Queer and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander (QTAPI) Week
May 24, 2025 through June 1, 2025
What is QTAPI Week?
First held between May 22-29, of 2021, Queer and Trans Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Week was proclaimed in San Francisco by the Board of Supervisors during a time of increasing anti-Asian hate in the SF Bay Area. The week serves as a metaphorical bridge between API Heritage month in May and Pride Month in June, showing that our identities are interconnected, and can have compounding impacts. The first week consisted of a series of events, both in-person and online, organized through participating organizations in the Bay Area QTAPI Coalition.
Press Mentions & Recognitions
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2024: QTAPI DC Coalition forms and starts their own QTAPI Week!
2023: Fresh Off the Block Party Sponsored by OEWD in the Castro
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San Diego:
San Francisco:
Easy Bay:
South Bay:
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Bold Italic Covered us!
Bay Area Reporter featured us!
Out Traveler even wrote about us!
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QTAPI Week is Intergenerational.
We center our QTAPI movement in honoring the legacy of activism of our elders and inspiring the next generation of leaders in our youth.
QTAPI Folks have always been here.
Our love and our identities have always existed, throughout time.
Visibility and Representation Matters.
We continue to uplift all members of our coalition of Queer and Transgender Asians and Pacific Islanders. We know our shared liberation is only possible by uplifting the issues that affect the most marginalized among us. We are bound together through our common cultural identity, the way we show up in the world, and how we love.
Talent Call! Perform on the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBT Pride Stage 2025!
San Francisco Community Health Center is proud to present the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBT Pride Stage 2025! Since 2000, the A&PI LGBT Pride Stage has been one of the most anticipated entertainment venues at SF Pride Festival.
This year, the theme is “Queer Joy is Resistance”.
We are inviting talented up-and-coming A&PI LGBT and non- LGBT artists to grace the A&PI LGBT Pride Stage and perform for the estimated 1 million attendees coming to this celebration. Musicians, vocalists, dance groups, deejays and other entertainers are encouraged to apply.
The Asian & Pacific Islander LGBT Pride Stage 2025 will be held on Sunday, June 29, 2025, in San Francisco (Golden Gate and Polk Streets) 12:00pm- 6:00pm.
The Asian & Pacific Islander Pride Community Stage has showcased A&PI celebrities like Margaret Cho, CoCo Lee, Jenn Cuneta, Jocelyn Enriquez and American Idol’s Jasmine Trias, Ongina and many more! Be part of this much-celebrated tradition!
Submission Guidelines:
To submit/ e-mail a brief biography/resume, video and/or audio links, website/Facebook or other applicable online supplementary material to titaaida@sfcommunityhealth.org
Email Subject line: Artists Submission/ A&PI PRIDE Stage 2025 – Artist’s Name
Deadline: May 28, 2025.
For more information: contact Tita Aida, titaaida@sfcommunityhealth.org
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