Loehmann’s settles human rights complaint with transgender woman By Chris Lombardi Chelsea Now Volume One, Issue 23 February 23 – March 1, 2007 Jane Garra, a tall, leggy blues guitarist with hair flopping into her eyes, is often interrupted during performances at Brooklyn’s Buttermilk bar and the Ace Café in Manhattan, accosted by young women with a simple [...]

Advocates Protest Name Change Denial Trans rights group presses for reconsideration of Manhattan ruling By Duncan Osborne Gay City News 14-20 September 2006 Volume 5, Number 37 The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is objecting after a Manhattan Civil Court judge denied name changes to four transgendered women who sought the new names as part of transitioning to their [...]

Gay students face hostile environment, report says By Ellen Yan staff writer Newsday October 28, 2005 Many gay and transgender students have been harassed daily in city schools, including by staff who call them names or remain silent when they see bullying, concludes a report released Thursday. The survey from the nonprofit Advocates for Children, which interviewed 75 [...]

Report: Staff also taunt gay students New York Blade News 4 November 2005 Both students and staff in city schools harass gay students, a nonprofit group announced last week in a published study. In a survey sponsored by Advocates for Children, about a third of the students reported being called names daily and 26 percent said they had [...]

La Rudia Giuliani & Transgender Rights: The Untold Story by Pauline Park 10 July 10 2007 BigQueer.com As Rudolph William Louis Giuliani pursues his candidacy for for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, the former mayor of New York City is almost invariably described by the mainstream media as “pro-gay rights.” That reputation is largely based on a [...]

Bloomberg’s record on gay issues is dismal letter to the editor Washington Blade 6 July 2007 To the Editors: Re: “Bloomberg faulted for mixed record on gay issues” (news, June 29) There is one major omission in Joshua Lynsen’s article — mention of the Dignity in All Schools Act, enacted in 2004 by the New York City [...]

Gay clout: The buck stops here Our votes — and dollars — have given us clout in the city & state’s political ring By James Withers New York Blade News June 24, 2005 For many of us, just picking up the newspaper can be a depressing experience today. Voters in state after state are busy striking down [...]

Globalization & the Challenge to the LGBT Labor Movement By Pauline Park co-founder, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) co-founder, Iban/Queer Koreans of New York The massive protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 dramatized the growing resistance to globalization. What are the implications of globalization for labor and for [...]

Gay City News LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Protecting Youth and Trans New Yorkers September 21, 2004 To the Editor: Nicholas Boston’s excellent report on the enactment of the Dignity in All Schools Act (“Council Overrides Very Glib Bloomberg,” September 16-22) quotes Mayor Michael Bloomberg referring to the Dignity for All Schools Act (DASA) as a [...]

NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: NEW YORK UP CLOSE; New Bias Frontier: A Council Bill Aims to Protect the Transgendered By Denny Lee New York Times 11 June 2000 When Donnie Vargas switched sexes and became Diana, her masculine wardrobe was not the only thing to go. She lost her job waiting on tables and was evicted from [...]

Transgender Rights editorial New York Times 29 August 2000 People who have had sex-change surgery, cross-dressers and others whose gender identity does not conform to societal norms are often targets of violence and bias that force them to live in fear for their safety or the loss of their jobs and shelter. A bill now [...]

Pauline Park, a co-chairwoman of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, at the Manhattan Mall, Herald Square, Friday. (photo: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times) Transgender Group Reaches Agreement on Restrooms By Nicholas Confessore New York Times 2 April 2005 When Pauline Park watched Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sign an amendment toughening [...]