Gender Rights Advocate

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 ...

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 ...

Trans-Form the Occupation Pauline Park at Occupy Wall Street 13 November 2011 Thank you for the opportunity to speak here. I'm Pauline Park, chair of NYAGRA, the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, and president of the board of directors of Queens Pride House, an LGBT community center in the borough of Queens. I'm honored by the invitation to speak ...

Empowering the Transgender Tribe Pauline Park Chair, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) keynote speech Empowering the Tribe LGBTI Symposium John Jay College 3 November 2011 I would like to begin by thanking Silvia Dapia and Raul Romero and their colleagues at John Jay College for organizing Empowering the Tribe and for inviting me to speak at this symposium. I’ve been asked to talk ...

The Moonlight Amid the Mountains keynote speech Gay-La University of Utah 21 October 2011 Pauline Park Chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) I’m honored by the invitation to speak here at the University of Utah Gay-La  and I’d like to thank the LGBT Resource Center for that invitation. And I’d especially like to thank Cathy Martinez, the director of the Resource ...

The extraordinary popularity of the BBC series, "Who Do You Think You Are?," prompted actress Lisa Kudrow to produce a similar series for NBC. Who Do You Think You Are? (documentary series on genealogy) Who Do You Think You Are? Zoe Wanamaker (1/6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IzSFsSWAc Who Do You Think You Are - Zoe Wanamaker (2/6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cJ9-ma6wg&feature=related Who Do You Think You Are - ...