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HOTLINES

• Confidential SF Bay Area API Helpline for support, resources for API individuals and families in the coming out process. (510) 818-0887.

• Gay and Lesbian National Hotline 1-888-THE-GLNH (1-888-843-4564)
  Monday – Friday 4pm-midnight & Saturday noon-5pm EST.
  Peer-counseling, information and referrals

• Suicide Hotline. You are not alone! If you (or someone you know) are having thoughts about suicide, call 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433). Because of the horrific pressures they often face, gay teens are 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. Gay men are six times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR API YOUTH

• Queer API Scholarship for Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Youth living the San Francisco Bay Area – Pride Scholarship Application. 

• GAPA’s George Choy Scholarship application can be downloaded from:
  http://www.gapa.org/Scholarship. In the past there have been two $1000 scholarships given.

• Tang Scholarship for glbt apis. The application can be found here: http://www.sbqa.com/TangScholarshipApplication2009.pdf

THEOLOGICAL RESOURCES

Chai, Alice Yun. “The Struggle of Asian and Asian American Women Toward a Total Liberation: A Korean Methodist Woman’s Vocational Journey.” In Spirituality and Social Responsibility: Vocational Vision of Women in the United Methodist Tradition, ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller. Nashville: Abingdon, 1993.

Kim, Ai Ra. Women Struggling for a New Life: The Role of Religion in the Cultural Passage from Korea to America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Kim, Jung Ha. Bridge-Makers and Cross-Bearers: Korean American Women and the Church. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1997.

Lee, Jung Young. Marginality: The Key to Multicultural Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.

Lewis, Nantawan Boonprasat. “Reclaiming Liberative Trends: Owning Asian American Women’s History of Struggle.” In Revolution of Spirit, ed. Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1998.

Mapping a Pan-Pacific Feminist Theology.” Special Issue of Journal of Women and Religion 13 (1995). Center for Women and Religion, Berkeley, CA.

Matsuoka, Fumitaka. Out of Silence: Emerging Themes in Asian American Churches. Cleveland, Ohio: United Church Press, 1995.

Nakashima Brock, Rita. “Interstitial Integrity: Reflections toward an Asian American Woman’s Theology.” In Introduction to Christian Theology, ed. Roger Badham, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1998.

Nakashima Brock, Rita and Naomi Southard. “The Other Half of the Basket: Asian American Women and the Search for a Theological Home.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 1987): 135-150.

Ng, David, ed. People on the Way: Asian North Americans Discovering Christ, Culture, and Community. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1996.

Russell, Letty, Kwok Pui-Lan, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, and Katie Geneva Cannon, eds. Inheriting Our Mother’s Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective. Louisville: Westminster, 1988.

Sung Park, Andrew. Racial Conflict and Healing: An Asian American Theological Perspective. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1996.