Articles by E. Ross
E. Ross is the founder of Bent Alaska.
Pride Foundation Fall 2008 Grants Available to Alaskan Non-Profits
- In a wide range of programmatic areas including education, advocacy, and outreach; HIV/AIDS education and support; arts and recreation; youth and family services; lesbian health; and other health and community services.
- A balance of projects among those that serve women, men, and all inclusively. Projects serving communities of color are especially encouraged.
- In diverse geographic areas in the Northwest states, both urban and rural. Regional Community grants applications must operate within the geographic area specified in that application.
- An organization must have 501(c)3 non-profit tax status or be affiliated with an organization that has 501(c)3 tax status that will assume fiscal responsibility for all funds received and expended.
- Projects or programs must directly benefit the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual community; people affected by HIV/AIDS; and/or their friends and families.
- Organizations or projects must operate within one or more of the Northwest states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
- Grants to individuals cannot be considered.
- Maximum Grant Award is $5,000 for Pride Foundation Northwest grants. This amount varies for Pride Regional Community grants.
- Pride Foundation grants are not meant to convey a commitment to ongoing funding. A grant in one year does not make it any more likely that an agency will be funded in the future.
- Organizations can apply for only one grant and one project per cycle.
- Organizations that apply for a grant from Pride Foundation Clark, Pierce and Whatcom-Skagit Regional Communities may also be considered for a grant from the Northwest granting fund. Please note that if you apply for a grant for the same portion of a project/program from these Regional Communities and Northwest Grants, you will not be awarded funds from both. Organizations with projects in other Regional Communities cannot apply to Pride Foundation Northwest Grants.
Mr/Ms/Miss Gay Anchorage 2008
Alaska Ranks High in Chlamydia, Low in HIV Rates
This Week in GLBT Alaska
- Ride the ICOAA Float in the July 4th Parade. Come to the staging area at 8th Avenue and H Street by 10:30 a.m.
- MCC July 4th Cook Out 7/4, 2-6 p.m. RSVP to Edie.
- MCC Sunday worship speaker this week is Ron Swartz 7/6, 2 p.m.
- The Bac’untry Bruthers All Night Dragtime Revue is playing at the Taproot Cafe on 7/8, 7 p.m.
- ICOAA General Meeting, Wed 7/9, 6 p.m. at Mad Myrna’s.
Gay Ally Howard Bess Retires From Church, Stays Active in Community
"Rising Star" Director Peter DuBois Honed Skills at Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre
Ben Bohen, his partner of 11 years, will keep their Brooklyn apartment as DuBois sets up another home in Boston for the Huntington job. They plan on commuting, but it won’t be as difficult as when DuBois moved to Alaska to become artistic director of Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre.“Ben finally came out to visit for the month of December,” said DuBois, “which is one of the hardest months to be there, and he said, ‘OK, I’ll make the leap.’ We lived together there for four years before I got the call from the Public.”“Even in Alaska, which is an incredibly conservative state, I actually was very consciously keeping myself out [as a gay man] because it’s a part of my identity that I’m really proud of.”
Before being recruited to the Public, DuBois was artistic director of Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. A mid-sized regional company, Perseverance is hailed for distinctive artistic boldness, innovation, and a dedication to its community and its audience. There, DuBois directed revivals of Beckett, Shakespeare, and Chekhov, and introduced modern-day works by Paula Vogel, Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.
In a bold move to the furthermost reaches of the United States, DuBois took over where Perseverance founder Molly Smith had left off. It was at Perseverance that he honed his institution-building skills, cutting debt and raising $2.5 million in capital and endowment campaigns to make Perseverance Alaska’s largest producing arts organization. He also brokered a relationship with the University of Alaska Southeast in which Perseverance would assume responsibility for all theater education activities at the college, offering minors to its students.DuBois ran Perseverance from 1998 to 2003, beginning to make a reputation for himself as an up and coming American artist and institutional leader.
“I’ve developed relationships at the Public and living in Europe and even in Alaska that are relationships that I plan to be bringing to the Huntington Theatre, and I think the programming is going to represent a really diverse range of what theater means.”
Congratulations, Peter!
This Week in GLBT Alaska
- IAA Raffle Drawing 6/27, 7 p.m. At the International “Big I” Bar.
- GLBT Bowling, Wednesdays 9 p.m. at the Arctic Bowl, all ages.
- SEAGLA Social Fridays, 6-8 p.m. Imperial Bar and Billiards, 241 Front Street in Downtown Juneau.
- Extended hours for Free HIV Testing at various locations, for National HIV Testing Week, thru 6/28. Contact Lee Wagner, Southeast Outreach Specialist for Four A’s. lwagner@alaskanaids.org
- Bac’untry Bruthers at Duggan’s Pub 6/28 at 10 p.m.
- Pride Week! 6/21-6/29
- Pride Fest Film Festival at Out North, thru 6/28. 5, 7 & 9 p.m. $6.50 online, $7 at the door. Films and showtimes at www.outnorth.org.
- Mr/Ms/Miss Gay 2008-2009 Anchorage Pageant 6/27, 9 p.m. Mad Myrna’s. $10.
- Lipstick la’Femme Review featuring Silva Stone 6/27-6/28, 10 p.m. at the Kodiak Bar & Grill. $5 cover
- Pride Dance Party with Ever Ready at The Raven 6/28, 6-10 p.m. 708 E. 4th Avenue. No cover, 21 & over.
- Allie’s 9th Annual Slave for a Date Auction 6/28, 9 p.m. Proceeds go to ACLU of Alaska Foundation. Mad Myrna’s. $4 cover, 21 & over.
- Naughty Nurses-Dirty Doctors Party, 6/28 at 9 p.m. Out@Night (4600 Old Seward) no cover.
- AUUF Gay Pride Sunday 6/29, 10:45 a.m. Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. 3201 Turnagain St.
- MCC Pride Service 6/29, 2 p.m. St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church (corner of Duben Ave. & Oklahoma St. in NE Anchorage)
- The Last Frontier Men’s Club presents End of Pride BBQ 6/29, 4-6 p.m. Alaska Bear Co. behind Mad Myrna’s (530 E 5th Ave) $5, all ages.