Metro Weekly: Dana Burgess traces Korean American Immigration

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Being a gay Korean American, it is always refreshing to know that there is someone just like you out there in the community. The gay magazine for the DC Metro Area did an interview with Dana Tai Soon Burgess about who he is and his ethnic ancestry.

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Moving History
Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess Traces Memories of Korean-American Immigration


History is so much more than a simple series of times and dates and places. History is a fluid thing, a series of stories that intertwine and illuminate, a cycle that carries meaning from one generation to the next. History is the process of making change and preserving tradition.

History is the story of people in motion.

In 1903, thousands of people aboard steamships from Asia began that story of Korean American immigration. Arriving in waves in Hawaii to work on plantations, those families and the generations that followed created an integral part of the American experiment. That one-hundred year history is being celebrated by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program's 2003 Korean American Centennial Commemoration.