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The Daily Tweets 2011-06-29: Anchorage Assembly honors memory of James L. Crump
James L. Crump is the man who was accidentally killed in the first minutes of the Anchorage Pride parade last Saturday morning. I didn’t know him, but I’m writing quite a lot about him: his death has been shaking the … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTQA, The Daily Tweets
Tagged Anchorage Assembly, Elvi Gray-Jackson, Harriet Drummond, James L. Crump, PrideFest
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Pride Slide: Photos from Alaska Pride Fest 2011
A slideshow of photos from Alaska Pride Fest 2011, held in Anchorage, AK on June 25, 2011.
My first Anchorage Pride, 1983 — and (some of) Identity’s early history
Crossposted at Bent Alaska My first Pride in Anchorage, just short of a year after I first arrived in Alaska, was in June 1983. This was my second Pride march overall — my first had been in Boston in 1981, … Continue reading
Anchorage PrideFest 2010
Posted in Alaska politics, LGBTQA
Tagged Diane Benson, Ethan Berkowitz, Hollis French, lgbta, LGBTQ allies, PrideFest
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My story of 2009
Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
Posted in About writing, Alaska justice system, Alaska politics, Cold, depression, Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner
Tagged Alaska Commons, Alaska Judicial Council, Alaska Legislature, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Anchorage Press, Arliss Sturgulewski, Bent Alaska, cave, Celtic Diva, Columbia Sussex, couch, Crossed Genres, Dad, Dan Sullivan, Dave, death, Eddie Burke, Floridana Alaskiana v2.5, Grandpa Claude, Green family, Green-Lieght family, grey, Grrlzlist, Heather Aronno, Hilton Anchorage, hotel workers, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, James Bopp Jr., Jane Angvik, Janson Jones, Jesse, John Aronno, Julius, lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, lima beans, Linda Kellen Biegel, Mark, Mark Begich, Melz published work, Mer, Miller v. Carpeneti, Mom, my apartment, NaNoWriMo 2009, Nicholas Hughes, One in 10, Palin ethics complaints, PrideFest, Progressive Alaska (blog), Ptery, Sarah Palin, Sean Cockerham, SOSAnchorage.net, Stef Gingrich, Summer of Hate, sunflowers, True Diversity Dinner 2009, Väi the cat, veto, Vic Fischer, violence against women, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR), writing
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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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Tributaries (poem)
I was offline most of — well, now I’ll say yesterday, Saturday, it now being early in the AM of Sunday the 14th. Saturday was the kick-off of this year’s PrideFest in Anchorage — the annual women’s show called Celebration … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Celebration of Change, Green-Lieght family, poem, PrideFest, Ptery, Rozz, writing
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Publicity, publicity, publicity
Which Anchorage churches did the Phelpists picket during PrideFest 2003, & which not, & why?
Posted in LGBTQ history
Tagged All Saints Episcopal Church, Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage Daily News, Fred Phelps, lgbtq, MCC (Metropolitan Community Church), PrideFest, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Westboro Baptist Church
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Those Phelpists aren't too clever, are they?
Why did Westboro Baptist Church, famous for their website “godhatesfags.com,” picket Anchorage Baptist Temple — famous in Anchorage as the very center of antigay attitudes in Alaska?
Anchorage Pride 2003: Look how far we’ve come
A brief history of the annual Pride parade in Anchorage from 1983, in which there were 19 marchers, to 2001, in which there were two to three thousand. Can the followers of Fred Phelps wreck that? Don’t think so.
Posted in LGBTQ history
Tagged Fred Phelps, Gay Community News, lgbtq, PrideFest, Westboro Baptist Church
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