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Title: George Choy papers
Dates: 1978-1992
Collection Number: 1994-35
Creator/Collector:
Choy, George
Extent: 0.85 linear feet
Repository:
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Abstract: The George Choy papers document his work with the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) and the GAPA Community Health Project
(GCHP), as well as the relationship between GAPA and OCCUR, the first Japanese gay rights organization.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
George Choy papers. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society
Gift of Prescott Chow, via Daniel Bao, in 1995.
Biography/Administrative History
George Choy (1960-1993) was a board member of Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA), a member of ACT UP and an activist for AIDS
awareness and LGBT youth who persuaded the SF Board of Supervisors to pass Project 10, the counseling program for LGBT teenagers
in public high schools. He was also active in GCHP (GAPA Community Health Project) and worked with OCCUR (the Japanese Association
for the Lesbian and Gay Movement, the first Japanese Gay Rights organization). In In 1991, OCCUR brought the first gay rights
case to court in Japan.
Scope and Content of Collection
The George Choy papers document his work with the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) and the GAPA Community Health Project
(GCHP), as well as the relationship between GAPA and OCCUR, the first Japanese gay rights organization, through organizational
records, correspondence, speeches, news clippings, brochures and photos. The collection also documents the relationship between
Choy and some of OCCUR’s members, including Hiroshi Niimi. It includes some personalia and photographs of family and friends.
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project
Asian/Pacific Lesbians and Gays
Gay rights--Japan.