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Equality Works fundraiser
Usually Friday nights for me are home nights. After all, that’s the night “Battlestar Galactica” is on! Except that… “Battlestar Galactica” is over [sigh]. But [brightening up] at least I have the DVDs! Okay, well, that’s the night “Dollhouse” is … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Alaska politics, Anchorage, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Equality Works, lgbtq
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Divorce, financially interdependent partner style
Today is the final day of the University of Alaska system’s annual Open Enrollment period, when we have the opportunity to make changes to the various options in our benefits package. And so it came to formalize what Rozz, now … Continue reading
Posted in Journal, Marriage equality
Tagged Green-Lieght family, Ptery, Rozz, same-sex marriage, UAA
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Listening to Eddie
Yesterday, in between finding myself in front of a TV camera at lunchtime & watching the results in the evening, I listened in on Eddie Burke’s talk radio show on KBYR 700-AM. I’d heard Mr. Burke would be devoting his … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged ACLU, Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Eddie Burke, Jeff Mittman, Jim Minnery, lgbtq
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Channel 11 interview, part 2 (the full story)
Once upon a time I was a probationary employee of the Book Cache at Sears Mall. And then they discovered I was… [gasp]… a lesbian!
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Identity Reports, lgbtq, Melz history, One in 10
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Channel 11 interview, part 1 (the video)
It was a surprise to me: around 10:30 or so this morning I got a call at work, on my direct line, from someone identifying himself as a reporter. I’m not entirely unused to getting calls from reporters — faculty … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Alaska politics, Anchorage, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, KTVA Channel 11 News, lgbtq, politics
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The noise begins
The Anchorage Daily News has a story by Megan Holland on the proposed equal rights ordinance: “Assembly to consider gay rights ordinance — Discrimination ban: Proposal would also cover veterans; Rev. Prevo plans fight” No big surprise that Jerry Prevo … Continue reading
Against discrimination in Anchorage
Anchorage Assemblymember Patrick Flynn posted on his blog this morning on Sunday that an ordinance to bar discrimination based upon sexual orientation or veteran’s status in the Municipality of Anchorage would be introduced at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. Per Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq, Patrick Flynn, politics, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR)
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Same-sex marriage: A personal history
Good news from Maine Wednesday: its legislature passed, & its governor signed, a law making it legal for same-sex couples to marry. This makes Maine the 5th state in the U.S., after Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, & Iowa, to grant the … Continue reading
WAR's antigay letter to the Alaska Bar Association, 1993
You’ve heard about it, now here it is: the famous letter written by Wayne Anthony Ross to the Alaska Bar Association and published in the Alaska Bar Rag in the early 1990s (turns out it was 1993) which referred to … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, LGBTQ history
Tagged Alaska, Alaska Bar Association, Alaska politics, Anchorage, antigay, lima beans, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR)
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Superdykes
So DC Comics, originator of such comic book heroes as Superman & Batman, is now unveiling a new lesbian superhero: Batwoman, who is actually a recast of a minor DC Comics character who I gather was killed off in the … Continue reading