Friday, 30 January 2009 – 11:37 PM
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Two plays of interest to the LGBT community are being performed by the Thunder Mountain Theatre Project in Juneau, this weekend through mid-February: Dying City by Christopher Shinn, and Shakespeare’s R&J, adapted by Joe Calarco.
Shakespeare’s R&J explores issues of sexuality as four boys act out a secret production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to rebell against their oppressive school. Four male actors play all the roles, including the female characters, remaining in their boy’s school uniforms throughout the show. (pictured at right)
Dying City is about the cost of the Iraq war on a dead soldier’s wife and gay twin brother, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The author
Christopher Shinn is a recipient of the Robert S. Chesley Award, which recognizes the work of an emerging gay or lesbian playwright.
Thunder Mountain Theatre Project was founded in 2007 by Flordelino Lagundino. “We choose plays that act as a mirror to society by exploring the social, political, and cultural issues of our time,” says the Project’s
web site. “[W]e seek to provide theatrical experiences for all ages that speak to the rich diversity of our community.”
Dying City & Shakespeare’s R&J will be performed in repertory at the The Old Elk’s Hall, 109 S. Franklin Street, January 29 – February 15, 2009. Tickets are available at Hearthside Books. See the
Thunder Mountain schedule for dates and times.
Friday, 30 January 2009 – 4:37 PM
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Check out this week’s events from Alaska GLBT News.
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NEWS
MILK returns to Anchorage
MILK, the movie based on the life of Harvey Milk, got 8 Academy Award Nominations and is showing at The Bear Tooth this week, Friday-Sunday at 7:50 p.m. and Tuesday-Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Only 6 showings – don’t miss it!
Savage Love Live
Dan Savage will speak at UAA on Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m., answering questions about virginity, orgasms, monogamy, and other “taboo” topics. Students with UAA ID get in free. General Public tickets are $10 and are available now at UAATix.
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
Two Gay-Interest Plays at Thunder Mountain Theatre Project, 1/29-2/15, 7:30 p.m. Dying City by Christopher Shinn, and Shakespeare’s R&J, adapted by Joe Calarco.
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 7 p.m. Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
Anchorage
MILK showing at The Bear Tooth 1/30-2/1 at 7:50 p.m. and 2/3-2/5 at 5:30 p.m.
Gay Rights Dessert & Discussion 1/31, around 10:30 p.m. (after MILK) at the Modern Dwellers Chocolate Lounge.
Alaska Club/ICOAA Open House membership drive 1/31, 4:30 p.m. at Mad Myrna’s.
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 – 6:21 AM
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Do you want Alaska’s public radio and television stations to air programs for Gay Pride Month in June and Gay History Month in Oct?
Would you support a locally hosted LGBT radio show?
Ask and you might receive. The public radio station KSKA is asking listeners to suggest new program ideas, so now is a good time to request LGBT radio shows and topics.
KSKA does not currently broadcast any monthly or weekly gay programs, but they have in the past. They mention LGBT Alaskans about once a year. (
This interview is about the one gay AK story for 2008.)
The radio station is also connected to KAKM, the public television station. KAKM used to air the national LGBT news magazine “In The Life.”
Last April, they aired the documentary “
Anyone & Everyone” with a
half hour response filmed by KTOO in Juneau. That may have been the only LGBT program to air on Alaska’s public television station in 2008.
Public radio and tv stations in other states plan LGBT programming every year for Pride Month in June and
Gay History Month in Oct. Talk show hosts often interview local LGBT organizers before the local PrideFests and National Coming Out Day events.
Friday, 23 January 2009 – 6:54 PM
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This Week in LGBT Alaska 1/23/09
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Saturday: Prayers for Bobby
Prayers for Bobby tells the true story of Mary Griffith, the religious mother of a gay son, and her journey toward embracing the LGBT community following his suicide. Prayers stars Sigourney Weaver and debuts January 24 at 9 p.m. Pacific Time on Lifetime TV.
EVENTS
Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
We’re looking for a location to hold regular Pride Potlucks in Juneau. Contact SEAGLA with suggestions.
Mat-Su Valley
Mat-Su LGBT Community Center social support group meetings, Mondays, 2 p.m. at Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
Anchorage
Ever Ready rocks the AMVETS Post 49 on 1/23 & 1/24, 7-11 p.m.
House Party for “Equality Works” 1/24, 4-6 p.m. RSVP.
Adult Comedy Hypnosis Show 1/24, 9 p.m. Certified hypnotist Jay Her‘s new show, $10 at Mad Myrna’s.
Men’s Club Potluck Dinner 1/25, 6 p.m. at The Raven.
Friday, 16 January 2009 – 3:06 PM
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Womyn’s Dance Survey
Carolyn, who organizes the womyn’s dances, wants to know more about our taste in dance music. She set up a quick
dance survey for Anchorage womyn. Please answer a few questions to make our dances even better.
EVENTS
Juneau
Join SEAGLA for Men’s Movie Night 1/17 at 7 p.m.
SAGA invites Juneau’s GLBT community to a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at UAS on 1/20 at 6 p.m.
Fairbanks
Bac’untry Bruthers will play at the Marlin on 1/16 & 1/17 at 10 p.m., and at the Boatel on 1/18 at 4 p.m.
Anchorage
Group Acupuncture at the GLCCA on 1/16 from 7-9 p.m. (on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.)
Hook up with The Men’s Club for a New Year Saturday Brunch at Humpy’s on 1/17 at 12 noon.
