An Interview with Pauline Park
Chapter 8 in Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, edited by Gina Masequesmay & Sean Metzger
Based on interviews conducted August 22, 2004 and January 3, 2005
1.      What does transgender mean? Can you distinguish between transgender and gay/lesbian/bisexual for the reader?
‘Transgender’ is an umbrella term that refers to a diverse population.  The transgender community [...]

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 [...]

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 Survival Skills to Non-Western [...]

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 may cater to their communities, [...]

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 of Law. The clinic, named GMHC@Queens [...]

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 [...]

Tranny Toilet Trouble
New York Post
letter to the editor
4.20.05
April 20, 2005 –  In her op-ed (”Tranny Time,” Opinion, April 18), Nicole Gelinas inaccurately claims that the guidelines for implementation of the 2002 New York City transgender rights law say that “people can pick whichever gender they want to be.”
Not true. The guidelines recognize that transgendered people [...]

USGA Welcomes Trans Golfers
By Cyd Zeigler, Jr.
OutSports.com
3.25.05
To little fanfare, the United States Golf Association this week adopted a policy to allow post-op transgender male-to-female golfers to participate in women’s tournaments.
Nary a whisper of it hit the airwaves. Not a peep was uttered about it on the Outsports.com discussion board. Even the guys on “Pardon The [...]

Pauline Park, a co-chairwoman of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, at the Manhattan Mall, Herald Square, Friday.
(photo: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times)
Transgender Group Reaches Agreement on Restrooms
By Nicholas Confessore
New York Times
2 April 2005
When Pauline Park watched Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sign an amendment toughening the city’s anti-discrimination laws two years [...]

City Needs to Start Enforcing Transgender Rights Bill
By Pauline Park
Gay City News
29 April 2004
Two years ago this month, the New York City Council passed Int. No. 24, amending the city’s human rights law to add gender identity and expression, thereby extending protection from discrimination to transsexual, transgendered, and gender-variant people throughout the five boroughs.
I still [...]

Birth Certificate Policy Must Reflect Reality of Trans Lives
By Pauline Park and Michael Silverman
Gay City News
16 November 2006
Most people don’t think about their birth certificates. But for transgendered people, changing the sex designation on their birth certificates from M to F or F to M can be a crucial step in getting a job, traveling, and even accessing public restrooms. [...]

More than 2,000 people rallied for equal rights in front of the capitol building in Albany.
New Yorkers Lobby Albany for Equality and Justice Day in Record Numbers
Constituents urge lawmakers to pass three key bills this session
By Kat Long
New York Blade
5.1.2009
Riding the momentum of recent victories for gay equality in Iowa, Vermont, Washington D.C. and other states, Empire [...]