Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Gender, Sex and Health

specializing in HIV/AIDS education, and support in the East and Southeast Asian communities in Ontario, proposes to organize a one and a half day sexual health symposium, Sex, Love, Asian Men (S.L.A.M!). Based on a successful 2009 pilot project that ACAS implemented, the symposium objectives are to: 1. Promote the uptake and exchange of information between local, national and international experts in Asian men's sexual health and the Asian men's community in Ontario; 2. Identify where ACAS program development or expansion may serve to address gaps in knowledge and meet identified needs of Asian men; and 3. Facilitate the development of potential research partnerships through a de-briefing and brainstorming session post-S.L.A.M! Seventy-five Asian men from diverse age groups, professions, geographic location in Ontario, abilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, and HIV status would be invited to participate in the symposium. The event will start with an evening of public plenary presentations of service providers, community leaders, and researchers from local, national, and international groups/organizations, to discuss Asian men's sexual health. On the second day, 9 panel discussion/interactive workshops of a wide range of sexual health issues would concurrently be facilitated at the Symposium. After the symposium, we will organize a de-briefing and brainstorming session of researchers, community leaders, and service providers to discuss new knowledge articulated from the symposium and potential research collaboration pertaining to sexual health in Asian men. Significant outcomes of S.L.A.M! 2011 will include the development of research partnerships, increased relevance of programs and services of our organization as well as those of our partner organizations and, most importantly, better sexual health for Asian men in Ontario.