The Multiracial Activist - www.multiracial.com - On Defining My ...

American Indian or Alaskan Native. In grade school I agonized over which box I was suppose to check off on their forms. As a child I inherited my father's last name, was I also to inherit his white skin privilege? ... It was a time of great late night talks about what it meant to be a woman and a lesbian. I questioned my sexual orientation in the process of my roommate's defining her own. Perhaps I had only considered myself straight by default until this point. ...

I Should Be Laughing: LGBT History Month: The Pansy Craze

After his "farewell performance" at the "Ship Cafe" in Venice, California, Malin got into his sedan with roommate Jimmy Forlenza and comedic actress Patsy Kelly. He apparently confused the gears and the car lurched in reverse and went off a pier into ... Born in 1880, Bert Savoy began his drag act doing a hootchie-kootchie dance at freak shows in Boston and polished it in the wilds of Alaska. He hit the big time in 1914 while understudying for James Russell of the Russell ...

Bent Alaska: Wasilla Library Rejects "Heather Has Two Mommies" and ...

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Bent Alaska ... KJ Martin-Albright, Director of the Wasilla Library, announced that the library will sell the donated copies of Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate through its Friends group. Gay and lesbian citizens donated the children's books to the library after hearing that in 1996 then-mayor Sarah Palin repeatedly asked then-library director Mary Jane Emmons (now Baker) about banning books. During that time, members of Palin's ...

Gay-lesbian titles donated to Wasilla Library « The Outskirts

The news — old news in the Mat-Su Valley, but new in the Lower 48 — prompted Petrelis to send to Wasilla “Heather Has Two Mommies” and “Daddy's Roommate,” both children's books that explain gay lifestyle.”I said I'm going to send copies of both ... Bent Alaska, a blog chronicling gay news and events in the state, praises the donation on its Web site. Tim Stallard, owner of Out in Alaska, a gay and lesbian guide service, said he thinks Petrelis's effort is well-placed. ...

Bent Alaska: Palin Supports Gay Rights?

Coghill said he's interested in a new plan that would allow state employees to designate one person -- maybe a same-sex partner, but also possibly a family member or roommate -- who would be eligible for state-paid benefits. ... HRC press releases such as the one found on your post which would lead you to beleave that their efforts are strictly on behalf of gays and lesbian people......."Sarah Palin not only supported the 1998 Alaska constitutional amendment banning ...