Alice Y. Hom

{{Short description|Asian American LGBTQ community activist and author}}

Alice Y. Hom (born 1967) is an Asian American 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.{{Cite web|title = Alice Y. Hom {{!}} AAPIP|url = http://aapip.org/alice-y-hom|website = aapip.org|access-date = 2015-05-30}} Her dissertation was titled “Unifying Differences: Lesbian of Color Community Building in Los Angeles & New York, 1970s-1980s”.{{Cite web|title = BUTCH Voices 2011 Keynotes {{!}} BUTCH Voices|url = http://www.butchvoices.com/conference/keynotes|website = www.butchvoices.com| date=26 July 2011 |access-date = 2015-05-30}}

Activism and career

Hom has been the Director of Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy's Queer Justice Fund since 2010.{{Cite web|title = Alice Y Hom {{!}} LinkedIn|url = https://www.linkedin.com/pub/alice-y-hom/2/271/426|website = www.linkedin.com|access-date = 2015-05-30}} She now is the Director of Equity and Social Justice for The Northern California GrantMakers.{{Cite web |date=2018-11-08 |title=Announcing Alice Y. Hom, Director of Equity and Social Justice |url=https://ncg.org/news/announcing-alice-y-hom-director-equity-and-social-justice |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=Northern California Grantmakers |language=en}} She also is a host the Historically Queer Podcast.{{Cite web |title=Alice (@aliceyhom) |url=https://twitter.com/aliceyhom/ |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=Twitter |language=en}} She was previously founding Director of the Intercultural Community Center at Occidental College, 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.{{Cite web |title = David L. Eng, Alice Y. Hom: Q & A|url = http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1390_reg.html |website = www.temple.edu |access-date = 2015-05-30}}

In 2013, Governor Jerry Brown reappointed Hom to another term on the Cal Humanities Board, where she has served since 2012.{{cite web|title=Governor Brown Announces Appointments|url=https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18139|website=Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.|access-date=2015-09-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905163901/http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18139|archive-date=2015-09-05|url-status=dead}}

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

{{cite book|url=http://tupress.temple.edu/book/3454|title=Q&A: Queer in Asian America|editor-first1=Alice Y.|editor-last1=Hom|editor-first2=David L.|editor-last2=Eng|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Temple University Press|date=1998}}
[http://gradworks.umi.com/34/66/3466739.html Unifying Differences: Lesbian of Color Community Building in Los Angeles & New York, 1970s-1980s] [http://gradworks.umi.com/34/66/3466739.html (Claremont Graduate University: 2011)]{{Cite web |title=Unifying Differences: Lesbian of Color Community Building In Los Angeles and New York, 1970s-1980s |url=https://www.bookdepository.com/Unifying-Differences-Lesbian-Color-Community-Building-Los-Angeles-New-York-Alice-Y-Hom/9781249859628 |date = 2011 |first = Alice Y. |last = Hom}}

Personal life

Hom was born and raised in the Los Angeles, California area. She now resides in the Bay Area of California.