AAPI Heritage Month 2023

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Across
  1. 2. President that signed AAPI Heritage Month into law
  2. 3. Labor strike that united Filipino and Mexican American workers
  3. 6. First AAPI queer community event ever, hosted in 1983
  4. 7. First Asian American woman elected to Congress
  5. 9. Supreme Court case that outlawed AAPI people from speaking in court
  6. 11. First queer AAPI organization in the US
  7. 13. ___ Station Bar was a queer bar in San Francisco with huge controversy due to anti-AAPI racism
  8. 14. Act in 1875 that prohibited AAPI women from immigrating because they were "a sexual threat"
  9. 15. Massive film industry centered in India
  10. 17. Chinese ___ Act prohibited AAPI immigrants from the US
  11. 20. Origin country to first AAPI migrants to the Americas who arrived with the Spanish
  12. 21. Month that AAPI Heritage Month resides during
  13. 24. ___ Springs Massacre that resulted zero arrests of white assailants
  14. 25. Center of civil rights protest after Vincent Chin's murder
  15. 28. Anti-___ Papers were a group of petitions signed by native Hawaii against US control
  16. 29. Country with the most gender-affirming surgeries per year
  17. 30. State with the largest percentage (37.2%) of AAPI residents
  18. 33. Recent disease blamed on AAPI people
  19. 35. Type of hatred that spiked after 9/11 and targeted AAPI and anyone perceived as Muslim
Down
  1. 1. ___ Railroad that was nearly built entirely by AAPI workers
  2. 4. Most recent AAPI animated Disney film ___ Red
  3. 5. Asian Pacific ___ were the first queer group to collab with the traditional AAPI community during Chinese New Year 1994
  4. 8. First AAPI Vice President
  5. 10. Asian Exclusion ___ formally existed from 1905-68 and carried out anti-AAPI hate crimes along the West Coast
  6. 12. String of shootings that established the StopAAPIHate movement
  7. 13. ___ Trade that existed alongside the Slave Trade to use indentured AAPI labor
  8. 16. Most spoken AAPI language
  9. 18. ___'s Cafeteria was the location of the 1966 queer riots in San Francisco's Tenderloin AAPI district
  10. 19. First Asian American elected to Congress
  11. 22. President that established Japanese concentration camps during WWII that forcibly incarcerated over 120,000 citizens
  12. 23. Chinese American who fought for his birthright citizenship due to Chinese exclusion laws
  13. 26. Japanese graphic novels with a wide American audience
  14. 27. State with smallest percentage (0.8%) of AAPI residents
  15. 28. Immigration station intentionally built to deny AAPI immigrants
  16. 31. Most populated country
  17. 32. Disease blamed on AAPI San Francisco residents, and were forcibly quarantined with barbed wire
  18. 34. Popular music originating from South Korea