Community
Friendship, belonging, and support across generations.
Culture
Asian-centered gatherings, stories, food, and shared experiences.
Continuity
Preserving and evolving a community legacy since 1984.
Programs
What AFW does.
AFW creates welcoming ways to gather through social connection, wellness, and culture. Luma carries the details of what is happening next.
Social
Casual gatherings for conversation, food, friendship, and connection across the DMV.
Wellness
Walks, hikes, movement-based gatherings, and low-pressure ways to connect while being active.
Culture
Museum visits, food experiences, Pride gatherings, and programs connected to queer Asian community life.
Our story
A legacy with room for what comes next.
AFW has been part of Washington's LGBTQ+ Asian community landscape since 1984. The next chapter honors the happy hours, potlucks, movie nights, and friendships that came before while creating new ways to gather across generations.
Built by community, sustained by friendship, and renewed by people who still need a place to be fully seen.
Regional circles
One community, many circles.
AFW is DMV-rooted, with gatherings that can move through DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Regional circle
DC
Central meetups, Pride season moments, and familiar places for gathering in the city.
Regional circle
Maryland
Neighborhood-scale circles for members and friends across Montgomery, Prince George's, and beyond.
Regional circle
Virginia
Welcoming connection points across Northern Virginia for coffee, walks, food, and friendship.
IFCON / IFW
Part of a broader Asians & Friends tradition.
AFW is connected to a wider network of Asians & Friends chapters and an annual gathering tradition often remembered as International Friendship Weekend: community travel, chosen family, cultural exchange, and intercity friendship.