For as long as I can remember, Sara Boesser has sent her NEWS round-up from Juneau every week, sharing an interesting mix of local, national and international items with a list of friends, allies and LGBT community members. Sara is also the author of Silent Lives: How High a Price? I’m pleased to welcome Sara and her NEWS to Bent Alaska!

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1) Join Alaskan contingent marching in DC on October 11

If you are or were an Alaskan resident (or friend of one) and want to march with other Alaskans at the National March on Washington on October 11, 2009, email Mo to join up.

2) Lesbian Couple to Hold First Gay Marriage in Swaziland

Manzini, Swaziland, Times of Swaziland, August 30,2009

3) Statement on Changing Sexual Orientation

National Black Justice Coalition, August 9, 2009

4) Are You a Transgender Individual Who Was Born in Alaska?

Please contact Tiffany McClain at the ACLU of Alaska

Alaska, AkCLU, August 25, 2009

5) Wis. A.G. Refuses to Defend D.P. Law

Madison, Wisconsin, Advocate, August 24, 2009

6) Iceland’s Lesbian PM Makes Forbes List

Iceland, Advocate, August 26, 2009

7) Kennedy was our ‘greatest champion’ says gay activist

Washington, CNN, August 27, 2009

8) Group that opposes gay marriage now targeting Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa, Associated Press, August 26, 2009

9) Hermaphrodite: Hollywood’s goddess of beauty

Brisbane Times, August 27, 2009

10) Doctors “playing God with children’s sex”

Switzerland, SwissInfo, August 26, 2009 .

11) New impetus for bill banning anti-gay bias at work

Washington, 365Gay.com, August 27, 2009

12) Washington Post Profiles NOM Leader

Advocate, August 28, 2009

13) Judge nixes suit that created rift between Obama, gays

Santa Ana, Calif., Washington Blade, August 28, 2009

14) Hugh Hefner, Gay Rights Pioneer

Advocate, August 28, 2009

15) First openly gay Episcopalian bishop: Faith a key to civil-rights struggle

Utah, Salt Lake Tribune, August 21, 2009

16) Eliot revealed as defender of lesbian fiction

U.K., The Independent, August 30, 2009