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Queering Chinatown: the first LGBT contingent in New York’s lunar new year parade makes history

Leading the LGBT contingent in the 2010 Chinese lunar new year parade... On February 21, we made history, as the first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) contingent in the Chinese lunar new year parade in New York's Chinatown. LGBT contingents have marched in the lunar new year parades in Chinatowns in San Francisco, Seattle, and ...
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 one Commented
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Transgendering the Academy

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 ...
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, NYAGRA, Politics, Transgender Health, Transgender Rights
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OutPOCPAC calls for expulsion of Senator Hiram Monserrate

In 2009, Sen. Hiram Monserrate was convicted on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pauline Park OutPOCPAC co-president paulinepark@earthlink.net Doug Robinson OutPOCPAC co-president doug@outpocpac.org New York, NY, January 21, 2010 – The Out People of Color Political Action Club (OutPOCPAC) today endorsed the unanimous report of the New York State Senate's Special Committee of Inquiry on Sen. ...
Monday, February 1st, 2010 one Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, New York City, Politics, Transgender Rights
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NYAGRA on LGBT-inclusive 2010 Chinese lunar new year parade

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, ...
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 one Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, NYAGRA, New York City, Politics, Religion, Transgender Rights, queer API, spirituality
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NYC Transgender Activists Push Human Rights Amendment

Simplicity That Should Strike Everyone Pauline Park leads the charge at City Hall. (photo lgny) NYC Transgender Activists Push Human Rights Amendment By Paul Schindler Lesbian & Gay New York 3.10.2000 More than two dozen transgender activists and City Councilmembers appeared on the steps of City Hall February 29 to propose an amendment to the city’s human rights ordinance to include protection ...
Monday, December 28th, 2009 No Commented
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NYAGRA history: 2000

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 ...
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, NYAGRA, New York City, Politics, Transgender Rights
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NYAGRA history: 1999

Chelsea Goodwin NYAGRA history: 1999 NYAGRA's first crisis was precipitated by Chelsea Goodwin and Rusty Mae Moore, who joined the working group in early 1999. I had warned Donna, Paisley and David that Chelsea’s membership of the working group would pose a significant challenge for the fledgling organization, but they would not listen to my warning. Paisley insisted ...
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, NYAGRA, New York City, Transgender Health, Transgender Rights
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NYAGRA history part one: the founding

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), ...
Saturday, December 26th, 2009 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, NYAGRA, New York City, Politics, Transgender Health, Transgender Rights
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The Working Families Party: Gay for Pay…?

Jimmy Van Bramer, Tom Duane, Christine Quinn & Danny Dromm When the Working Families Party burst on the scene a decade ago, I was excited to see a new political party in New York that was explicitly committed to pursuing a progressive political agenda. The WFP seemed like a refreshing alternative to politics as usual, especially ...
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, New York City, Politics, health care
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Music for a while shall all your cares beguile

...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 ...
Friday, December 18th, 2009 No Commented
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Gov. Paterson signs executive order protecting trans state employees

Gov. David Paterson, Pauline Park of NYAGRA & Michael Silverman of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) (photo courtesy of Michael K. Lavers) On Dec. 16, Gov. David Paterson signed an executive order (Executive Order No. 33) prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity or expression in state employment. As the chair of the New York Association ...
Thursday, December 17th, 2009 2 Commented
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Iowa: a week of transgender events

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 ...
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 one Commented
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