so after immediately joining the gay and asian blogrings i have today decided to add the filipino and catholic blogrings and wonder ever so cautiously how all these young peeps will handle this convolution. . .but hey, my therapist today got pushy with me today so i am feeling a bit put-upon. . .ohwells. . .another day, another dollah. .
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PETER J. CORPUS
Peter Corpus is currently the Director of Development & Communications at Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) in Historic Filipinotown and in his career as a professional and volunteer nonprofit fundraiser has helped raise over $10M over the past 15 years for a variety of community-based organizations. Peter has held other Development Director positions at Wheels for Humanity, East West Players, Citrus Valley Health Foundation, International House of Blues Foundation, and St. John's Well Child Center. Before serving in those positions he was Special Events Manager for Project Angel Food.
Mr. Corpus has also been a Fund Development Consultant and provided services to clients such as the Amassi Center of South Central Los Angeles, Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team, Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture or FilAm ARTS, Chinatown Service Center, Filipino American Heritage Institute/The Filipino American Library, and Media Action Network for Asian Americans
Peter is a member of the Board of Directors and serves as the Chair of the Diversity Committee of Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals formerly the National Society of Fundraising Executives. He is also the founder of the Asian Pacific American Development Roundtable. Peter has been a volunteer fundraiser for the Asian American Alliance Against AIDS and is a co-founder of both the Gay Asian Pacific Support Network and Barangay - The Gay Filipino Association of Los Angeles.
Mr. Corpus helped create an annual, successful special event for the HIV Services Division of AltaMed Health Services Corporation in East Los Angeles called Una Noche de Esperanza (A Night of Hope) & The Mario Tamayo Leadership Awards. Prior to his foray into the world of community-based nonprofit fundraising, Peter worked with Gil Gerald & Associates on the United States Conference of Mayors Gay and Bisexual Men of Color HIV Prevention Needs Assessment ?a national study conducted in five cities: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Oklahoma City, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
He also spent eight years in the hotel industry as Chef Concierge at The New Otani Hotel & Garden in Little Tokyo and as Regency Club Concierge at the Hyatt Regency Los Angeles in Downtown Los Angeles. Peter served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Concierge Association and the California Concierge Council.
Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Corpus lived and worked in Yosemite National Park for five years. While there, he worked at all the concession hotel properties including The Ahwahnee, Yosemite Lodge, Curry Village, and Housekeeping Camp. His various positions included Assistant Manager of Cash Operations, Front Desk Manager, and he started out as a Rafting Attendant on the Merced River.
Peter was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and graduated from Kapiolani Community College with an Associate of Arts and the University of Hawaii with a B.A. in ethnic studies. Presently, he has lived in a historic Hollywood building for the last fifteen years and has been active with the Ivar Hill Community Association and the Hollywood Postal Customer Advisory Council.
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"You work out in a gay gym, you drink in gay bars, you shop in gay stores, eat in gay restaurants and surf the net in gay chat rooms. When I visited San Francisco, I even withdrew money at the gay bank and washed my clothes at the gay launderette. Everything can so quickly become a pink whirlwind of promiscuity and superficial relationships. And before you know it, you are having pipe dreams of a loving husband and two-point-four children, even though in reality most gay men think that monogamy is something you make furniture out of."
-- Columnist Sam Cotton in the British AIDS magazine Positive Nation, March issue.
beneath and within every young, handsome, gorgeous hunk of man lurks darkness, yearning, and ultimately pure evil. . .but not without the possibility of redemption. . .
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