Huang P; National HIV Prevention Conference (2003 : Atlanta, Ga.).
Abstr Book 2003 Natl HIV Prev Conf July 27 30 2003 Hyatt Regency Atlanta Hotel Atlanta Ga Natl HIV Prev Conf 2003 Atlanta Ga. 2003; abstract no. M1-C1901.
Asian Health Services, Oakland, CA
ISSUE: How can you collect behavioral risk data, educate, organize and entertain hundreds of gay men at once? How do you deal with a gay community jaded by ASO-events?SETTING: The Annual East Bay Gay Asian Men's Film Festival PROJECT: After years of throwing unsuccessful events in local gay bars and clubs, our gay Asian men's prevention project decided to take a new approach in appealing to gay men, a population that has seen virtually every trick up an ASO's sleeve for trying to draw them to an event. If a large segment of the gay population is tired of, intimidated by, and looking for an alternative to the bar and club scene, why not build an event around another social activity than drinking and cruising? Now in our 4th year, the annual East Bay Gay Asian Men's Film Fest in Berkeley, CA, has brought together hundreds of gay men and women for local and foreign films by, for and about gay Asian men. Externally, the event is about enterntainment and community-organizing through the arts, but we have also used the opportunity to collect hundreds of behavioral-risk surveys from the participants (who were happy to cooperate for a free movie). In this workshop, we will lay out the theoretical framework behind this intervention, the step-by-step logistics and required-resources of putting on a filmfest, and findings from the surveys.RESULTS: The event is now self-propagating with past participatns recruiting friends to attend, and the momentum of the festival has allowed us to attempt to launch a regular gorup-level intervention. In addition, the survey data has been invaluable in planning our strategies, and with this past festival, we are returning the data back to the community from whom it was collected.LESSONS LEARNED: We will also discuss the politics of including white men in the definition of "gay Asian" community; the pitfalls of using prevention as a platform for minority nationalism; and why we believe the question of race is both more complex, and more simplistic, than the prevention field has allowed it to be.
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Keywords:
- Asian Continental Ancestry Group
- European Continental Ancestry Group
- Female
- Holidays
- Homosexuality
- Homosexuality, Male
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Biological
- Teaching
- Time
Other ID:
UI: 102261623
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