Transgendered People of Color Take Center Stage
by Pauline Park
The Missive of the Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
winter 1998
(the following are excerpts from a longer article that appeared in LGNY’s November 19th issue)
The first conference specifically by and for transgendered people of color ever held in New York City, and to my knowledged, anywhere, was a historic [...]
Woodside clinic offers legal aid to HIV patients
By Dustin Brown
Times-Ledger
10.24.2002
For people in Queens who are living with HIV, the options for finding legal guidance are limited.
Although they could find free services by going into Manhattan, job and family commitments often stand in the way. While legal clinics in their neighborhoods may cater to their communities, [...]
GMHC Expands Legal Reach to Queens
Pride House in Woodside home to effort focused on new Americans
By Matthew Coleman
Gay City News
1-7 November 2002
Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GHMC) opened a new legal services program this week in Queens in cooperation with Queens Pride House and the City University of New York School of Law. The clinic, named GMHC@Queens [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more info., contact:
Daniel Castellanos
Executive Director
(718) 429-5309
(646) 285-6931
dcastellanos@queenspridehouse.org
Pauline Park
Vice-President, Board of Directors
(718) 424-4003
paulinepark@earthlink.net
Queens Pride House
76-11 37th Avenue, Suite 206
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(718) 429-5309
http://www.queenspridehouse.org/
New York, 6 July 2010 — Queens Pride House is appealing to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community for support in the face of possibly devastating state funding [...]
Gay City News
9 December 2004
On the day that The New York Times ran a front-page story reporting that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was moderating its push for same-sex marriage rights and willing to entertain a discussion of supporting Social Security privatization in return for recognition of gay and lesbian partners in the program, dozens [...]
More than 2,000 people rallied for equal rights in front of the capitol building in Albany.
New Yorkers Lobby Albany for Equality and Justice Day in Record Numbers
Constituents urge lawmakers to pass three key bills this session
By Kat Long
New York Blade
5.1.2009
Riding the momentum of recent victories for gay equality in Iowa, Vermont, Washington D.C. and other states, Empire [...]
New Yorkers Join National Fight for Trans Equality
By Brett Krutzsch
NY Blade
Friday, May 18, 2007
Personal stories of harassment and discrimination were a uniting theme Tuesday night at the LGBT Center in Chelsea during a panel titled “Clock In/Speak Out: Gaining Momentum for Workplace Equality in New York and the U.S.”
Almost 50 people attended the discussion on transgender rights, [...]
Trans Health Fair Debuts at Center
By Brett Krutzsch
New York Blade
Friday, June 01, 2007
Robert Eads, a female to male transsexual, died from ovarian cancer after being turned away by more than two dozen physicians who worried that taking him on as a patient might harm their practices. A documentary released in 2001, “Southern Comfort,” chronicles Eads’ [...]
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 [...]
On July 21, the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) published the first public directory of transgender-sensitive providers in the New York City metropolitan area. The Gender Identity Project (GIP) of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (208 W. 13th St. in Manhattan) hosted a special event from 7-9 p.m. at which hundreds [...]
