Trans-Form the Occupation Pauline Park at Occupy Wall Street 13 November 2011 Thank you for the opportunity to speak here. I’m Pauline Park, chair of NYAGRA, the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy, and president of the board of directors of Queens Pride House, an LGBT community center in the borough of Queens. I’m [...]
Transgender Health Care 10 Simple Rules for Providers to Consider Pauline Park, Ph.D. Chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) Transgendered and gender-variant people face pervasive discrimination in attempting to access health care in the United States. Some of the impediments to accessing quality health care are obvious and some are not. Based on my [...]
Moving Beyond Shock on Transgender Health By Paul Schindler Even for those with some knowledge of the economic, social, and health disparities facing the transgender community, an August New York Times Magazine story, “The High Price of Looking Like a Woman,”likely shocked the conscience. The story explored an underground and little known practice by which [...]
The ‘Transableism’ Phenomenon: Paraphilia, Fantasy & Phantasmagoria in the Construction of the Transgendered Body Pauline Park, Ph.D. paper presented at the TransSomatechnics Conference Vancouver 2 May 2008 Introduction: BIID & ‘Transableism’ If ‘soma’ refers to the body and ‘techne’ includes the various technologies by which we can transform human anatomy and biology, one of the most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
