About-Face at Health Department (Gay City News, 12.7.06)
About-Face at Health Department
By Paul Schindler
Gay City News
12.07.2006
In a move that occasioned the city health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden,
to acknowledge "we were at fault," the Board of Health Tuesday abruptly pulled
back from a proposal that would have allowed New York City-born transgendered
individuals who have not undergone sex-reassignment surgery but nonetheless
provide significant medical certification of ...
Read More
Asian American Communities, People of Color, the Transgender Rights Movement and the Perils of a Post-Identity Politics Paradigm (Vassar, 4.18.12)
Asian American Communities, People of Color, the Transgender Rights Movement
and the Perils of a Post-Identity Politics Paradigm
Pauline Park
Vassar College
18 April 2012
I feel honored to be speaking here at Vassar College again only a year after my last appearance here.
I'd like to begin by thanking the Vassar College Feminist Alliance and TransMission for inviting me to ...
Read More
Der Spiegel & the false construction of Israel as a haven for queer Palestinians
Der Spiegel, the leading news magazine in Germany, is renowned for the quality of its investigative reporting. On 8 April 2012, the magazine posted to its website an extremely misguided op-ed entitled, "Es ist besser, du stirbst" ("It is better that you die") under the heading 'Homosexualität in Palästina' (Homosexuality in Palestine) by Gil Yaron of Tel Aviv.
In his op-ed, Yaron describes Tel ...
Read More
Palestine: the first LGBTQ delegation tour in pictures
Palestine: The First LGBTQ Delegation Tour in Pictures
by
Pauline Park
Day 1: Saturday, Jan. 7: Ramallah: political briefing with Leila Farsakh
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: Qalandia checkpoint
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: East Jerusalem: Sheikh Jarrah
Day 2: Sunday, Jan. 8: East Jerusalem: ...
Read More
The Falklands/Malvinas War 30 Years Later (4.2.12)
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas), and no one at the time could have predicted what an extraordinary impact it would have. I was living in London in 1982, and as shocked as anyone by the turn of events, including Margaret Thatcher's decision to send the ...
Read More
Israel, Facebook & the Klan
Tsipi Erann is a queer progressive Israeli friend I first met in Tel Aviv in January 2012. This is the story of how she got blocked by Facebook:
How I Was Blocked From Facebook
Posted on March 31, 2012
8
This week, my friend Leehee Rothschild published a record of how she was detained by Israeli security, held, and questioned for hours. ...
Read More
Philadelphia Gay News is pinkwashing Israel’s atrocities
Philadelphia Gay News is pinkwashing Israel's atrocities
by Pauline Park
Israel's campaign of 'pinkwashing' -- a campaign to use Israel's supposedly good record on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights to try to justify the brutal and illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories -- has now enlisted the support of Mark Segal, the publisher of ...
Read More
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid speech at the Center (3.3.12)
Queers Against Israel Apartheid (QAIA)
speech at the Center (3.3.12)
Pauline Park
speaking at the
Queers Against Israel Apartheid (QAIA) action
at the LGBT Community Center
3 March 2012
I’m Pauline Park and I’m proud to say that I’m a co-founding member of both Queers Against Israel Apartheid (QAIA) and Queers for an Open LGBT Center (QFOLC) as well as the New ...
Read More
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid action at the Center (3.3.12)
For Immediate Release
PRESS ADVISORY
CONTACT:
Pauline Park
(718) 662-8893 (c); (718) 424-4003 (h)
paulinepark@earthlink.net
OCCUPY THE CENTER!
Protest censorship by New York’s LGBT Community Center
WHO: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and other groups (list below)
WHEN: Saturday, March 3, 2012 from 4-6 PM
WHERE: LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. between 7th and 8th Avenues
WHY: One year ago, amidst great controversy, the LGBT Center banned groups opposing Israeli apartheid. Protesters will confront the Center’s censorship policy ...
Read More
ENDA: To Be Transgender-Inclusive or Not to Be? (10.4.07)
ENDA: To Be Transgender-Inclusive or Not to Be?
The issue of transgender inclusion in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has been debated within the community for over a decade now. Up until last week, the battle lines drawn seemed to be between transgender activists on the one hand and U.S. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) — the lead ...
Read More
ENDA: To Be Transgender-Inclusive or Not to Be? (10.4.07)
ENDA: To Be Transgender-Inclusive or Not to Be?
The issue of transgender inclusion in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has been debated within the community for over a decade now. Up until last week, the battle lines drawn seemed to be between transgender activists on the one hand and U.S. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) -- the lead ...
Read More
We are the 99%
We are the ninety-nine percent.
Wir sind die neunundneunzig Prozent. (German)
Nous sommes le quatre-vingt-dix-neuf pour cent. (French)
Noi siamo il novantanove per cento. (Italian)
Somos el ciento noventa y nueve porciento. (Spanish)
Vi er nittini prosent. (Norwegian)
Vi är de nittionio procent. (Swedish)
Við erum þá níutíu og níu prósent. (Icelandic)
Yr ydym yn y cant 99. (Welsh Gaelic)
Tá muid ar an ...
Read More
Recent Entries
- About-Face at Health Department (Gay City News, 12.7.06)
- Asian American Communities, People of Color, the Transgender Rights Movement and the Perils of a Post-Identity Politics Paradigm (Vassar, 4.18.12)
- Der Spiegel & the false construction of Israel as a haven for queer Palestinians
- Palestine: the first LGBTQ delegation tour in pictures
- The Falklands/Malvinas War 30 Years Later (4.2.12)
- Israel, Facebook & the Klan
- Philadelphia Gay News is pinkwashing Israel's atrocities
- Queers Against Israeli Apartheid speech at the Center (3.3.12)
Recent Comments
- Arash Irandoost: Thank you Pauline for your insightf...
- Bridget: Right on Pauline! I share with you...
- Paul Priore: To All Concern: As a gay man, I str...
- Paul Priore: Re: NYC City Councilmember/Council ...
- raechel: Hi Pauline, Thanks so much for writ...
- Joseph Ogun Ori: Thank you for sharing...I also enjo...
- s.a. toronto canada: youtube.com deer tanai buteesen bar...
- s.a. toronto canada: sain bna uu, namaig s.a. gedeg, 4 j...

