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One Year of Getting It On
- 1,744 page loads from 1,529 visitors on the www.getitonak.org website
- A trip to Homer to launch the campaign to the local Public Health and Family Planning Center
- A trip to Bethel planned for March 20th to launch the campaign
- Over 350 posters sent to individuals and organizations throughout Alaska
- Over 60,000 custom Get it On Condoms distributed to organizations in rural Alaska
- Statewide airing of the Get It On PSA on GCI Cable
Most importantly, the campaign has educated countless individuals about safe sex and how they can make and keep their community a safe place!
What can you do to help the Four A’s GET IT ON throughout the next year?
- Join the Get It On Campaign’s Facebook page to keep updated on news and events about the campaign,
- Become a subscriber of the Get It On Campaign blog and join in on campaign conversations,
- Link the Get It On website to your organization’s website or personal blog,
- Continue to forward the Get It On home page to your friends, family and online networks.
Thank you for your support of the Get it On Campaign and the Four A’s!
This Week in LGBT Alaska 3/13/09
Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
Fairbanks
MILK at the Blue Loon, the last showing is 3/14, 8 p.m.
Mat-Su Valley
Mat-Su LGBT Community Center social support group meets Wednesdays at 5 p.m. Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
Anchorage
“Sordid Lives: A Black Comedy About White Trash” opens tonight! Performed live at Mad Myrna’s, Fridays & Saturdays 3/13-3/28, 7 p.m. (the date on the poster is incorrect.)
Third Sunday of Lent with Rev. Norman Van Manen and MCC Anchorage 3/15, 2 p.m.
Transgendered Alaskans’ Social Group (TASG) meets Sundays 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the GLCCA.
PFLAG meeting 3/17, 7 p.m. at the GLCCA.
Bent’s First Birthday
Lucy Frey Inducted into Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame
Lucy Frey, a founder of Alaska’s lesbian community, was inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame on March 6 as a member of the inaugural class. Frey is honored as a “social studies educator [and] feminist leader.”
The Hall of Fame inducted 50 women who have made or are making significant contributions to the shaping of Alaska. Seven of the 13 living inductees were present and most are supporters of the lesbian and gay community, according to the Grrlzlist, including Carol Comeau, Dana Fabe, Katie Hurley, Sarah James, Arliss Sturgulewski, Fran Ulmer and Esther Wunnicke.
“I remember Lucy Frey for two things,” wrote Rosemary Shinohara in an ADN editorial Some Teacher.
“She was my most memorable teacher at Clark Junior High. I loved social studies in seventh grade. Getting to stay after to work on the bulletin boards was a big treat. She put up with troublemakers. She furthered a passion for school that carried me through many years. And she often played Scrabble with my mother, a school secretary and die-hard Catholic. I went along for the games.
“I had no idea at the time that Lucy Frey had a life outside Scrabble and classrooms. But last week, she was among 50 women named to the first Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame induction, alongside such notables as Tlingit civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich and Mary Louise Rasmuson of the Rasmuson Foundation.
“Now I find that she was a peace activist, noted Alaska feminist and rabble rouser.
“She handed out pledge cards downtown, asking people to resist violence. She co-owned the Alaska Women’s Bookstore. She helped launch the Alaska Women’s Political Caucus.
“Organizers of the Hall of Fame — a handful of women’s organizations — say many feminist causes originated over potluck dinners in her living room.
“I don’t know how Lucy and my mother became friends — I’ve always thought of my mother as having been a more traditional mom, certainly not someone to hang out with feminists. But I’m glad it happened.
“I always knew Lucy Frey was a special teacher. Now I know she was a special human being too.”
Many LGBT people and our allies knew Lucy and enjoyed the lesbian groups and events she helped to create. Although I moved to Alaska just after she retired to Missouri, I heard much about her, especially the potlucks and the Sing-Along.
What are your thoughts on Lucy Frey’s contributions to Alaska? Share your stories of Lucy in the comments.
Gay AK News & Notes
Celebrate Women in March
This Week in LGBT Alaska 3/6/09
Juneau
Women of Distinction Dinner, with the Pride Chorus and Marsha Buck, 3/7
SEAGLA Social Fridays (6-8 p.m.) for GLBT people and our friends over 21, at The Imperial Bar, downtown.
Fairbanks
The movie MILK, about Harvey Milk, is showing at the Blue Loon 3/5 – 3/6 at 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., and 3/10 – 3/14 at 8 p.m., except March 13. See the Blue Loon for details.
PFLAG meeting 3/8 at 4 p.m.
Mat-Su Valley
Mat-Su LGBT Community Center social support group meetings to discuss LBGT issues in the valley. Wednesdays at 5 p.m. Vagabond Blues in Palmer.
Anchorage
Alaska Rainbows dinner 3/7, 5-7 p.m.
Gothique Leather & Lace Divas Goth Fashion Show hosted by Kynt & Vyxsin. 3/7, 9 p.m. Mad Myrna’s. $10.
Men of Atlantis 3/8, 9 p.m. Mad Myrna’s. $10.
The second Sunday of Lent with Rev. Norman Van Manen and MCC Anchorage 3/8, 2 p.m.
Transgendered Alaskans’ Social Group (TASG), meets Sundays 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the GLCCA.
Juneau student says same-sex marriage should be legal
An 8th grader in Juneau wrote a great essay in support of same-sex marriage and it was published in the Capital City Weekly:
There is no good reason to ban gay marriage
by Madeleina Ellingson-van Sickle, Floyd Dryden Student
Ten percent of America is gay. That’s 1 in 10. Chances are that’s someone you know or someone you come in contact with every day. Why should they be given different rights just because of their sexual orientation? They shouldn’t. Gay marriage should be legal in all 50 states.
The government shouldn’t tell people how to live their lives. Right now, only two states allow gay marriage: Connecticut and Massachusetts. For a short time California allowed gay marriage, but then the people overturned the decision and it is no longer allowed. The problem is, only a small percentage of our country’s population live in those states. What about the millions of others who are gay and love each other? Many people say they should just get a domestic partnership (which is similar in some ways to marriage, except for the 1,138 other rights that married couples have), but still 19 states don’t allow that either. As George Sand, a famous French novelist once said, “There is one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.” Should the laws choose who can and can’t have that happiness based on their sexual preference? People should choose whom to love; we don’t need the government to intervene.
Gay marriage is similar to interracial marriage. People used to say interracial marriage was wrong because it wasn’t “normal” and it was a tradition for couples to get married that were of the same race. But eventually they realized that it was unconstitutional for making individuality illegal. There isn’t much difference with gay marriage. Banning it is unconstitutional. As Charles Evans Hughes, the former Secretary of State, once wrote, “When we lose the right to be different, we lose the right to be free.”
All in all, there is no plausible reason to ban gay marriage. Just because you think it’s gross, or that your friends don’t like it, doesn’t give us the right to tell people who to love or how to live their lives. This country has freedom of religion, so we shouldn’t make law because our religion says it’s wrong.
As a nation, we should come together and make it legal for gay couples to get married. In the Pledge of Allegiance, it doesn’t say with liberty for the straight people, liberty for the white people, or liberty for men. It just says with liberty and justice for all.
Gender Bender Party in Fairbanks
Gothique Fashion Show with Kynt & Vyxsin
