Pride Goes on Parade By Jacob E. Osterhout New York Daily News 6.25.05 Tomorrow, check out the festivities at New York’s 36th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride March, known simply as the Gay Pride Parade. Initially called the March on Stonewall, the Gay Pride Parade started out in 1969 as a protest against discrimination, [...]
Park Slope Food Co-op censors discussion of Israeli ‘pinkwashing’ I was invited to speak at the Park Slope Food Co-op on Israeli ‘pinkwashing,’ but unfortunately, the powers that be cancelled the panel discussion. This is the letter to the Co-op members to be published in the Co-op newspaper. If you are a member, please write [...]
Transfeminism Speaking My Truth to Power by Pauline Park Is there a ‘trans feminism’? And if so, what is it? Given that feminism itself is such a charged subject and transgender identity is a contested domain, that question is a productive one even if one not easy to answer. It was in graduate school (1988-94) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
