About Pauline Park:

As an orphan born in Korea in a year of revolution, Pauline Park was adopted and raised in the Midwest. She did her master's degree at the London School of Economics and later studied German in Berlin and in Regensburg, where she lived in a medieval tower in the ancient heart of that Bavarian city. Park did her dissertation research in Brussels and Paris for her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She came out as an openly transgendered woman after moving to New York City.

In June 1998, Park co-founded the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA), the first statewide transgender advocacy organization in New York. Park led the campaign for passage of Int. No. 24, the transgender rights ordinance enacted by the New York City Council as Local Law 3 of 2002. She served on the working group that helped to draft guidelines -- adopted by the Commission on Human Rights in December 2004 -- for implementation of the new statute. Park negotiated inclusion of gender identity and expression in the Dignity for All Students Act (DASA), a safe schools bill currently pending in the New York state legislature, and the first fully transgender-inclusive legislation introduced in that body. She also serves on the steering committee of the coalition that secured enactment of the Dignity in All Schools Act by the New York City Council in September 2004. Park was the first openly transgendered individual chosen to be a grand marshal of the New York City Pride March, serving in that capacity in the 2006 Pride March.

Park co-founded Queens Pride House (a center for the LGBT communities of Queens) in January 1997, Iban/Queer Koreans of New York (Iban/QKNY) in February 1997, and the Guillermo Vasquez Independent Democratic Club of Queens (GVIDCQ) in July 2002. She also participated in the founding of the Out People of Color Political Action Club (OutPOCPAC) in April 2001. Park serves on the board of directors of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) and on the advisory board of Asian Pacific Islanders for Human Rights (APIHR). She has written widely on LGBT issues and has conducted transgender sensitivity training sessions for a wide range of social service providers and community-based organization.

Pauline Park in the media & on the web

"Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman"
(documentary by Larry Tung about the life and work of Pauline Park)
http://www.larrytung.com/documentary-envisioning-justice.html

"Envisioning Justice: The Journey of A Transgendered Woman" at NewFest 2008
(New York LGBT Film Festival)
http://filmguide.newfest.org/tixSYS/2008/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=1611

"Envisioning Justice: The Journey of A Transgendered Woman" at Frameline 2008
(San Francisco LGBT Film Festival)
http://www.frameline.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=1415&FID=42

Pauline Park on the NewFest 2008 documentary feature jury
http://www.newfest.org/cgi-bin/iowa/static.html?record=56

Remembering Lawrence King An emotional West Village vigil marks the national Day of Silence and a slain teenager (Alina Oswald, New York Blade 04.25.08)
www.nyblade.com/2008/4-25/news/localnews/1217Silence.cfm

Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference (By Marti Abernathey, Bilerico.com, 4.9.08)
bilerico.com/2008/04/changing_hearts_and_minds_the_2008_ifge.php

Changing Hearts and Minds: The 2008 IFGE Conference (By Marti Abernathey, Transadvocate.com, 4.9.08)
transadvocate.com/ifge/changing-hearts-and-minds-the-2008-ifge-conference.htm

We're All Transsexuals Now (LadyBunny.net, 3.19.08)
http://ladybunny.net/blog/2008/03/were-all-transsexuals-now.html

Adoption Dialogues (RadicalDoula.com, 2.16.08)
radicaldoula.com/2008/02/16/adoption-dialogues

Unusual perks: Goldman Sachs covers sex changes (By Althea Chang, Fortune Magazine, CNN Money.com, 2.8.08)
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/08/news/companies/gender.fortune/index.htm

Becoming a Black Man (By Daisy Hernández, ColorLines, 1.2.08)
colorlines.com/article

Queens Pride House Celebrates (Gay City News, 12.20.07)
gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19133548

New York Welcome, Reps from HRC get an earful at a town hall on ENDA (Housing Works AIDS Issues Update 12.7.07)
hwupdate.org/update/2007/12/new_york_welcome.html

No Gotham Welcome Wagon For HRC (Gay City News, 12.6.07)
gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm

Gallery of Gaysian Heroes: Pauline Park, Activist (QueerSighted Gay & Lesbian Community)
queersighted.com
www.queersighted.com/gallery/gay-asian-heroes/429032/

Coming Out in Color: Pauline Park
(Bloggernista.com, 10.11.07)
http://bloggernista.com/2007/10/11/coming-out-in-color-pauline-park/

Transgendered
(description of Montel Williams show segment, 9.20.07)
http://www.montelshow.com/show/detail/5204/

NYC Birth Certificate Policy Unfair to Transgendered
(op-ed with Dennis DeLeon, New York Blade, 9.7.07)
http://www.nyblade.com/2007/9-7/viewpoint/opinion/trans.cfm

Pauline Park (profile and interview)
(By Brianna Austin, TGlife.com, 8.28.07)
http://www.tglife.com

Finding the Real Me
(By Xiaoqing Rong, Sing Tao Daily, 8.27.07)
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/

Varied Voices
(By David Noh, Gay City News, 6.8.07)
http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18450161

Trans Health Fair Debuts at Center
(By Brett Krutzsch, New York Blade, 6.01.07)
http://www.nyblade.com/2007/6-1/news/localnews/healthfair.cfm

