Gender Rights Advocate

Transgendering the Academy: Transforming the Relationship Between Theory and Praxis Pauline Park, Ph.D. Chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) keynote speech Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students & Studies San Francisco 28 February 2010 Introduction: Situating Myself (the Personal as Political) Thank you, Dorotea, for that wonderful introduction. And thanks to Joe Subbiondo ...

Patrick Cheng's mother reads a statement in Chinese in support of her son and the LGBT/queer API community at the QAPI press conference in Chinatown on Jan. 30.  At left: lead organizers Irene Tung & Aries Liao. NYAGRA statement on the participation of LGBT/queer APIs in the 2010 Chinese lunar new year parade in Chinatown Pauline Park, ...

Tom Duane Melissa Sklarz NYAGRA history: 2000 With the crisis over Chelsea Goodwin's membership -- and that of her partner, Rusty Mae Moore -- resolved in December 1999, the new year brought new opportunities to re-establish a firmer foundation for the organization. And so in January 2000, I proposed to the board that we incorporate as a not-for-profit ...

On the steps of City Hall at the press conference on 29 February 2000 announcing the public launch of the campaign for Int. No. 24, the New York City transgender rights bill. Front row: Council Member Margarita Lopez, Council Member Philip Reed, Juan Figueroa (executive director of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Education Fund), ...

...an 18th century-style double-keyboard French harpsichord of the sort for which most Baroque keyboard music was written... "Music for a while shall all your cares beguile" (from "Oedipus") is one of my favorite songs of Henry Purcell, widely considered the greatest of English composers. Music has always been an important part of my life, and these ...

Iowa state capitol in Des Moines In November 2009, Iowa commemorated the first Transgender Day of Remembrance in the history of the state, and I  was honored to have been invited to speak at a number of events that were organized as part of that commemoration. The central event was the TDOR on the steps of the ...