Monthly Archives: June 2009

Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You (poem)

Posted on Wed, 17 June 2009 by Mel Green

Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their leaving — but when you are alone at night … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-16 (Assembly public hearing #2)

Posted on Wed, 17 June 2009 by Mel Green

This automatically-generated compilation of tweets from my Twitter feed all are in regards to the June 16 Anchorage Assembly meeting — public testimony on the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. Later, when I have time, I’ll intergrate them with my liveblog … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging Assembly meeting, June 16 (Assembly public hearing #2)

Posted on Tue, 16 June 2009 by Mel Green

I will be testifying about these studies at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. They are online by following this link:http://www.henkimaa.com/identity/. Liveblogging commences below. I will also be occasionally twittering at http://twitter.com/yksin which also updates my Facebook status.  This is partly to … Continue reading →

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Identity Reports and One in Ten

Posted on Tue, 16 June 2009 by Mel Green

I will be testifying about these studies at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. They are are online by following this link: http://www.henkimaa.com/identity/. Update (6/17/09) I’ve turned this into a “sticky post” so it’ll stay on top for awhile, to make it … Continue reading →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-15

Posted on Mon, 15 June 2009 by Mel Green

Prevo’s attempt to create the next Carrie Prejean? http://bit.ly/oxdtj # Badly in need of more sleep. I’m burning the candle at — uh — how many ends does a candle have, anyway? I think I have >2. # Powered by … Continue reading →

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The new Carrie Prejean?

Posted on Mon, 15 June 2009 by Mel Green

In what looks like another of last Tuesday’s ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.

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God of Mosquitoes (poem)

Posted on Mon, 15 June 2009 by Mel Green

A summertime theology poem featuring “Alaska’s state bird.” I intended to post this a couple days ago, after a conversation with my friend Barbara who told me she was attracted to Buddhism but “I kill mosquitoes.”  I was reminded again … Continue reading →

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Identity Reports & One in Ten — now online!

Posted on Sun, 14 June 2009 by Mel Green

You’ve heard about them — or maybe you haven’t — but now you have. Anyway: now they’re online! As I wrote in my June 2 letter to the Anchorage Assembly: It’s been pointed out that the government maintains no statistics … Continue reading →

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Tributaries (poem)

Posted on Sun, 14 June 2009 by Mel Green

I was offline most of — well, now I’ll say yesterday, Saturday, it now being early in the AM of Sunday the 14th.  Saturday was the kick-off of this year’s PrideFest in Anchorage — the annual women’s show called Celebration … Continue reading →

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Billboards

Posted on Fri, 12 June 2009 by Mel Green

While in 2003 Jerry Prevo decried Westboro Baptist Church tactics, in 2009 he & his allies didn’t hesitate to use children — even some younger then 10 — in a very like way, as billboards for their parents’ prejudices.

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