On 5 March 2011, LGBT supporters of Palestinian human rights protested the LGBT Community Center’s cancellation of an Israeli Apartheid Week event scheduled for that evening. The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Breaks Out at the NYC  LGBT Community Center Among the issues that Americans lump under the rubric of ‘foreign affairs,’ perhaps the most divisive and the [...]

GLAAD is wrong on ‘transgender’ vs. ‘transgendered’ Consider this item from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Reference Guide: PROBLEMATIC: “transgendered” PREFERRED: “transgender” The word transgender never needs the extraneous “ed” at the end of the word. In fact, such a construction is grammatically incorrect. Only verbs can be transformed into participles [...]

Four Held In Brutal Queens Killing Marked by Anti-Gay Slurs By Paul Schindler Gay City News 3.17.11 The NYPD has arrested four teenage men in the beating and stomping death of Anthony Collao, an 18-year-old Long Islander attacked when the suspects allegedly forced their way into a birthday party in an abandoned house in Woodhaven, [...]

Anthony Callao’s MySpace page profile photo Officials: Teen beaten to death in hate crime By Anna Gustafson, Assistant Editor Queens Chronicle 3.17.2011 An 18-year-old died at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Monday after four Queens teenagers allegedly screaming anti-gay slurs and wielding a chrome bat and a cane beat him on a sidewalk in Woodhaven, according [...]

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves NYC Forum Friday, March 18 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm Bluestockings Books 172 Allen St (Lower East Side, Manhattan) Please join Joe Ippolito, Pauline Park, and other Trans Bodies, Trans Selves editors for this amazing event. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves – a Transgender Resource Guide – to host coast-to-coast Community Involvement Forums to ensure [...]

More Sniping in the Gay Center’s Battle of Zion By Steven Thrasher Village Voice 15 March 2011 Michael Lucas, the pro-Zionist pornographer who led the successful effort to get the LGBT Center to cancel an anti-Zionist “Israeli Apartheid Week” event, once again dominated discussion at what was billed a “community forum” last weekend on who [...]

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Anaraa Nyamdorj & Munkhzaya Nergui of the Mongolian LGBT Centre with Pauline Park at the 2011 Celebration of Courage Mongolian Courage & LGBT Community Advocating on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender is difficult work everywhere; but imagine doing LGBT activism in the face of death threats. That’s precisely what the members of [...]

Parking Rights Pauline Park is fighting for transgender rights By Kevin Allison New York Blade Friday, July 18, 2003 Late one night, years ago, Pauline Park squeezed onto an E train to Queens in a burgundy gown. A man shoved past, selling batteries. When he saw Park, he was disgusted. “If you’re a man, dress [...]

Proto-Transgenderal & Homoerotic Traditions in Pre-Modern Asian & Pacific Island Societies by Pauline Park presentation at the Asian American & Pacific Islander pre-conference institute Creating Change 2011 Minneapolis 3 February 2011 There is a very wide misconception that ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender’ (LGBT) constitutes a purely modern phenomenon created by late nineteenth and early twentieth [...]

Links to some of my favorite dramas on television and film. Brideshead Revisited (ITV, 1983) Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0nrC-vfaY Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1S3LBDT3vk&feature=related Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSKlsIaoWY&feature=related Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehY-9B_p2M&feature=related Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P6W7txlEtA&feature=related Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART [...]

A Panel Discussion: MOVING FORWARD: Where are LGBTI/SOGI Human Rights going at the UN? 1‐3 p.m. Friday, January 21 Conference Room, 10th Floor Church Center 777 United Nations Plaza Featuring: Charles Radcliffe, Chief of Global Issues, OHCHR Cheikh Traore, Senior Advisor for Sexual Diversity, UNDP Selly Thiam, Executive Director, None on Record Pauline Park, Chair, NY Association for Gender Rights Advocacy Hassan El Menyawi, Visiting Professor, UN University For More Information Please Contact Bruce Knotts @: bknotts@uu‐uno.org or 212‐986‐5156 Sponsored by the UN NGO Committee on Human Rights