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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 ...
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, New York City, Queens, Queens Pride House
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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 ...
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 No Commented
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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 ...
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 No Commented
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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 ...
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 No Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, New York City, Queens, Queens Pride House
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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 ...
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 No Commented
Categorized Under: arts and culture, Politics
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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 ...
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 2 Commented
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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. ...
Thursday, February 10th, 2011 one Commented
Categorized Under: LGBT, New York City, NYAGRA, Politics, Queens, Transgender Rights
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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 ...
Saturday, January 29th, 2011 one Commented
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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 ...
Saturday, January 29th, 2011 No Commented
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Moments Musicaux

As Julie Andrews says in "The Sound of Music," these are a few of my favorite things -- music that I love to listen to. Renaissance & Baroque Fra Pietro da Hostia, Un Cavalier di Spagna (La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Hespérion XXI - Jordi Savall, director) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejWtsDJiYP0&feature=related Francesco Patavino, Un Cavalier di Spagna (Marco Beasley & l'Arpeggiata) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwQatscpmmg&feature=related ...
Monday, January 24th, 2011 No Commented
Categorized Under: arts and culture, music
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Moving Forward forum on LGBT human rights & the UN (1.21.11)

A Panel Discussion: MOVING FORWARD: Where are LGBTI/SOGI Human Rights going at the UN? 1‐3 p.m. Friday, January 21 Conference Room, 10th Floor Church Center 777 United Nations Plaza Featuring: Charles Radcliffe, Chief of Global Issues, OHCHR Cheikh Traore, Senior Advisor for Sexual Diversity, UNDP Selly Thiam, Executive Director, None on Record Pauline Park, Chair, NY Association for Gender Rights Advocacy Hassan El Menyawi, Visiting Professor, UN University For More Information Please Contact Bruce Knotts @: ...
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 No Commented
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Queens Pride House names new interim executive director (1.11.11)

Daniel Castellanos to Step Down as Executive Director of Queens Pride House, Which Names Peter N. Pavich Interim Executive Director FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more info., contact: Pauline Park 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, 11 January 2011 -- On January 16, Daniel Castellanos will step down as executive director ...
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 No Commented
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