1990
� President Bush declares May as Asian Pacific American Month.

� Godzilla: Asian American Arts network is founded to establish a forum that will foster information exchange, mutual support, documentation, and networking among Asian and Pacific Islander visual artists and arts professionals. Godzilla writes letter to the Whitney Museum protesting the exclusion of Asian American artists from the Whitney Museum Biennial.

� Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA) forms to provide HIV/AIDS-specific services for Asians and Pacific Islanders.

� The Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival returns after a two-year absence to Union Square Park. Over 41 organizations participate in the 11th Annual Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival.

1991
� First workshops of the Asian American Writers Workshop convene with six writers meeting at a Greek diner in the East Village. The group meets steadily on a biweekly basis. A core group of ten is quickly achieved meeting at a space donated by CAAAV and the Asian American Arts Alliance.

� The South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) is started as a meeting ground for gays and lesbians of South Asian descent.

� Kambal Sa Lusog, Filipinas Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals for Progress is formed to meet for mutual support and group mobilization.

� Demonstrations are held protesting the Broadway production of Miss Saigon and its Western misrepresentations of Asians.

1992
� Asian Professional Extension, Inc. (APEX) is founded to meet the needs of socially and economically disadvantaged youths by matching volunteers with underprivileged Asian American youth.

� New York Chinese History Project becomes Chinatown History Museum.

� Asian Americans in New York City commemorate the 10th anniversary of Vincent Chin's death.

� Filipino American Human Services, Inc. is established to meet the human services needs of the Filipino American Community.

� Over 53 organizations participate in the 13th Annual Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival at Damrosch Park.

1993
� Asian American Studies program at Hunter College starts with the hiring of a director.

� New World Order III: The Curio Shop. First Godzilla installation opens at Artists Space with 48 artists.

� Golden Venture freighter runs a ground in Far Rockaway, Queens; AALDEF represents Chinese immigrants who receive political asylum.

� Center for Korean American Culture hosts arts and culture festival on Sa-I-Gu (April 29th) to address the anti-immigrant backlash of California's Proposition 181. Members of Arkipelago, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence and Godzilla, collaborate to create a mural U.S.: Immigrants Built This Country .

� Arkipelago is founded to promote community and awareness through Filipino and Filipino American arts.

� Society of Taiwanese Americans (SOTA) is formed by a group of graduating college students who felt the need for an organization to address issues faced by Taiwanese Americans.

� Over 67 organizations participate in the 14th Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival celebrating Asian Pacific American Literature at Union Square Park.

1994
� The Coalition of Asian Pacific American Associations changes its name to the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans to reflect the growth of the organization, which is currently comprised of individuals and representatives of Asian Pacific American organizations.

� Mayor Rudolph Giuliani eliminates the Mayor's Office of Asian, African, Latino and European American Affairs.

� Asian/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art opens at the Asia Society. It is the first exhibition of Asian American art to be given mainstream exposure at the East/South Asian-centered institution.

� A. Magazine increases its frequency from a quarterly to a bimonthly schedule.

� Spearheaded by the InterAsian Council, several Asian American students at NYU began a collaborative effort to have the university address issues facing Asian/Pacific Americans, both through academic programs and student affairs.

� After a seven-month lockout, Silver Palace workers with the help of Chinese Staff and Workers Association win reinstatement and a fair contract as well as drawing attention to the slave-labor system that exists in Chinatown.

� Over 70 organizations participate in the 15th Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival celebrating Asian Pacific Americans in Cinema at Union Square Park.

1995
� The Asian American Writers Workshop opens the Asian American Bookseller at 37 St. Mark s Place.

� On March 24, 15-year-old Yong Xin Huang is murdered by the police in Brooklyn. CAAAV organizes community support for family, a petition campaign, a demonstration in front of the Brooklyn D.A. s office protesting failure to indict police murderer, and Yong Xin s 16th birthday memorial in Chinatown on 7/16/95.

� Chinatown History Museum becomes Museum of Chinese in the Americas. The museum reclaims, preserves and shares Chinese American history and culture with a broad audience. The immediate focus is the New York region while the broader concern is the experience of Chinese people throughout the Americas.

� Peeling the Banana is founded as an Asian American arts collective that utilizes autobiography as a departure point for performance, community-building, and political expression.

� New York Republican Al D'Amoto is under attack for his blatant racial depiction of Judge Lance Ito during a live national morning radio show with Don Imus. He offers a two-sentence apology the following day and this prompts national outrage as the Senator comes under attack by various Asian American organizations.

� Chinese Staff and Workers Association leads a boycott of Jing Fong restaurant to protest the unfair working conditions.

1996
� Fly to Freedom: The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees opens at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Exhibition of folk-art pieces created by the Chinese survivors of the Golden Venture, which ran aground in New York Harbor in 1993. Artwork is auctioned to raise money for the incarcerated detainees' legal services.

� NYU establishes the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute in an office space designed by Maya Lin.

� The First Annual Korean American Film Festival by the Center for Korean American Culture is held at the New School for Social Research.

� First Annual Dinner Benefit for David Wong at Silver Palace Restaurant. The David Wong Support Committee seeks to secure a fair trial to free David from serving a sentence for a crime that he did not commit.

1997
� The South Asian Women's Creative Collective holds its first public event, Wild Tongues, A Women of Color festival at Lafayette Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn.

� Workers Awaaz (formerly the Domestic Workers Committee at Sakhi) is established to help organize South Asian domestic workers who have been largely ignored by the mainstream South asian community, and by the battered women s and labor movements.

� Asian CineVision commemorates the 20th Asian American International Film Festival with a four-week, three-borough, Celebration of Asian/Asian American Cinema, Now & Then, July 18-August 10.

� Sangram Sounds starts Basement Bhangra a South Asian party held on the first Thursday of every month at SOB's.

� Immigrant Chinese restaurant workers in Chan v. Jing Fong wins $1.1 million settlement in two suits for back wages and tips filed by AALDEF and the New York State Attorney General

� In Syracuse, Asian/American students denied service and beaten up outside by white customers at a Denny's restaurant. AALDEF files civil rights action against Denny s restaurant, Lizardo v. Denny's.

� Over 91 organizations participate in the 18th Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival Celebrating Rituals & Traditions at Union Square Park.

1998
� South Asian Youth Action! and Peeling the Banana present 11373-Elmhurst, N.Y. This benefit performance is the culmination of a 6-week collaborative process in which skits were created based on stories from the youth.

� The NY Day of Remembrance Committee presents Testimony: Japanese American Voices of Liberation, an event that brings to the life the stories of Japanese Americans interned during World War II and their descendants.

� The First Annual Asian American Literary Awards presented by The Asian American Writers Workshop to Mei-mei Bersenbrugge for Best Poetry, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka for Best Fiction.

� Second Generations Productions presents Making Tracks, a new rock musical that celebrates Asian American experiences.

� Asian American Arts Alliance celebrates its 15th Anniversary.

� Over 79 organizations participate in the 19th Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival history, legacy & pride at Union Square Park.

1999
� Asian Americans for Equality celebrates their 25th Anniversary. It's continuing mission, to protect and promote the rights of Asian Americans, other people of color, and all those in need, through advocacy for and access to resources in the areas of civil rights, affordable housing, economic development, and social services.

� AALDEF celebrates its 25th Anniversary.

� A. Magazine celebrates its 10th Anniversary.

� The Coalition of Asian/Pacific Americans celebrates its 20th Annual Asian Pacific/American Heritage Festival. Over 100 organizations participate at Union Square Park.

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