Julio Rivera’s brother, Ted & niece, Jennifer (second and third from left) at the July 2 vigil on 37th St. in Jackson Heights (photo: John Won).
On 2 July 2010, members of the family of Julio Rivera were joined by nearly 70 people who gathered to remember the murder of the young gay Latino who was [...]
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 [...]
City implements trans rights
Local Law 3 amends the city’s Human Rights Law to protect gender identity and
expression
By Mike Lavers
New York Blade News
Friday, April 22, 2005
As a transsexual, Justine Nicholas said she often feels like Nora in the last act of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.” This sense of isolation was only compounded after a security guard in Midtown demanded that [...]
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 [...]
