Israel, Hobby Lobby, transgender & the Family Research Council I was fascinated to see the most recent ‘prayer targets’ message from the Family Research Council. FRC “bills itself as ‘the leading voice for the family in our nation’s halls of power,’ but its real specialty is defaming gays and lesbians. The FRC often makes false […]
Israel/Palestine & the not-so-United Kingdom “Would a BBC interviewer be willing to hand over half of Britain to people who made a habit of killing Britons? That was the question Habayit Hayehudi chairman Naftali Bennett posed on BBC’s ‘Hard Talk’ on Tuesday, when interviewer Stephen Sackur asked about Bennett’s objection to granting Palestinians sovereignty,” Ha’aretz […]
The author, Pauline Park, at the gap in the separation wall at Al-Wallaja east of the Israeli frontier. (Photo courtesy Park) Pinkwashing & Israeli occupation – not so complicated By Pauline Park Washington Blade January 6, 2014 “The concept of ‘pinkwashing’ emerged as a hot topic throughout the week,” Kevin Naff wrote of his participation as […]
Queens Pride House history: the June 2013 Israel/Palestine forum Queens Pride House has hosted many public forums, quite a few of which I organized. By far the most controversial was “Israel/Palestine is an LGBT issue,” our first-ever forum on Israel and Palestine. Our June 2013 forum might never have come about had it not been for […]
New York State Assembly Member Dov Hikind in blackface for Purim 2013 Dov Hikind, Purim Blackface & the Politics of Israeli Apartheid A photo New York State Assembly Member Dov Hikind in blackface provoked a firestorm of controversy when the Politicker page of the New York Observer posted it on February 25 (Hunter Walker, […]
Gayz Pauline Park Q&A: LGBT Center ‘Gave the Community the Finger’ in ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ Dispute By Steven Thrasher Thu., May 12 2011 at 11:17 AM 60 Comments Categories: Featured, Gayz, Israel, Steven Thrasher Veteran transgender activist Pauline Park — responsible for adding the “T” to Manhattan’s LGBT Center — blasts the center’s controversial decision in March to cave to pressure from pro-Zionist gay-porn impresario Michael Lucas […]
Gays Debate ‘Pinkwashing’ as N.Y. Center Reverses Ban on Israel-Related Events Pro-Israel Advocates Slam Theory as Critics Push Conference Green Light: Sarah Schulman hopes she can now go forward with a talk about her book, which is critical of Israel, at the LGBT Center. By Josh Nathan-Kazis Published February 20, 2013, issue of March 01, 2013. A […]
October 28, 2012 To the Editor: In “Ambitious Facelift Planned for LGBT Community Center” (by Paul Schindler, Oct. 10-23), you report on the Center’s planned $7.5 million renovation and quote executive director Glennda Testone as saying it is part of “a vision for the Center that offers impeccable social services in a setting that everyone […]
Park Slope Food Co-op censors discussion of Israeli ‘pinkwashing’ I was invited to speak at the Park Slope Food Co-op on Israeli ‘pinkwashing,’ but unfortunately, the powers that be cancelled the panel discussion. This is the letter to the Co-op members to be published in the Co-op newspaper. If you are a member, please write […]
Transfeminism Speaking My Truth to Power by Pauline Park Is there a ‘trans feminism’? And if so, what is it? Given that feminism itself is such a charged subject and transgender identity is a contested domain, that question is a productive one even if one not easy to answer. It was in graduate school (1988-94) […]
Der Spiegel, the leading news magazine in Germany, is renowned for the quality of its investigative reporting. On 8 April 2012, the magazine posted to its website an extremely misguided op-ed entitled, “Es ist besser, du stirbst” (“It is better that you die”) under the heading ‘Homosexualität in Palästina’ (Homosexuality in Palestine) by Gil Yaron of Tel Aviv. In his op-ed, Yaron describes […]
Palestine: The First LGBTQ Delegation Tour in PicturesbyPauline Park In January 2012, I participated in the first US LGBTQ delegation tour of Palestine, meeting and speaking with Israelis and Palestinians both in Israel and in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem; after the end of the tour, I stayed a few more days […]