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		<title>Kayva Yang named Program Officer at PFund Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (June 1, 2011) – PFund Foundation, the only Minnesota foundation dedicated exclusively to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, today announced the hiring of Kayva Yang as the foundation’s new program officer. Yang will join staff effective July 1 and will manage PFund’s grantmaking, scholarship and capacity building programs. PFund received nearly 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Amendment is a sad day in Minnesota</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Paul, Minn. (May 21, 2011) – Regarding the passage of SF 1308, a bill that would place the issue of writing into the State’s constitution that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, on the ballot for popular vote, I cannot imagine a more unfortunate day in Minnesota’s recent history, then what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xay Yang receives leadership scholarship</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 07:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (May 18, 2011) – PFund, a Minnesota foundation dedicated exclusively to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, today announced it has awarded Xay Yang with a $5,000 scholarship. Xay was selected based on leadership, activism and community involvement. &#8220;Xay is an impressive student leader,&#8221; said Kate Eubank, executive director, PFund. &#8220;As an out, proud LGBT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APIA groups challenge ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Francisco (April 5, 2011) – Members of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a district court’s decision that struck down the DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) policy, which discriminates against openly lesbian, gay and bisexual members of the U.S. military. Leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOY embarks on ambitious QSEA Census</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For everyone who is, has family, friends, colleagues and community members or works with the Southeast Asian Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer Community, take a moment to reflect on the need to participate in the QSEA Census. In the New Year of 2011, Shades of Yellow, the Southeast Asian GLBTQ organization in Minnesota, aims to create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anna Min joins the PFund board</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS (December 1, 2010) – PFund Foundation, the only Minnesota foundation dedicated exclusively to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, last week announced four new board members. Stephen Bubul, Kris Maritz, Anna Min and Dawn LaDassor will serve three-year terms. “Stephen, Kris, Anna and Dawn are community leaders committed to advancing equality and social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oskar Ly takes over as SOY Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shades Of Yellow (SOY), the first Hmong organization for LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) began a new chapter last month as Oskar Ly agreed to step in as Interim Executive Director during a transition and search period for a new lead staff member. The move comes after Kevin Xiong, founding executive director of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Q &amp; A with the one-and-only Margaret Cho</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By TOM LAVENTURE AAP staff writer Margaret Cho brings a different kind of comedy tour when her “Cho Dependent” Tour comes to State Theater in Minneapolis on October 15. The tour is inspired by Cho’s new CD release “Cho Dependent”, and said to be hilarious stand up comedy, mixed with live performances songs. www.margaretcho.com/content/tour. Ms. Cho [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National LGBT Conference in Minneapolis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (September 7, 2010) – The 23rd National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change is coming to Minneapolis on Feb. 2–6, 2011. Creating Change, as it is commonly called, is the premier annual organizing and skills-building event for the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and its allies. The conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queer Southeast Asian Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participant Pada Lo (right) and Shades of Yellow Board Chair Pheng Thao (left) posing for the camera at the opening dinner July 9, 2010 at Pagoda Dinkytown. MINNEAPOLIS (July 9, 2010) – The first ever National Queer Southeast Asian Conference took place at the Radisson University Hotel in Minneapolis last weekend. The conference was hosted by Shades [...]]]></description>
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