Category Archives: LGBTQA

It’s not “special rights,” it’s not “gay rights” — it’s EQUAL rights. In this case, equal rights for LGBTQ people which, for those of you unfamiliar with our alphabet soup, is interpreted as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, & queer (or questioning) people. And the A is for our terrific allies.

The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-16 (Assembly public hearing #2)

This automatically-generated compilation of tweets from my Twitter feed all are in regards to the June 16 Anchorage Assembly meeting — public testimony on the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. Later, when I have time, I’ll intergrate them with my liveblog … Continue reading

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Liveblogging Assembly meeting, June 16 (Assembly public hearing #2)

I will be testifying about these studies at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. They are online by following this link:http://www.henkimaa.com/identity/. Liveblogging commences below. I will also be occasionally twittering at http://twitter.com/yksin which also updates my Facebook status.  This is partly to … Continue reading

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Identity Reports and One in Ten

I will be testifying about these studies at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. They are are online by following this link: http://www.henkimaa.com/identity/. Update (6/17/09) I’ve turned this into a “sticky post” so it’ll stay on top for awhile, to make it … Continue reading

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The new Carrie Prejean?

In what looks like another of last Tuesday’s ploys by Prevo & company, an obvious attempt to bait LGBT people & our allies into turning the newly-crowned Mrs. Alaska United States® into another Carrie Prejean, martyr of the religious right.

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Identity Reports & One in Ten — now online!

You’ve heard about them — or maybe you haven’t — but now you have. Anyway: now they’re online! As I wrote in my June 2 letter to the Anchorage Assembly: It’s been pointed out that the government maintains no statistics … Continue reading

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Billboards

While in 2003 Jerry Prevo decried Westboro Baptist Church tactics, in 2009 he & his allies didn’t hesitate to use children — even some younger then 10 — in a very like way, as billboards for their parents’ prejudices.

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Assembly report 2: June 9 public testimony

So yes, finally I have a little time to write up my account of last Tuesday’s public hearing before the Anchorage Assembly on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance. In the parking lot I got there pretty early … Continue reading

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Outside influence

Why are Mat-Su residents being bused into Anchorage to testify on Anchorage’s equal rights ordinance?

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Assembly report 1

This is just a quickie, I’ll write a longer post later. It was a long night last night, but not actually a horrific one. I gathered from occasional checks of email & Twitter with my iPod Touch from within chambers … Continue reading

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See you tonight

I exhausted myself a couple of nights ago, & if there’s one thing I’ve learned about me & exhaustion: I’ve gotta take care of it first, before I can take care of anything else. And so for the last couple … Continue reading

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