Pride House Faces Uncertain Future By Domenick Rafter Queens Tribune 15 July 2010 The Queens Pride House, the only LGBT community center in the borough, is facing an uncertain future in the wake of Gov. David Paterson’s veto of state spending bills in his ongoing dispute with the state legislature. Gov. Paterson vetoed half a [...]
Pauline Park: a profile from Transgender Equality: A Handbook for Activists & Policymakers As coordinator of a legislative work group that includes city council members, transgender-supportive allies, and other members of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, Pauline Park is one of the key players in the initiative to amend New York City’s [...]
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 [...]
TransWorld Conference 1998 by Pauline Park The Missive fall 1998 The Audre Lorde Project (ALP) will be hosting TransWorld: New York’s first conference specifically for People of Color of Transgender experience. On Saturday, October 24, this full-day conference will feature a variety of panels and workshops. Speakers will address a range of issues, spanning from [...]
Spotlight on Incubator Projects Iban/QKNY: Building Queer Korean Community by Pauline Park The Missive: News from the board, staff & volunteers of the Audre Lorde Project spring 1999 Iban/Queer Koreans of New York is a social, discussion, and support group and political advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Koreans, Korean Americans, and Korean adoptees. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gays’ Forum on Police Amid claims of mistreatment, group eyes fixes By Alan Krawitz Newsday 9 July 2002 When Jeffrey Montgomery’s boyfriend was killed in 1985 in Detroit, a police source told Montgomery the department didn’t want to waste resources by investigating “just another gay killing,” he said. That surprising revelation served to underscore the [...]
Jackson Heights This Week New Law Stands Up For LGBT Youth Queens Tribune 1-7 July 2010 The New York State Senate passed sweeping anti-bullying legislation on June 22 that will be the first in the nation to include protection for transgender individuals. The Dignity for All Students Act passed the Senate by an overwhelming 58-3 [...]
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 [...]
Julio Rivera’s brother, Ted & niece, Jennifer (second and third from left) at the July 2 vigil on 37th St. in Jackson Heights (photo: John Won). On 2 July 2010, members of the family of Julio Rivera were joined by nearly 70 people who gathered to remember the murder of the young gay Latino who [...]
Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer came to the forum at NYU and spoke briefly about transgender rights. Turning Law Into Action Panel at NYU discusses obstacles, opportunities of gender rights law By Winnie McCroy Gay City News April 21-27, 2005 Vol. IV, Issue 16 A crowd of about 50 transgendered people, advocates and political leaders gathered [...]