Gender Offender, NewFest film to screen despite outcry from trans activists
(By Michael K. Lavers, New York Blade, 6.01.07)
http://www.nyblade.com/2007/6-1/news/localnews/transscifi.cfm

Trans Health Fair Debuts at Center
(By Brett Krutzsch, New York Blade, 6.1.2007)
http://www.nyblade.com/2007/5-11/news/localnews/localnews.cfm

Crossing the Line: Korean American transgender people step beyond cultural stigmas to share their stories
(By Michelle Woo, KoreAm Journal, June 2007)
koreamjournal.com/Magazine/index.php/kj/2007/june/feature_story/crossing_the_line/

Clocking in on Trans Bias
(GCN, 5.24.2007)
http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18384299

MHVTA, Mid Hudson Valley Transgender Assoc.
Poughkeepsie , N.Y. USA
http://www.ren.org/rafil/MHVTA/index.htm

New Yorkers Join National Fight for Trans Equality
(By Brett Krutzsch, NY Blade, 5.18.2007)
http://www.nyblade.com/2007/5-18/news/localnews/transfight.cfm

A Case for Trans Equality
(New York Blade, 5.11.2007)
http://www.nyblade.com/2007/5-11/news/localnews/localnews.cfm

"2007 Mazzoni Center Trans-Health Conference Tremendous Success."
(excerpt from the Mazzoni Center newsletter, 2007)
Mazzoni.pdf

Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Celebrates Second Anniversary
(Boy in Bushwick, 5.10.2007)
http://bushwickboy.blogspot.com/2007/05/transgender-legal-defense-and-education.html

Dignity for All
(By Jacob Anderson-Minshall, San Francisco Bay Times, 5.10.2007)
http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=6387

Pauline Park: Standing Up for Transgender Rights
(Interview with Celia De Leon for Feministing.com, 2.3.2007)
http://feministing.com/archives/006457.html

Legal Sex Change?
(Victoria Baranetsky, www.nyc24.org, 5.2007)
http://www.nyc24.org/2007/health/policy/1/

Dignity for All, TransNation
(Jacob Anderson-Minshall, San Francisco Bay Times, 5.10.2007)
http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=6387

Thompson Broadens Gender Effort
(By Paul Schindler, Gay City News, 1.4.07)
http://gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17671313

Gender Change Rule Eyed
(By Amy Zimmer, Metro New York, 11.08.06)
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Gender_change_rule_eyed/5583.html

Revisions Likely in Birth Certificate Policy
(By Paul Schindler, Gay City News, 11.02.06)
http://gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17415721

St. John's University: Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies: Fourth Adoption Conference: "Families Without Borders? Adoption Across Culture and Race"
(10.13.2006): paper presentation on LGBT issues in intercountry adoption:
http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/centers/psychology/ev_psych_061013.sju

Nothing but silence - Day of Silence promotes LGBT awareness
(By By Meghan O'Kelly, 04.27.06)
http://media.www.dailyillini.com

See, Hear, Speak No Evil: City school officials passive, mute during public hearings on bullying
(Andy Humm, GCN, 8.11.2005)
http://www.gaycitynews.com

Enthusiasm Competes With Complacency: Community leaders urge activism, but some at Bryant Park rally admit fervor has cooled
(Cody Lyon, GCN, 6.23.2005)
http://www.gaycitynews.com

Transgender Group Reaches Agreement on Restrooms
(By Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 4.2.05):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/nyregion/02restroom.html

Ladies Restrooms: Who is That Male-Bodied Woman In the Next Stall?
(Traditional Values Coalition, 4.7.2005):
http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2215

Just Couples talk
(10.3.2004):
http://www.justcouples.org/Diary.shtml

Frank Copeli interview about Jackson Heights:
http://web.honorscollege.cuny.edu/student-projects/neighborhoods/jackson_heights/int_4.html

N.J. Trans Group Returns Grant, Group alleges Human Rights Campaign ignores needs of transgendered people
(By Nicholas Boston, Gay City News, 6.18.2004)
http://gaycitynews.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17005679

Dignity Coalition Voices Concerns
(by Nicholas Boston, Gay City News, 6.17.2004)
http://gaycitynews.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17005667

Trans protection compromised? Two years after law was passed, commission still has no guidelines
(Cyd Zeigler, Jr., New York Blade News, 5.28.2004)
http://www.nyblade.com/print.cfm?content_id=1593

Squabble Over Student Dignity Bill: City Department of Education questions authority, enforcement
(Aaron Parsley, GCN, 10.9.2003)

An Historic Meeting of Asian LGBTs: May 8 forum at Center examines agenda, looks toward national advocacy voice
(Mick Meenan, GCN, 5.16.2003)
http://www.gaycitynews.com

Transgendered people gaining acceptance in gay and lesbian community
(Soyoung Ho, Columbia News Service, 7.7.2002):
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-07-07/416.asp

In Her Own Image: Transgender Activist Pauline Park
(The Gully, 7.2.2002):
http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/020702_transgender_p_park.html

Bloomberg Set to Sign Transgender Rights Law
(By Paul Schindler, Lesbian & Gay New York (LGNY), 4.27.2002)
RightsLaw.pdf

The crying game
(By Nina Siegal, Salon.com News, 6.20.01)
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/20/milan/print.html

NYAGRA participation in ESPA lobby day
(letter to LGNY, 05.2000)
ESPAlobby.pdf