23 at Friendship Auditorium in Los Angeles.

I was at that 94 convention.reunited to discuss the impact — then and now — of the organizations 1994 decision to support same-sex marriage.

You cant just take a position and let it happen.I learned from my experiences in community organizing through the JACL.If we as an organization didnt take this step.

It was gutting the national staff.When the board took a position.

The deciding moment came when a former San Jose Chapter president.

To see these folks among us for the first time in their lives be validated by a community outside of their own LGBT community.He served as an assistant attorney general for the state civil rights division from 1957 to 1962 and was a member of the Seattle City Council from 1962 until his death in a plane crash.

two in Santa Ana and one in Westminster were hit with spray paint.“We know a targeted incident like this will have lasting psychological scars on AAPI communities that since the pandemic have experienced an increase in hate crimes.

but the trauma and emotional impact on the staff and community members cant be measured.which “speaks to a history that wasn’t that long ago.