| Abstract: |
The Pauline Park Papers contains material from 1986-2015 documenting the advocacy,
activism, and writing of Pauline Park, a transgender activist, speaker, writer, and
educator. A large portion of the collection contains material from the New York Association
for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) and Queens Pride House (QPH) two organizations
that Park helped co-found, in 1998 and 1997, respectively, and lead. Park campaigned
for the transgender rights law enacted by the New York City Council in 2002, and in
2005 became the first openly transgender grand marshal of the New York City Pride
March. Park has been the keynote speaker at many LGBT and Asian American conferences
and events held in the United States. She has written extensively about arts and culture,
music, spirituality, politics, theatre, race, and LGBT health and rights. Her writing
has been published in journals, newspapers, and newsletters. This collection contains
materials on subjects such as transgender health, identity, community, and public
policy, and includes correspondence, board meeting minutes, photographs, VHS tapes,
conference name badges, certificates, audio recordings, original poetry and creative
writing, notes, speeches, flyers and programs for events and conferences related to
QPH and NYAGRA, press featuring Park, and letters to politicians and allied organizations
advocating the passage of LGTBQ inclusion and non-discrimination legislation.
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