Queering Chinatown: the first LGBT contingent in New York’s lunar new year parade makes history
Leading the LGBT contingent in the 2010 Chinese lunar new year parade… On 21 February 2010, we made history, as the first […]
Transgendering the Academy
Transgendering the Academy: Transforming the Relationship Between Theory and Praxis Pauline Park, Ph.D. Chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) […]
OutPOCPAC calls for expulsion of Senator Hiram Monserrate
In 2009, Sen. Hiram Monserrate was convicted on a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pauline Park […]
NYAGRA on LGBT-inclusive 2010 Chinese lunar new year parade
Patrick Cheng‘s mother reads a statement in Chinese in support of her son and the LGBT/queer API community at the QAPI press […]
NYC Transgender Activists Push Human Rights Amendment
Simplicity That Should Strike Everyone Pauline Park leads the charge at City Hall. (photo lgny) NYC Transgender Activists Push Human Rights Amendment […]
NYAGRA history: 2000
Tom Duane Melissa Sklarz NYAGRA history: 2000 With the crisis over Chelsea Goodwin’s membership — and that of her partner, Rusty Mae […]
NYAGRA history: 1999
Chelsea Goodwin NYAGRA history: 1999 NYAGRA’s first crisis was precipitated by Chelsea Goodwin and Rusty Mae Moore, who joined the working group in […]
NYAGRA history part one: the founding
On the steps of City Hall at the press conference on 29 February 2000 announcing the public launch of the campaign for […]
The Working Families Party: Gay for Pay…?
Jimmy Van Bramer, Tom Duane, Christine Quinn & Danny Dromm When the Working Families Party burst on the scene a decade ago, […]
Music for a while shall all your cares beguile
…an 18th century-style double-keyboard French harpsichord of the sort for which most Baroque keyboard music was written… “Music for a while shall […]
Gov. Paterson signs executive order protecting trans state employees
Gov. David Paterson, Pauline Park of NYAGRA & Michael Silverman of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) (photo courtesy of […]
Iowa: a week of transgender events
Iowa state capitol in Des Moines In November 2009, Iowa commemorated the first Transgender Day of Remembrance in the history of the state, […]