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What's on the table: Anchorage equal rights ordinance
It’s been a long hard haul: six long nights of public testimony. Now finally tonight there may be some decisions made. Here’s the Assembly’s agenda tonight. The equal rights-related items are item 9.B.2, which is Dan Coffey’s resolution for a … Continue reading
Delay by "task force": My testimony to the Anchorage Assembly
Over the past couple of weeks, Bent Alaska has been publishing some of the testimony of people who testified to the Anchorage Assembly in favor of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance AO 2009-64, which if passed will grant equal protection … Continue reading
Kelley testimony 2: Oncale Supreme Court decision on workplace sexual harassment does not protect LGBTs from discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., 523 U.S. 75 (1998) was offered by one speaker in July 21 Assembly testimony as proof that existing law already exists to protect LGBT people from unfair discrimination. But, as attorney and UAA professor Pamela Kelley writes, Oncale’s application is very narrow: to sexual harassment between members of the same sex (regardless of sexual orientation) in the workplace.
Kelley testimony 1: Contrary to prior Assembly testimony, existing law does not protect LGBT people from discrimination
Among the few arguments against proposed Anchorage ordinance AO 2009-64 that does not involve Christianist claims about the Bible is the claim that such an ordinance is unnecessary — that existing law already protects lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transfolk from unfair discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and financial practices. But this claim is not true, as attorney and UAA professor Pamela Kelley testified on July 21.
The Daily Tweets, 2009-07-21: Assembly public hearing #6
Note 7/22/09: Most of the tweets in this collection are from the Anchorage Assembly meeting, the sixth (& last) meeting at which public testimony was taken on the Anchorage equal rights ordinance which will, if passed, add sexual orientation/gender identity … Continue reading
Posted in Ordinance, The Daily Tweets
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Assembly public hearing, live tweeting
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Mel Green, Occasional political blogger
After writing that post about Sarah Palin and her million dollar meme, I started to get worried: if I don’t look out, people are going to mistake me for a political blogger. Well. Maybe I am. Sometimes. Call me an occasional political blogger.
Posted in Itse, Ordinance, Polis
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The Daily Tweets, 2009-07-07 (Assembly public hearing #5)
@alaskacommons Whoa thanks for the good words John! I do okay when my hands aren’t killing me, huh? in reply to alaskacommons # @jansonjones Thanks Janson, nicel words to get the three hours of shuteye left to me on! 😉 … Continue reading
Posted in Ordinance, The Daily Tweets
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Assembly public hearing, live tweeting
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Happy wedding! (for John & Heather)
Wishing my newfound blogger friends John Aronno & Heather James (of Alaska Commons & SOSAnchorage.net, respectively) a happy wedding.
Posted in Journal, Ordinance
Tagged Alaska Commons, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, friends, Heather Aronno, John Aronno, lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, PrideFest, SOSAnchorage.net, wedding
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Bar Fragments (poem)
This is the series of couplets that includes the lines about Michael Jackson included in my last post. Though written in 1995, the experiences date from 1983-84, when I was in my 20s & often went out dancing (& drinking … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQ history, Poems
Tagged dancing, Donna Summers, lgbtq, Michael Jackson, Village Lounge & Disco, writing
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No Questions, Questions (poem)
You wouldn’t think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I’ve written b/c of him. Yikes.