Israeli/Palestinian conflict breaks out at the NYC LGBT Community Center
On 5 March 2011, LGBT supporters of Palestinian human rights protested the LGBT Community Center's cancellation of an Israeli Apartheid Week event scheduled for that evening.
The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Breaks Out at the NYC LGBT Community Center
Among the issues that Americans lump under the rubric of ‘foreign affairs,’ perhaps the most divisive and the most intractable ...
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GLAAD is wrong on ‘transgender’ vs. ‘transgendered’
GLAAD is wrong on
'transgender' vs. 'transgendered'
Consider this item from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Reference Guide:
PROBLEMATIC: "transgendered"
PREFERRED: "transgender"
The word transgender never needs the extraneous "ed" at the end of the word. In fact, such a construction is grammatically incorrect. Only verbs can be transformed into participles by adding "-ed" to the ...
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Four Held In Brutal Queens Killing Marked by Anti-Gay Slurs (GCN, 3.17.11)
Four Held In Brutal Queens Killing Marked by Anti-Gay Slurs
By Paul Schindler
Gay City News
3.17.11
The NYPD has arrested four teenage men in the beating and stomping death of Anthony Collao, an 18-year-old Long Islander attacked when the suspects allegedly forced their way into a birthday party in an abandoned house in Woodhaven, Queens, shouting anti-gay slurs, ...
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Officials: Teen beaten to death in hate crime (Queens Chronicle, 3.17.11)
Anthony Callao's MySpace page profile photo
Officials: Teen beaten to death in hate crime
By Anna Gustafson, Assistant Editor
Queens Chronicle
3.17.2011
An 18-year-old died at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Monday after four Queens teenagers allegedly screaming anti-gay slurs and wielding a chrome bat and a cane beat him on a sidewalk in Woodhaven, according to the NYPD and other ...
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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves NYC Forum (3.18.11)
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves NYC Forum
Friday, March 18 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen St
(Lower East Side, Manhattan)
Please join Joe Ippolito, Pauline Park, and other Trans Bodies, Trans Selves editors for this amazing event.
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves – a Transgender Resource Guide – to host coast-to-coast Community Involvement Forums to ensure all voices are represented in this ...
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More Sniping in the Gay Center’s Battle of Zion (Village Voice, 3.15.11)
More Sniping in the Gay Center's Battle of Zion
By Steven Thrasher
Village Voice
15 March 2011
Michael Lucas, the pro-Zionist pornographer who led the successful effort to get the LGBT Center to cancel an anti-Zionist "Israeli Apartheid Week" event, once again dominated discussion at what was billed a "community forum" last weekend on who gets to use the ...
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Queens Pride House condemns homophobic murder (3.15.11)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more info., contact:
Peter Pavich
Interim Executive Director
(718)429-5309
pnp8@hotmail.com
PPavich@queenspridehouse.org
Pauline Park
President, Board of Directors
(718) 424-4003
(718) 662-8893
paulinepark@earthlink.net
PPark@queenspridehouse.org
Queens Pride House
76-11 37th Avenue, Suite 206
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(718) 429-5309
http://www.queenspridehouse.org/
New York, 15 March 2011 -- Queens Pride House, the borough's only lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community center, is calling for strong action in response to a hate crime that took place ...
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Libya, Gaddafi & the London School of Economics
Libya, Gaddafi
& the London School of Economics
Of the three universities I've attended, I have a special affection for the the London School of Economics, where I did my master's degree in 1982-83. Needless to say, I was as shocked as the rest of LSE's alumni to discover that the alma mater I hold dear had taken ...
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Mongolian Courage & LGBT Community
Anaraa Nyamdorj & Munkhzaya Nergui
of the Mongolian LGBT Centre
with Pauline Park at the 2011 Celebration of Courage
Mongolian Courage & LGBT Community
Advocating on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender is difficult work everywhere; but imagine doing LGBT activism in the face of death threats. That's precisely what the members of the staff and board ...
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Parking rights: Pauline Park is fighting for transgender rights (NY Blade, 7.18.03)
Parking Rights
Pauline Park is fighting for transgender rights
By Kevin Allison
New York Blade
Friday, July 18, 2003
Late one night, years ago, Pauline Park squeezed onto an E train to Queens in a burgundy gown. A man shoved past, selling batteries. When he saw Park, he was disgusted. “If you’re a man, dress like a man!” he yelled. ...
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Proto-Transgenderal & Homoerotic Traditions in Asia & the Pacific
Proto-Transgenderal & Homoerotic Traditions
in Pre-Modern Asian & Pacific Island Societies
by Pauline Park
presentation at the Asian American & Pacific Islander
pre-conference institute
Creating Change 2011
Minneapolis
3 February 2011
There is a very wide misconception that 'lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender' (LGBT) constitutes a purely modern phenomenon created by late nineteenth and early twentieth century sexologists and activists. In fact, every pre-modern ...
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Drama Queen
Links to some of my favorite dramas on television and film.
Brideshead Revisited
(ITV, 1983)
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0nrC-vfaY
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1S3LBDT3vk&feature=related
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSKlsIaoWY&feature=related
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehY-9B_p2M&feature=related
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P6W7txlEtA&feature=related
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp_X0rDtvU8&feature=related
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOhhLWUESHk&NR=1
Brideshead Revisited Episode 1 PART 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65curvvd39k&feature=related
Brideshead Revisited Episode ...
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