"[4] Established in 1988 after months of discussion from several members of the Asian Gay Men's Support Group at Berkeley's Pacific Center for Human Growth, GAPA was formed fundamentally to organize, integrate, and nurture a growing gay and bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) identity and to foster positive role models within the community.

[12] From 2010 until 2019, Runway was hosted and produced by the GAPA Foundation, rebranded in 2020 as the Prism Foundation, a separate 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers the Asian/Pacific Islander LGBTQ community by providing financial assistance to API LGBTQ students applying to or currently attending post-secondary institutions and providing core funding to under-resourced and under-represented San Francisco Bay Area community organizations and projects.

[17] In December 2016, the chorus was invited to sing the national anthem at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California, for the Golden State Warriors.

[21] GAPA Theatre[22] provides queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander men a place to tell their stories and, in doing so, to reach out for support, express their desires, respond to the social, cultural, sexual, and political discourse, or to simply be and feel heard.

[30] Current GAPA Chair Michael Nguyen, co-founder of the Bay Area QTAPI Coalition in 2017,[31] was the lead organizer of the week-long series of live and virtual events.