Gays’ forum on police amid claims of mistreatment, group eyes fixes (Newsday, 7.9.02)
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 ...
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New Law Stands Up For LGBT Youth (Queens Tribune, 7.1.10)
Jackson Heights This Week
New Law Stands Up For LGBT Youth
Queens Tribune
1-7 July 2010
The New York State Senate passed sweeping anti-bullying legislation on June 22 that will be the first in the nation to include protection for transgender individuals.
The Dignity for All Students Act passed the Senate by an overwhelming 58-3 margin, winning support from ...
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Queens Pride House faces funding shortfall (7.6.10)
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 ...
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Mâche: eat well, lose weight, save the planet
mâche rosette...
Mâche is unique among salad greens: it's the only one I've found that I actually like. With a sweet, nutty flavor, mâche looks like arugula but lacks the bitter aftertaste. And mâche grows in cute little rosettes (clusters of little green leaves).
Also called 'lamb's lettuce' ("which may be a reference to the fact that ...
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Plotinus on the soul
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 ...
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Julio Rivera: remembering his murder 20 years later
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 ...
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Voltaire on the human tendency towards domination, wealth & pleasure
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).
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Bishop Berkeley on thinking & opinions
Berkeley (1685-1753) was born in the same year as Bach & Handel.
One of my all-time favorite quotes is from George Berkeley, an Irish bishop who was (along with John Locke and David Hume) one of the leading philosophers of the school of British empiricism:
"Few men think, yet all will have opinions."
No one ever put it ...
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Paul Klee on intuition in art
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 ...
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NYAGRA letter re Hillary Clinton on TG in federal law (GCN, 11.9.06)
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 ...
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Turning Law Into Action: Panel at NYU (GCN, 4.21.05)
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 ...
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City implements trans rights (NY Blade, 4.22.05)
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 ...
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