API LGBTQ Family Acceptance Workshop

API LGBTQ Family Acceptance Workshop Join us for a workshop to hear Asian American and Pacific Islander parents share their experiences of confusion, fear, love, acceptance, and celebration of their LGBTQ children. We especially welcome parents of LGBTQ kids, LGBTQ people who want to come out, and those who are struggling with family acceptance. Speakers

Laurin, mixed-race Japanese Marsha, Japanese mother of a Noralynn, with strong Samoan mother of a gay son and transgender son and author of lineages through her Su'afaiga, author of One of a Kind, Like Two Spirits, One Heart, a Mulipola, Auau, Lutu, Reed, and Me, a children’s book that memoir of her life with a Scanlan families, supports her mixed-race gay son and his uplifts those who don’t fit daughter who came out as choreography, as a finalist on So gender stereotypes and lesbian and eventually realized You Think You Can Dance, touring respects the power of a loving his gender identity has always with Lady Gaga, winning a and supportive community been male Po'okela for choreographing Diamond Head Theatre's Mamma Mia, and more Event Details Learn More April 20, 2017 Watch commercials of Asian parents who love their LGBTQ children and 6:00-8:30 p.m. read translated leaflets that answer basic questions about being LGBTQ and that dispel common misperceptions: http://familyisstillfamily.org/. LGBT Center Waikiki 310 Paoakalani Ave Suite 206E This event is FREE, but you can donate to Honolulu, HI 96815 support this work: bit.ly/supportfamilyacceptance.