Gender Rights Advocate

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 generally bleak tenor of a ...

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 ...

Plotinus, as depicted by Raphael in "The School of Athens" Plotinus on the soul: The souls of men, seeing their images in the mirror of Dionysus as it were, have entered into that realm in a leap downward from the Supreme: yet even they are not cut off from their origin, from the divine Intellect; it is not that they ...

Voltaire on the natural human tendency towards domination: "All men are born with a sufficiently violent liking for domination, wealth and pleasure, and with much taste for idleness..." (The Philosophical Dictionary, section II of the chapter on equality; translated by H.I. Woolf, 1924).

Klee's "Insula Dulcamara" (1938) Paul Klee on intuition in art According to Paul Klee, the technique of the brush stroke is a great deal, but the crucial factor in painting is intuition. "We construct and construct," Klee wrote in a Bauhaus prospectus, "and yet intuition is still a good thing. A considerable amount can be done without ...

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 ...