Pride and Division in Queens
Two gay candidates look strong but a flap dogs one
By Paul Schindler
Gay City News, 6.28.02
Even as two longtime gay leaders in Queens look to become the borough’s first out elected officials, a divisive flap over one of the candidates threatens to undermine the unity that might otherwise be expected to [...]
SONDA and Transgender Inclusion in Pending State Legislation
by Pauline Park
Member, NYAGRA Board of Directors
January 2002
Recently, there has been much discussion within the transgender community in New York City about the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), the ‘gay rights bill’ currently pending in the New York state legislature. I would like to take this opportunity to inform NYAGRA members about [...]
Invisible No More
By John Caldwell
The Advocate
15 March 2005
It’s been a year since an offensive feature in Details inspired unprecedented activism and visibility among gay and lesbian Asians. So how much has really changed?
While Andy Wong has gotten over what he calls “the biggest mistake of my life”—joining the Mormon Church in high school—he still struggles [...]
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 billion dollars in discretionary funding [...]
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 Human [...]
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 [...]
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 generally bleak tenor of a [...]
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 margin, winning support from [...]
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 [...]
Berkeley (1685-1753) was born in the same year as Bach & Handel.
One of my all-time favorite quotes is from George Berkeley, an Irish bishop who was (along with John Locke and David Hume) one of the leading philosophers of the school of British empiricism:
“Few men think, yet all will have opinions.”
No one ever put it [...]
Follow Up on Clinton’s Gender Rights Comments
By: Pauline Park
Gay City News
11.9.2006
To the Editor:
In your article, “Absorbing Gay Pain & Praise, Clinton Says She’s Evolved” (Paul Schindler, Oct. 26-Nov. 1), you report on Senator Hillary Clinton’s response to a question from a member of the Greater Voices Coalition about whether she would support inclusion of gender identity and expression in [...]
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 at New York University’s Kimmel Center on April [...]
