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AK: Anchorage Gay Rights Group Collects Signatures for 2012 Initiative
A new campaign is on in the decades-long battle over adding Anchorage’s gay and transgender residents to the city’s anti-discrimination law. A local group — One Anchorage — filed an application today...
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AK: Report Shows Evidence of Discrimination Against Anchorage LGBT’s
Following a long and very public debate, the Anchorage Assembly in August 2009 passed an ordinance by a vote of 7-4 that would ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender...
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AK: Alliance Defense Fund Joins Fight Against Anchorage Gay Rights Initiative
A national conservative Christian legal group says the gay rights initiative on Anchorage’s April 3 city election ballot, coupled with existing Anchorage discrimination law, undercuts religious...
View ArticleAK: Former Anchorage Mayors Support Gay Rights Initiative
According to Alaska’s News Tribune, five former Anchorage mayors have come out in support of a measure that would give legal protections to Alaska’s LGBT citizens. The mayors, Rick Mystrom, Jack...
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AK: Anchorage Gay Rights Initiative Needs Support
Thirty-five years–that’s how long they’ve been fighting for basic civil rights protections up here in Anchorage, Alaska. The city and county governments of Anchorage combined into one body in 1976–the...
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AK, USA: Anti Gay Group Runs Offensive Transphobic Ad
As weve mentioned several times in recent weeks, Anchorage is set to vote on April 5 on an anti-discrimination ordinance that LGBT advocates have been working to pass for 35 years, and opponents are...
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AK: Gay Rights Ordinance Ahead, Poll Says
It cannot be overstated that if Anchorage’s proposed LGBT non-discrimination protections pass, it could have a huge impact on the future of LGBT rights in Alaska. Currently, polling shows the measure...
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AK, USA: Voters to Decide Anchorage LGBT Non Discrimination Law Tomorrow
Tomorrow, voters in Anchorage, Alaska will be voting on Proposition 5, which One Anchorage explains: …simply provides to gay and transgender Alaskans the same legal protections that we already provide...
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AK, USA: Headlines Announcing Failure of Prop 5 Premature?
Headlines which announce the failure of Proposition 5 are premature, according to Bent Alaska, an Anchorage-based LGBT community website. Proposition 5 would have added sexual orientation and gender...
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AK, USA: Anchorage City Council Votes Against Investigation Into Flawed Election
The battle to win LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination laws in Anchorage, Alaska, has come to an end. Well, maybe. Local NBC affiliate KTUU reports that the Anchorage Assembly voted Tuesday evening 7-4...
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