Stonewall Honors 40
The Stonewall Honors 40 event at the Highline Ballroom on 3 December 2009...
The Stonewall Honors 40 event on Thursday could hardly have been better attended: more than 500 people crowded into the Highline Ballroom to honor 40 women as part of the Stonewall Community Foundation's commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. I was ...
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25 things about me
One of my favorite places on earth: Frying Pan Creek in Mt. Rainier National Park...
Awhile back, a friend of mine suggested I do '25 Things' on Facebook, but I was a little reluctant to do that application on Facebook (too much like a chain letter), so I'm doing it my own way, here on my ...
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Iowa Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009: Speech Text
...gathering on the steps of the Iowa state capitol in Des Moines
to commemorate the first Transgender Day of Remembrance in Iowa...
Iowa Transgender Day of Remembrance
20 November 2009
Pauline Park
Chair, New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)
Today, we come together here on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines to commemorate the very ...
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Iowa’s First Transgender Day of Remembrance
On Friday, November 20, Iowa will commemorate the first Transgender Day of Remembrance in the history of the state. I am honored to have been invited to speak at a number of events that have been organized as part of that commemoration.
On Wednesday, November 18, there will be a welcoming reception at The Center, followed by ...
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Campus Pride Names Pauline Park One of Top 25 LGBT Favorites
Campus Pride names Pauline Park to its 'hot list' of LGBT speakers
I was delighted to receive this message just today:
"Congratulations! You've been chosen by students, campus activity professionals, and other Campus Pride constituents for the 2009 Campus Pride HOT LIST! The list is made up of the top twenty-five speakers, lecturers, and performers from around the ...
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Bill Thompson for Mayor
Pauline Park, Bill Thompson & Bernie Tarver at the LGBT for Thompson fundraiser (October 14)
There are two reasons to vote for Bill Thompson for mayor of New York in November 2009: first, because he's been a good comptroller of the City of New York; second, because he's not Mike Bloomberg.
"Bloomberg’s legacy has been most tarnished ...
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Stonewall Community Foundation honors 40, including Pauline Park
The Stonewall Community Foundation is the largest source of funds for organizations in New York City serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT community).
My own history with Stonewall goes back to 2000, when I submitted the first grant application on behalf of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), a transgender advocacy ...
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The Met’s New Season: Warhorses to Operatic Rarities
Renée Fleming in Rossini's "Armida"
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2009-10 season is anything if not eclectic, representing a judicious mix of old warhorses and operatic rarities. The new season will feature eight new productions – four of which are being billed as "company premieres" – and 18 revivals.
Among the "tried and true" are new productions of two ...
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Ken Burns & Me: Mount Rainier & the National Parks
Mt. Rainier
When I first heard about "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" -- the new documentary by Ken Burns that is airing this week on PBS -- I must admit I was skeptical, wondering if Burns could do for our national parks what he did for the Civil War.
Oh, me of little faith~! Burns has ...
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Love, Death and the Final Journey of Forrest Church
Forrest Church and Pauline Park at All Souls in December 2008
On 24 September 2009, Forrest Church departed from his earthly life, at the age of 61, after a three-year struggle with esophageal cancer.
Forrest was the senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and he was one of the ...
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Pagan Republicans and Other Apparent Anomalies
Dan Halloran performing a pagan ritual; but are the other heathens registered Republican...?
William James wrote of "The Varieties of Religious Experience" in 1902, long before the movement now known as 'neo-paganism' came into its own. While I am not aware of any survey data on the matter, I suspect that most people, if asked, would probably ...
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Thunder Above: a new play on queer Asian American themes
Rey Lucas as Hector, Jon Norman Schneider as Gil and Maureen Sebastian as Theresa in "Thunder Above, Deeps Below"
On Tuesday, I saw "Thunder Above, Deeps Below," a new play by A. Rey Pamatmat (a gay Filipino American friend of mine), and it's being staged by Second Generation, one of the leading Asian American theater companies ...
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