Jackson Heights: Beyond ‘Diversity’
Jackson Heights: Beyond ‘Diversity’ by Pauline Park Jackson Heights is the most diverse neighborhood in Queens, the most diverse county in the […]
Howie Hawkins vs. Andrew Cuomo in the 2014 New York governor’s race
Howie Hawkins: why I’m endorsing him for governor over Andrew Cuomo by Pauline Park In November, New Yorkers across the state will […]
transgender usage: 5 misunderstandings about ‘transgendered’
transgender usage: 5 misunderstandings about ‘transgendered’ by Pauline Park And so the great nomenclature debate continues… I have already written about the […]
ESPA dishonors the LGBT community by honoring Chris Quinn & Louis Bradbury
ESPA dishonors the LGBT community by honoring Chris Quinn & Louis Bradbury By Pauline Park The Empire State Pride Agenda Foundation honored […]
10 books that helped shape my life
10 books that helped shape my life I’ve had two different friends ask me to post to Facebook a list of 10 […]
UIUC termination of Steven Salaita: my open letter to the chancellor
14 August 2014 Chancellor Phyllis Wise Office of the Chancellor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Swanlund Administration Building 601 E. John St. […]
Gaza mourns in angst & pain
The unprecedented assault on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military this week brought to mind a hymn whose text was […]
Pride, Inc.: the corporatization of our pride parades
Wal-Mart Pride in the Cincinnati Pride Parade I’m reading through the 2014 New York City Pride March ‘order of march’ list and […]
NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) & Brooklyn Pride 2014
NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) marched in the 2014 Brooklyn Pride Parade on June 14. NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid with […]
Burgundy & the Four Great Dukes of the West
Rogier Van der Weyden’s only surviving miniature depicts Duke Philip the Good & his son Charles (the future ‘Charles the Bold’) receiving the […]
Gauguin: exoticization, primitivism & paganism
“‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses,’ which opens on Friday at MoMA in New York, recasts the artist as an altogether darker figure, closer to Edvard […]
LGBT rights & the gay gene hypothesis
“If there are male-loving and female-loving alleles of tens or hundreds of genes battling it out in the population, everyone will inherit […]