MCC Worship & Meeting on 1/18, Matthew Moak will bring the message. 2 p.m. service, 3 p.m. meeting.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 – 3:39 PM
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The Juneau Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (
JUUF) is asking the LGBT community for help.
The JUUF is working to purchase the historic church building on the corner of 5th and Main Street in downtown Juneau, the second oldest church in the city. The financing plan includes raising at least $125,000 from members and friends.
“JUUF openly welcomes lesbian, gay, and transgender people and honors our contributions to the community and to society,” reads the message from
SEAGLA, the Southeast Alaska Gay and Lesbian Alliance.
SEAGLA members support the Fellowship for several reasons:
- JUUF has been an active voice for equal rights for the LGBT community of Juneau.
- It has been financially supportive of both PFLAG and the Pride Chorus.
- It is a “Red Ribbon Congregation” working toward a world without AIDS.
- JUUF members have marched in the 4th of July parade with a banner that says “Unitarian Universalists are for Equal Rights for Gays.”
How can you help? New donations received before February 1 will be matched more than double their value.
Please send a check to JUUF – Capital Campaign, PO Box 20064, Juneau, AK 99802. Even the smallest contributions at this time will help. Thank you.
Slade, a gay young man in Alaska, takes a lot of photos and creates music video slide shows of himself, his friends and their activities.
Friday, 9 January 2009 – 4:26 PM
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The deadline for the RAW Short Story Contest is next Thursday, Jan. 15. Open to all women living in Alaska. The pieces must be fiction, between 250 and 5,000 words, and contain some lesbian content. For prizes and guidelines, see
Radical Arts for Women.
EVENTS
Juneau
Miniature Golf New Year Social 1/10, 4 p.m. at the JACC. Contact SEAGLA.
Fairbanks
PFLAG’s January Meeting 1/10, 4 p.m.
The Masquerade Ball (show & dance) 1/10, doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. dancing after. Join ICOAA at the Carlson Center.
Anchorage
Sarah Gavit will bring the message at MCC’s Sunday service 1/11, 2 p.m.
PrideFest planning meeting 1/12, 6 p.m. Join Identity and ICOAA in planning Anchorage PrideFest 2009, set for June 14-21.
Step by Step with Rev. Van Manen 1/15, 6: 30 p.m. Fellowship at 6:30 p.m. and class at 7 p.m. Metropolitan Community Church.
Thursday, 8 January 2009 – 12:54 AM
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The GLBT community in Juneau and their friends are invited to play miniature golf for a New Year Social, on Saturday, January 10, at 4 p.m. at the Juneau Arts and Cultural Center.
“The JACC miniature golf course is really incredible, simple to do, and very fun,” said the announcement from
SEAGLA, the Southeast Alaska Gay and Lesbian Alliance. “It will be fun for the whole family.”
SEAGLA has paid for the first hour of golfing, so don’t be late! Pay-your-own-way golfing continues until 6 p.m. for $5 per round of golf.
Participants can make donations to SEAGLA or renew their memberships for 2009, and can make donations toward the cost of the golf course rental, which is a fundraiser for JACC.
The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council web site has a slide show of the JACC sculpture garden
miniature golf course.
SEAGLA also holds Social Fridays from 6-8 p.m. at the Imperial Bar in downtown Juneau. GLBT people and friends over 21 are invited to have a drink and unwind from the work week, meet new people and catch up with friends.
Visit
SEAGLA for more information about GLBT activities in Southeast Alaska.
Monday, 29 December 2008 – 5:30 PM
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The “Yes on 8” campaign has filed legal papers to nullify all 18,000 gay and lesbian marriages performed in California between May and November of 2008.
In response, dozens of families added wedding and holiday photos to a slideshow of same-sex couples who will be divorced if the anti-gay effort succeeds.
The California Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Prop 8 in the spring.
The “Please Don’t Divorce” Project
In response to the threat to gay and lesbian families, The Courage Campaign created an online slideshow of
same-sex married couples, along with friends and relatives who support them.
“It’s time to put a face to the 18,000 couples facing forcible divorce by the state of California. To put a face to marriage equality,” says the web site of the community photo project.
Dozens of families contributed wedding photos with the message “Please Don’t Divorce Us” and holiday pictures of their children, pets and Christmas trees.
Other supporters sent pictures saying, “Please Don’t Divorce Our Friends” or “Please Don’t Divorce Love.”
Gay Alaskans Married in California
There is no residency requirement for marrying in California, and same-sex couples from Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau were married there, along with couples from other states and countries.
Mo and Lin of Juneau were legally married in San Francisco on Sept. 15, eighteen years after their original, non-legal wedding. Juneau residents formed a “
human arch of love and acceptance” for the couple to walk through during the October reception, and the party raised money for Equality California.
At the
Anchorage rally protesting the passage of Prop 8, a gay couple put their wedding photo on their signs, and a lesbian couple brought copies of their Palm Springs marriage certificate. Both couples were interviewed by local television reporters at the Nov. 15 rally.
The same day at the Fairbanks City Hall protest, two young men
posed for a photo with their sign: “Just Married, San Francisco, Sept 8, 2008.”
The state of Alaska does not recognize these marriages, but they are recognized in at least four states, Canada, and several other countries.
Please don’t divorce them!
View the pictures “
Please Don’t Divorce Us” and add your wedding photo, or a photo in support of your married friends.
– Photo: Lori & Artemis with their California marriage certificate, at the Anchorage protest against Prop 8. (photo by Koala)
