Alice Y. Hom (born 1967) is an
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous people ...
LGBTQ community activist and author.
Education
Hom received her B.A from
Yale, her M.A. in
Asian American Studies from
UCLA, and her Ph.D. in history from
Claremont Graduate University
The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna Co ...
.
Her dissertation was titled “Unifying Differences: Lesbian of Color Community Building in Los Angeles & New York, 1970s-1980s”.
Activism and career
Hom has been the Director of Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy's Queer Justice Fund since 2010.
She now is the Director of Equity and Social Justice for The Northern California GrantMakers. She also is a host the Historically Queer Podcast.
She was previously founding Director of the Intercultural Community Center at
Occidental College
Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...
, worked at the
Getty Information Institute and
Getty Research Institute. Hom has also served on the boards of the
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice,
Visual Communications, Great Leap, June Mazer Lesbian Archives, and APAIT.
Hom was an editor on Q&A: Queer in Asian America, an award-winning anthology of essays, personal accounts, fiction, and art on the meaning of being LGBTQ in Asian American communities.
In 2013, Governor Jerry Brown reappointed Hom to another term on the Cal Humanities Board, where she has served since 2012.
Honors and awards
* 1998:
Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Lesbian and Gay Anthologies/Non-Fiction
* 1999: Honorable Mention for
Outstanding Books Awards,
Gustavus Myers Center for Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
* 2001: Book Award from
Association for Asian American Studies
Published works
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Unifying Differences: Lesbian of Color Community Building in Los Angeles & New York, 1970s-1980sref>
Personal life
Hom was born and raised in the
Los Angeles, California area.
She now resides in the Bay Area of California.
References
Further reading
AAPIP
1967 births
Living people
American LGBT people of Asian descent
American LGBT rights activists
People from Greater Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Yale University alumni
Claremont Graduate University alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
American lesbian writers
Writers from California
Activists from California
21st-century American LGBT people
21st-century American women writers
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