Pataki ready to be underdog once again
Governor’s gay-friendly record could hurt a potential presidential run
By James Withers
New York Blade News
August 5, 2005
After months of speculation, Gov. George Pataki made it official last week and announced he would not seek a fourth term. Instead, many political experts expect Pataki to make a run for the Republican Party’s nomination for [...]

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 question not about her unusual [...]

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 female sex. “He called us up and [...]

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 current students and dropouts, is considered [...]

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 been hurt or threatened. [...]

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 few high-level appointments to his [...]

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 Council over Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto. DASA [...]

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 same-sex marriage and even civil unions. State representatives [...]

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 labor organizations representing the [...]

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 “silly law” that “doesn’t make [...]

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 her apartment in Providence, [...]

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 before the New York [...]