Articles tagged with: Alaska Pride
A message from Identity about Saturday’s accident at Pride
A Message From Identity, Inc. Board of Directors Regarding the Recent Tragic Accident
Again, the Board of Identity, Inc. expresses its deepest sympathies to James Crump’s family and friends and to each person impacted by the tragic accident at the Alaska Pride Parade on June 25, 2011 in Anchorage.
The Board extends its thanks to the Anchorage Police and Fire Departments for their response and to each member of the Anchorage community for the support shown. The facts of the accident are under investigation by the Anchorage Police Department.
Identity’s website will have information for those who feel the need for emotional support caused by this tragedy.
The Identity Board is exploring ways to honor James.
The Psychological Services Center at UAA has graciously extended its services to all effected by the tragic accident of June 25, 2011. They can provide free long-term counseling to anyone who feels the need for emotional support. Contact the PSC at 786-1795.
Pride Slide: Photos from Alaska Pride Fest 2011
A slideshow of photos from Alaska Pride Fest 2011, held in Anchorage, AK on June 25, 2011.
A mournful Pride
Just a few minutes after it began, Anchorage’s annual Pride parade ended in tragedy with the accidental death of James L. Crump, a registered nurse with the Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services and a loved member of the Anchorage LGBT community. May he rest in peace.
Doug Frank: Grand Marshal for Alaska Pride Fest 2011
Doug Frank has been announced as tthe Grand Marshall for Alaska Pride Fest 2011. Alaska Pride Fest provided this biography documenting Frank’s decades of service to the LGBTQA community of Alaska, including his work with World AIDS Day and the Names Project Quilt, cofounding of the annual Pride Conference, and the 20012 Pride Month display at Anchorages’s Loussace Library.
This weekend in LGBTQ Alaska (6/17/11): Pride Week begins!
Pride Week kicks off in Anchorage with a Pride art exhibit, a big Pink Dot for love in Town Square, the film Role/Play, the annual Mr/Ms/Miss Gay Alaska pageant (with a new title this year), the LGBT Memorial Service, a free BBQ, and Drag Camp! to teach us how it’s done: those events and more, plus a preview of what’s coming up next week.
Alaska Pride Week 2011 events
Pride Week 2011 begins on Friday June 17, and there’s something for everyone! Here is the full schedule of June Pride events in Anchorage. (Check Alaska Pride for updates and new events added after this post.)
My first Anchorage Pride, 1983 — and (some of) Identity’s early history
As Pride Week approaches, we thought we’d revisit a few of the Pride Weeks of Anchorage’s past. Last week, Alaska Pride gave us a flashback to 1978. Now we’ll jump forward in time a few years: to 1983, my first Pride in Anchorage, just short of a year after I first arrived in Alaska.
Thanking those who in the past Stepped Up and Stepped Out with Pride
A message from Alaska Pride | originally posted at the Alaska Pride blog
Flashback to July 1978
In this day and age, it isn’t too rare to see Gay Pride marches across the United States and all around the world. In fact, its pretty much expected. Presidents of our nation even declare a month out of the year as Gay Pride Month (when we really should celebrate Pride all year round!).
GLBT folk and our allies get to march in these parades, unhindered and proudly.
That wasn’t always the case…
Lets flashback to Anchorage in July of 1978. This was the reality of that day and age:
Just imagine being someone in this march. These brave marchers had to wear paper bags over their heads for fear of harassment, abuse, and most of all — losing their jobs. Life was already hard enough being GLBT in Alaska in the 1970′s. But to march and show your Pride was even harder.
This Pride, we honor those who took the first steps to ensure that we as a community can march proudly in the streets, open, no brown paper bags over our heads, no disguise. Because of these individuals who Stepped Up and Stepped Out decades ago, we have the luxury to be able to continue Stepping Up and Stepping Out.
So what have you done to make sure that pictures like these become a thing of the past, something that years from now, we will look back and wonder at the incredulity and ignorance of those people?
This year, this Pride, we ask that you Step Up, Step Out, take that paper bag of your head and march proudly with us on June 25. For even today, it is punishable by death to be GLBT in several nations across the world. Today, Pride marches are banned in several nations, like the Pride march banned in Moscow in which marchers were brutalized and arrested (Read more here.)
That will only end when individuals like you end it.
But please, remember that you are walking in the footsteps of giants like Doug Frank, our Grand Marshall for this years Pride. (Read his bio here.) So tread softly, but tread on nonetheless!
This weekend in LGBTQ Alaska (6/2/11): An ordination, a USO show, male strippers, and IAA First Friday
The ordination of an Anchorage religious leader, a USO-themed fundraiser for Alaska Pride, the visit of a male-stripper review from NYC, and IAA’s First Friday show in Fairbanks dominate this weekend in LGBTQ Alaska. Those events and more, plus a preview of what’s coming up next week.
A night at the USO, a military affair: A Pride fundraiser this Saturday night
Grab your Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy or your best dame, and join us for a night of fun and laughs in a 1940s USO — a fundraiser for Alaska Pride Fest!
Cohosted by Colleen Crinklaw and Jerad Martens, with performers including Isis Von Croft, Alexis Kellie, Diedra Windsor Walker, Sahandra Crosse, Mariquita, and a few more that are going to work hard to show the guests a good time.
Pay $10 for a grab bag, & you might win prizes ranging in value from $80–$320!!!. We’ll also have a soldier’s toast and light food available while it lasts.
- Date/time: Saturday, June 4, 7:00 to 9:45 PM
- Location: Mad Myrna’s, 530 E. 5th Ave. in downtown Anchorage (see map)
- Cost of admission: $7.00
- Further info: See the Facebook event page
