User:Myffical/Steve Lew

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{{Infobox person

| name = Steve Lew

| birth_place = Watsonville, California

| nationality = United States

| known_for = LGBT and AIDS activism

}}

Steve Lew (born 1958 in Watsonville, California) is a Asian-American community organizer, LGBT rights activist and AIDS activist.

= Biography =

In 1987, Lew was an organizer for the first west coast conference for Asian Pacific Lesbian and Gays. Lew also co-founded the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community HIV Project in San Francisco. The organization grew into a national service organization, was renamed the Living Well project, and eventually merged with the Asian AIDS project to become the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center in 1997.{{Cite book|title = The Making of a Gay Asian Community|last = Wat|first = Eric C.|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|year = 2002|isbn = 0-7425-1110-3|location = Lanham, Maryland, United States|pages = 204}}

In 1995, Lew was appointed as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.{{Cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/archives/whitehouse-papers/1995/Jun/1995-06-15-President-Names-23-to-HIV-AIDS-Advisory-Council|title = The White House Office of the Press Secretary|date = June 15, 1995|accessdate = October 19, 2014|website = President Clinton Signs Executive Order for Creation of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Announces Twenty-Three Memberse of the Council|publisher = |last = |first = }}{{Cite news|url = http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/16/us/clinton-creates-group-to-improve-campaign-against-aids.html|title = Clinton Creates Group to Improve Campaign Against AIDS|last = Dunlap|first = David W.|date = June 16, 1995|work = |accessdate = October 19, 2014}}

Lew is a currently Senior Project Director for CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in Oakland, California.{{Cite web|url = http://www.compasspoint.org/board-and-staff/bio/712|title = Bio: Steve Lew|date = |accessdate = October 19, 2014|website = CompassPoint Non-profit Services|publisher = |last = |first = }}

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