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Keeping the T in LGBT
[See also my previous post on this topic, We are all, or none.] Well, now, short shrift has certainly been given to pollster Ivan Moore’s idea (posted on June 4 at 4:00 PM in comments on the web-posted version of … Continue reading
Posted in Ordinance, Transfolk
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, bathrooms, biological sex, Ivan Moore, Jerry Prevo, trans
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We are all, or none
Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove “gender identity” and “gender expression” from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance — in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won’t throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I’m not alone.
Equality Works Sets the Record Straight
I didn’t write this: Equality Works did. But given the misinformation floating about, I think it’s worth reposting. Tip o’ the nib to Bent Alaska. Equality Works Seeks Truthful Discussion on Proposed Ordinance, Sets Record Straight on Mayor’s Proposal to … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq, press release
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My letter to the Anchorage Assembly
My letter to the Anchorage Municipal Assembly and Acting Mayor Matt Claman in support of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance, which would add “sexual orientation” and “veteran status” to those classes already included in Title V, Anchorage’s equal rights code.
Words for equality
A compilation of links to blog posts & opinion pieces favoring addition of “sexual orientation” to the Municipality of Anchorage’s equal rights code.
Posted in Ordinance
Tagged Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, blogs, lgbtq
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Saying "I Love You" (poem)
Saying “I Love You” Saturday I show him the video of the trip you and I took after we first met. It was almost four years ago. The tape starts with a pond along the highway to Valdez. There are … Continue reading
Prevo's devil masks
Jerry Prevo’s 1985 “devil costume debacle” illustrates that it’s not only against homosexuals that Prevo is willing to throw up red herrings, deceptions, and outright lies.
Prop 8 again
A few months ago, a slim majority of California passed Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California after five or six months of it being legal. Since then, we’ve been waiting for the California Supreme Court to decide upon … Continue reading
Prevo's red herrings
There’s no doubt that the Anchorage Baptist Temple’s Jerry Prevo has followed Jesus’ instruction to the fishermen Simon Peter and Andrew to become a fisher of men. But evidence suggests he also excels as a fisher of red herrings, especially when it comes to his opposition to equal rights for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transfolk.
Sermon (a poem)
“I take as my text the Book of Job — / for are we not like him, innocent, / suffering, crying out for justice? / are we not like him, each of us / surrounded by these righteous, / these pious friends who so love us, / who console us with false accusations, who comfort us with lies?”