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	A New Monthly Column on Sexual Diversity Issues for Asian Pacific Islander Americans Do a Little Pride, Make a Little Love By John Manzon-Santos June 6 was the fifth anniversary of the passing of a community activist named Haruko Kuroiwa Brown. A nisei born and raised in Seattle, Haruko was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans sent by the U.S. government to the “relocation camp” at Minidoka, Idaho during World War II. In 1945 she moved to New York, where she raised a family, and obtained her master’s degree in social work. Haruko volunteered her energies with the Japanese American Help for the Aging, as a board member with the Japanese American Citizens League, as president of Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, and as a powerful guest speaker on racism in U.S. history in a local alternative high school. COMPLETE STORY...		Mom and Pops Unite: Taking on a Dry-clean Giant in Fairfax (in National News) State Safety Net for Immigrants in Jeopardy (in Bay Area News) Were Those Bugle Boys You Were Wearing? (in Business) Fantastic Plastic Machine: Tanaka and His Beautiful Girl (in A&E)

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Emil Amok: The Selling of Asian Guys Here’s an image of the Asian American male for you. Gone are the black horn rims and the bowl haircut — all the standard issue stuff that has defied fashion and defined our stereotype for years. Instead, there are longish sideburns, and what looks to be a buzz-cut in its post-buzz, slightly overgrown stage. The frameless eyes are the same narrow almond-shape we know and love. Same as they ever were, but far from the slant or slit-like simplifications of the past. This is real, not caricature. It’s a photograph in an ad, after all. They had to have a model for our new “model minority” look. COMPLETE STORY...

Floss Talk: Life in the Passing Lane. Youth columnist Raymond Li finally did it. He graduated from high school! Letters to the Editor: Who Is Asian American Anyway?; The African American Struggle is Our Struggle.

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