Saturday, 21 February 2009 – 12:19 AM
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Friday, 20 February 2009 – 11:16 PM
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Check out this week’s events from Alaska GLBT News.
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Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
Mat-Su Valley
Mat-Su LGBT Community Center social support group meetings to discuss LBGT issues in the Valley. Mondays at 2 p.m. and Wednesdays at 5 p.m. Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
Anchorage
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin 2/21 & 2/22, 6 p.m. at the Anchorage Museum, with a discussion after the film on Saturday.
Transgendered Alaskans’ Social Group (TASG), meets Sundays 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the GLCCA.
“Our Journey Through Faith” with Pastor Van Manen, Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. at MCC Anchorage. There is also a Sunday service at 2 p.m.
Thursday, 19 February 2009 – 6:12 PM
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Dan Savage was great – smart, witty, and totally gay – and the diverse crowd at the sold-out show laughed and learned, and clapped when he said, “gay marriage is coming.” How refreshing!
Brother Outsider, the movie about gay black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, is showing this weekend at the Anchorage Museum, sponsored by several local LGBTA groups and the Urban League, an African-American organization. A discussion will follow the film on Saturday night.
Pastor Van Manen wishes to thank the 40 individuals who attended his installation service last Sunday. He was deeply touched at the level of support and encouragement extended to him. Photos of the Consecration and Laying of Hands ceremony are posted on the new-and-improved
MCC Anchorage web site. (Nice work, Matthew.)
Transgendered Alaskans Social Group (TASG) is a new group meeting at the
GLCCA, Sundays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The group is open to MTF and FTM, TG/TS, and their partners, spouses and adult children. The intent of the group is to provide support and education through social networking, in a safe and comfortable environment. Their web site has a great name:
TransAlaska Pipeline VA Mental Health started a Transgender Support group, only for Veterans, on Thursdays at 4 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the VA Clinic on DeBarr Road in Anchorage. Check in at the reception desk.
Have you tied the knot?
Identity wants to print your same-sex wedding picture in
The NorthView, their quarterly bulletin. Please send pictures and a short commitment announcement to the
NorthView editor.
The theme for the 2009 Women’s Summit in Juneau on March 18-20 is
Health Care Access: Do Women in Alaska Have Choices? A work session with Senator Hollis French on Universal Health Care will include “comprehensive reproductive health care coverage for all women, gay or straight,” writes Geran Tarr of the
Alliance for Reproductive Justice. “I think this includes the issue of domestic partner benefits too. It will be important for Senator French to hear from the group about the comprehensive needs of all women.” What other lesbian health care issues do you think are important?
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 – 11:39 PM
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1st Place ($500, publication and an invite to read at Celebration) – Frayed Yellow Rope by Wendy Withrow
2nd Place ($300) – She Remembers on a Cold Summer Day by Brianna Dym
3rd Place (tie, $50 each) – Tomorrow by Alix Layton and Gestures by Marilyn Conner
Honorable Mentions –
The Crinoline Revolution or Searching for Regina’s Vagina by Terrilyn F. Watts
Moving Mountains by S.P. Horton
The Thing That Killed Her by Karis Koett
Pathways of Desire by Jean Anderson
Holding Pattern by EJ Essic
Thunderstorm by Annette Baker
Congratulations to everyone who submitted a story!
Celebration of Change, Radical Arts for Women’s annual performing arts event and fundraiser, is June 13, 2009 in the Wilda Marston Theater at Loussac Library in Anchorage. Visit
RAW for more information and to get involved.
The Naked Ptarmigan, the queer Alaska journal that published several of last year’s contest stories, is now accepting
email submissions year-round.
William Saltonstall, a former Massachusetts state senator who died last month at the age of 81, was an outspoken ally of LGBT equality, in part because of his daughter and grandson who live in Palmer.
Saltonstall was a staunch Republican who served in the legislature from 1966 to 1978. He became an
advocate for LGBT rights in the last decade of his life.
In 2000, he began speaking out against opponents of gay adoption and same-sex marriage. He wrote letters, donated money and lobbied for marriage equality. In 2006, Saltonstall changed his party affiliation to democrat. “I’ve been active in the gay rights movement, because my daughter is gay – she lives in Alaska – and the party has not been favorable to people like her,” he told the Boston Globe.
Abigail, her partner Chris and their three children live in Palmer and own
Half Moon Creek art gallery in Anchorage.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 – 5:36 PM
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Art, politics, entertainment, sports, religion – share your knowledge of LGBT Alaska on the blog. Interview your friends, review our shows, give good advice or spread outrageous rumors! It’s time to expand the blog and bring in more writers who represent different voices within our community. Send your ideas to
Bent Alaska and see your byline on line. Thanks!
Sunday, 8 February 2009 – 6:53 PM
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Alaskans can go online to apply for the PFD and support our favorite Alaska non-profits with just a click. It’s a chance for all of us to come together and give a little extra.
To donate all or part of your PFD,
apply online then choose the groups you would like to support. The filing period continues through March 31, 2009.
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2009 on aims to get Black Americans educated about the basics of HIV/AIDS, get tested to know their HIV status, get involved in their community around the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and get treated if they are living with HIV/AIDS.
Because “Black Life Is Worth Saving!”
For AIDS testing and information in Alaska, contact Four A’s in Anchorage and Juneau, and Interior AIDS Assoc. in Fairbanks.
Friday, 6 February 2009 – 12:11 PM
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Check out this week’s events from Alaska GLBT News.
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Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
SEAGLA Night at the Theatre: Shakespeare’s R&J, 2/6, 7:30 p.m. by Thunder Mountain Theatre Project, at the The Old Elk’s Hall. Tickets at Hearthside Books.
Fairbanks
PFLAG Fairbanks meeting to discuss the proposed School Board policy change 2/8, 4 p.m.
Mat-Su Valley
Mat-Su LGBT Community Center social support group meetings to discuss LBGT issues in the valley. Mondays at 2 p.m. and Wednesdays at 5 p.m. Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
Anchorage
Sweet at Out North Theater begins 2/6, 7 p.m. for the Off the Rocks Theater Project.
Equality Works Steering Committee meeting at the GLCCA, 2/7, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Alaska Rainbows monthly dinner 2/7, 5-7 p.m.
LGBT Town Hall to End Discrimination in Anchorage 2/11, 7 p.m. at Immanuel Presbyterian Church. Equality Works
Dan Savage: Savage Love Live! 2/12, 7:30 p.m. at UAA’s Wendy Williamson Auditorium. General Public $10, free for students with UAA ID. UAATix.
An Electro Affair with Kilogram and Grym 2/12, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5 at the door. Mad Myrna’s.
If you read Alaska GLBT News, you already know that Dan Savage, an openly-gay author of a popular sex-advice column, is coming to Anchorage on Feb. 12 to present Savage Love Live, a talk followed by audience questions on anything and everything sexual.
Feb. 12, the day of the Anchorage show, is also national Freedom to Marry Day. Savage and his partner were married in Canada in 2005, and Dan is a strong advocate of LGBT equality.
Today’s Anchorage Press, the alternative weekly that carries the Savage Love column, ran an interview with Dan:
“‘[H]homophobia, like racism, is a pastime of the ignorant and elderly. And the elderly are leaving us. They want to take a snapshot of this moment in time and lock in these prejudices, and make them hard to undo. But they’re losing ground. We’re moving the ball down the field and we’re winning. It’s just… Canada got the French; Australia got the convicts; we got the fuckin’ Puritans.'”
See Savage Love Live at UAA’s Wendy Williamson Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 12. Students with a UAA ID get in free. General Public tickets are $10 and are available at UAATix.
