Pauline Park

Dolly Parton was our fairy godmother by Pauline Park Dolly Parton died of cancer on 25 August 2026.

Sheela Lambert and the Coalition for Unity & Inclusion By Pauline Park Sheela Lambert (1956 – 2024) was a native New Yorker and a bisexual activist and writer.

Lindsey Graham: death of a Zionist warmonger by Pauline Park Lindsey Graham’s death in July 2026 prompted a flood of unctuous claptrap from both his right-wing confederates and the corporate media as well as expressions of celebration from many progressiv…

Ludwig II: Bavaria’s Mad Castle King Was Also a Mad Opera Queen by Pauline Park Ask someone to picture a castle and the one that will come first to mind for many if not most people is Neuschwanstein; perhaps they might think of the castle in the middle of…

LGBTQ activists make history marching for Palestine in the Queens Pride Parade (6.7.26) By Pauline Park One could not tell from media coverage of the 2026 Queens Pride Parade — even in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) media — but the…

CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy June 4 Lavender Graduation commencement speech Pauline Park City University of New York 4 June 2026 I am honored to be invited to address Lavender Graduation here at the CUNY Graduate School of Public…

Friedrich der Große: What Made Prussia’s Frederick II So Great by Pauline Park Frederick II (1712-1786) has gone down in history as ‘Friedrich der Große’; but was he really so great?

Queering the Struggle Against Israeli Apartheid: Creating Change 2026 Pauline Park, chair New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA) I am delighted to facilitate a workshop as part of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Association’s A…

Ivo van Hove’s Met “Don Giovanni” strives (rather unnecessarily) for relevance by Pauline Park “Don Giovanni” is considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written and while I do not think one can single out one opera for that distinction, Wolfgang…

Skrmetti & the New York Times: the consequences of the misapprehension of transgender identity & transgender movement politics by Pauline Park (photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro for the New York Times) I’m posting the full text of this article not…

Cixi & Qing China Cixi is by any standard the most remarkable woman in the history of China; the Empress Wu was the only woman to rule China in her own name but little is concretely documented about the Tang dynasty Imperatrix; in contrast, Cixi’s rule has

Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City by Pauline Park Eric Adams is the most incompetent and corrupt mayor in the history of New York City; the only good news is that his reign of error will be coming to an end in January 2026.