the visibility of issues regarding queer and trans Asian and Pacific Islanders. Also captured is GAPIMNY's blog, the Gaysian Diaries, which exists to create an online space for queer and trans Asian and Pacific Islanders to share their experiences.
Accruals
New site crawls are accrued semiannually.
Appraisal
Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of gaysiandiaries.com and gapimny.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/13239/*/http://gapimny.org/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/13239/*/https://gaysiandiaries.com/
