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 [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more info., contact: Peter Pavich Interim Executive Director (718)429-5309 pnp8@hotmail.com PPavich@queenspridehouse.org Pauline Park President, Board of Directors (718) 424-4003 (718) 662-8893 paulinepark@earthlink.net PPark@queenspridehouse.org Queens Pride House 76-11 37th Avenue, Suite 206 Jackson Heights, NY 11372 (718) 429-5309 http://www.queenspridehouse.org/ New York, 15 March 2011 — Queens Pride House, the borough’s only lesbian, gay, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
