Mr. Angel Abcede This is Me

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1. 1. Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame

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   Published on: 4/21/2006   Last Visited: 9/7/2007

   Angel Abcede Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame
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   Angel Abcede
   
   Inducted 2003
   
   To help prevent more AIDS deaths, he drew on experience as a dancer, choreographer, and columnist to form the Sex Police in 1990. Its shows have brought anti-AIDS messages to high school students throughout the Chicago area. He is now president of Asians and Friends Chicago.
   
   In 1990, Angel Abcede felt the impact after a large number of friends, fellow dancers, and associates had succumbed to AIDS. In working through his grief and frustration, he felt the need to do something to prevent more AIDS deaths.
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   Abcede recruited other dancers and brought the idea to fruition at the group's first performance in 1991. Since then, the Sex Police has brought the message of proper condom use, abstinence, and general safer-sex practice to more than 100,000 students in the Chicago area.
   
   Incorporated as The School Street Movement, the Sex Police received its first grant from the city Department of Public Health in 1992. That grant and others were directed specifically to the education of students primarily in communities of color, which were receiving too little attention concerning the HIV epidemic. Tirelessly battling and reassuring school administrators and parents, Abcede filled a niche in bringing life-saving information to students on the South and West sides of the city as well as in more affluent suburbs.
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   Besides organizing the Sex Police, Abcede was also a columnist for Gay Chicago Magazine from 1994 to 1998. His column "Buddy Angel," provided a window into the life and experiences of a gay Filipino man, as well for a mirror for many gay Asian men in Chicago.
   
   Abcede has also mounted a one-man musical show, The Semen Tree, which he has performed in New York and Chicago and which delves more deeply into the gay Asian American experience. He has been a member of Chicago's Joel Hall Dancers for 17 years and has choreographed for the annual Dance Chicago festival. In one of his latest volunteer activities, he serves a secretary of Asians and Friends Chicago.
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2. 2. Philippine News Online: Chicago’s gay Asians show heart

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   Published on: 6/5/2006   Last Visited: 7/14/2006

   "As members and supporters of Asians and Friends Chicago, we understand that we are all part of a global community," said Angel Abcede, AFC president.

3. 3. News Article : Out in Oklahoma City

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   Published on: 8/3/2004   Last Visited: 9/16/2005

   "As members and supporters of Asians and Friends Chicago, we understand that we are all part of a global community," said Angel Abcede, president of AFC.