Snow Dancing in Alaska
This Week in GLBT Alaska 11/28/08
MILK opens today in the Lower 48
Two Gay Thanksgiving Meals in Anchorage
World AIDS Day, December 1, 2008
Protest Photo Wrap-up
Human Arch Reflects Love and Acceptance for All Families
This Week in GLBT Alaska 11/21/08
Juneau
SEAGLA Social Fridays 6-8 p.m.
Fairbanks
"The Laramie Project" Play and Discussion at Theatre UAF, 11/21-11/23
"Live and Let Live: The Local Context of The Laramie Project," a community discussion after the 2 pm matinee on Saturday 11/22 Theatre UAF
Fairbanks Meet n' Greet with the ICOAA 11/22, 5-6:30 p.m. at Bobby's Downtown
Anchorage
Ever Ready in Eagle River & Indian, 11/21 & 11/22
Black Ball - A Fetish Party 11/22, 9 p.m. at Mad Myrna's. A fundraiser for Mr. International Bear 2008.
Trans Support Group, Sundays 4-6 p.m. at the GLCCA
EVE's Community Thanksgiving Dinner 11/26, 5 p.m. Mad Myrna's. FREE
Hump Day Happy Hour, Wednesdays 5-7 p.m. with TLFMC
GLCCA Thanksgiving Day Open House 11/27, 2-6 p.m.
Transgender Day of Remembrance
The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 inspired the Remembering Our Dead web project and a candlelight vigil.
Unfortunately, another trans person was murdered just this week for being trans and gay, Teish Cannon of Syracuse, New York.
Others being remembered this year as part of Transgender Day of Remembrance include Lawrence King of Oxnard, Calif., a 15-year-old boy who liked to wear women's clothes and was shot in the head by a fellow classmate; Simmie Williams Jr., 17, shot in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. wearing women's clothes; and Angie Zapata, 18, of Greeley, Colo., brutally murdered by a 31-year-old man who became enraged when he learned that she was a biological male.
Locally, MCC Anchorage held a Transgendered Day candle lighting service last Sunday.
Richard LaFortune, a Native Alaskan member of the Yup'ik tribe, spoke yesterday at Washington State University about 'two-spirit people,' American Indians with both a male and female spirit. LaFortune helped organize the International Two Spirit Gathering, an annual gathering of LGBT Native people that occurs in late August.
Video of the Anchorage Prop 8 Protest
Senator-Elect Mark Begich's Record on Gay Issues
"2, 4, 6, 8 ..." Prop 8 Protestors March and Chant in Downtown Anchorage
Fairbanks for Equal Marriage: Prop 8 Protest at City Hall
Juneau's "Mobile" Prop 8 Protest
I would like to be part of this national day of protest. So here's the plan and I hope you'll all join me. I'm going to put a sign in my car window and be a sort of mobile protester as I do my Saturday errands and schlep my kids to and from soccer games. I've attached my sign and would be honored if some of you want to use it and join me. Or you can modify it as you please, or make your own. You can find other suggestions at Join the Impact.Please spread the word.
I'll honk if I see you!
Anchorage and Fairbanks Fight the H8, Protest Prop 8!
Anchorage Fight the H8 Protest, Nov. 15
Fairbanks Fight the H8 Protest, Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m.
We Can Marry in Connecticut!
Fight the H8: Join the Impact
National Protest Against Prop 8 on Nov. 15
Repeal Prop 8