Tag Archives: lgbtq

Happy wedding! (for John & Heather)

Posted on Sat, 27 June 2009 by Mel Green

Wishing my newfound blogger friends John Aronno & Heather James (of Alaska Commons & SOSAnchorage.net, respectively) a happy wedding. Continue reading →

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Bar Fragments (poem)

Posted on Thu, 25 June 2009 by Mel Green

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 →

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The Daily Tweets, 2009-06-23 (Assembly public hearing #4)

Posted on Tue, 23 June 2009 by Mel Green

How’d my work get on the mailing list for this meter reading/utility collection outfit? yoohoo, we’re UAA, not AWWU. # Lynne called from Assembly 345 PM: chambers not yet open, abt 60 people waiting: 2/3 blue. Pack those chambers, blues! … Continue reading →

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Letter to a Straight Friend — a poem for Pride

Posted on Sat, 20 June 2009 by Mel Green

I wrote this poem way back in 1979, as a sophomore in college — just a few months after I’d decided, after much agony of spirit, to accept what all my inner feelings were compelling me to know: that I … Continue reading →

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Equality Works optimistic on gaining equal protection (press release)

Posted on Fri, 19 June 2009 by Mel Green

Despite the Anchorage Daily News doomsaying story that came out earlier today, Equality Works is still optimistic about gaining equal protections for LGBT people in Anchorage.  Here’s the press release they just issued. Contact: Jackie Buckley, (907) 229-6219 Mia Oxley, … Continue reading →

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Debbie Ossiander & the Christianist filibuster

Posted on Fri, 19 June 2009 by Mel Green

Is Debbie Ossiander cooperating intentionally or unintentionally with Prevo & co.’s filibustering techniques? And let’s not forget those Mat-Su witnesses she’s allowing to testify.

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Three Assembly hearings: A compilation

Posted on Thu, 18 June 2009 by Mel Green

Compiling posts and publications on the first three hearings on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance.

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

Posted on Tue, 16 June 2009 by Mel Green

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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The new Carrie Prejean?

Posted on Mon, 15 June 2009 by Mel Green

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!

Posted on Sun, 14 June 2009 by Mel Green

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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