Monthly Archives: June 2009

Assembly report 2: June 9 public testimony

So yes, finally I have a little time to write up my account of last Tuesday’s public hearing before the Anchorage Assembly on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. In the parking lot I got there pretty early … Continue reading

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Outside influence

Why are Mat-Su residents being bused into Anchorage to testify on Anchorage’s equal rights ordinance?

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Assembly report 1

This is just a quickie, I’ll write a longer post later. It was a long night last night, but not actually a horrific one. I gathered from occasional checks of email & Twitter with my iPod Touch from within chambers … Continue reading

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See you tonight

I exhausted myself a couple of nights ago, & if there’s one thing I’ve learned about me & exhaustion: I’ve gotta take care of it first, before I can take care of anything else. And so for the last couple … Continue reading

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Keeping the T in LGBT

[See also my previous post on this topic, We are all, or none.] Well, now, short shrift has certainly been given to pollster Ivan Moore’s idea (posted on June 4 at 4:00 PM in comments on the web-posted version of … Continue reading

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Goldilocks & the Three Bears: A Retelling

A tragic tale of bears, identity theft, & a blonde gone terribly, terribly wrong.

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We are all, or none

Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove “gender identity” and “gender expression” from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance — in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won’t throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I’m not alone.

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Equality Works Sets the Record Straight

I didn’t write this: Equality Works did. But given the misinformation floating about, I think it’s worth reposting. Tip o’ the nib to Bent Alaska. Equality Works Seeks Truthful Discussion on Proposed Ordinance, Sets Record Straight on Mayor’s Proposal to … Continue reading

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Literal (poem)

A sonnet about magpies.

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My letter to the Anchorage Assembly

My letter to the Anchorage Municipal Assembly and Acting Mayor Matt Claman in support of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which would add “sexual orientation” and “veteran status” to those classes already included in Title V, Anchorage’s equal rights code.

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