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Tsang worked with early activist organizations such as the [[Gay Liberation Front]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]], the [[Graduate Employees' Organization]] (GEO), and East Wind, an Asian American activist organization.<ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|210}} Tsang also worked as a librarian for [[Temple University]], [[Community College of Philadelphia]], [[Free Library of Philadelphia]] and the [[University of California, Irvine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5142|title=DANIEL C. TSANG|accessdate=June 21, 2014|publisher=University of California}}</ref>
 
In 1978 Tsang attended what he described as the founding meeting of the [[North American Man/Boy Love Association]] (NAMBLA), a pro-paedophiliaqueer advocacyactivist organisationgroup.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tsang |first1=Daniel |title=Men & Boys: The Boston Conference |work=[[Gaysweek]] |volume=3 |number=103 |date=February 12, 1979 |pages=8–9}}</ref> He edited the 1981 volume ''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power, and Consent,'' a publication that argueddiscussed inthe favorgay of the legalizationage of sex between adults and children, child prostitution, and child pornographyconsent.<ref>{{cite news |title='Age Taboo' Editor at NAMBLA Reception |url=https://archive.org/details/BAR_19820624/page/n11/mode/2up |work=[[Bay Area Reporter]] |volume=12 |number=25 |date=June 24, 1982 |page=12 |language=English}}</ref><ref>D. Tsang, ed., ''The Age Taboo: Gay Male Sexuality, Power and Consent'' (Boston, Alyson Publications, 1981), pp. 49, 51.</ref> As of 1989 he was a member of the Southern California chapter of NAMBLA.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bull |first1=Chris |title=LA boylovers battle dwindling participation |url=https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews1629gayc/page/2/mode/2up |work=[[Gay Community News (Boston)|Gay Community News]] |volume=16 |number=29 |date=February 11–15, 1989 |page=2}}</ref>
 
Tsang's career has combined librarianship with activism. Key areas include organizing for queer rights among Asians, queer liberation, union rights, documenting social change, and archiving protest.