Alaska GLBT news Letter

[Oni]

I am breaking this up and scattering it through out the forum. But in case I did miss anything I am posting it here as well.
And if you look closly you will see the forum mentioned YAY!



1) AlaskansTogether Events (Anch, Fbnks, Juneau)

2) 4 A’s Fundraiser (Anch Sunday, March 18th)

3) Shelly Wozniak Performance (Anch Mar 16-25)

4) “The Naked Ptarmigan” publication begins

5) MCC starts web forum

6) Community Center News & Events

7) Help Needed

 

1) AlaskansTogether events for this week ...

 

Here is a comprehensive list of events scheduled to assist with defeating the Same-Sex Benefits ban vote coming up on April 3rd.

 

Fairbanks Events:

 

Thursday, March 15

5:30 p.m.

Fairbanks Organizing Meeting

Fairbanks Campaign Office

516 2nd Ave #314

 

March 14 - April 3

Monday - Friday

Phone Banking

Please call 907.978.3211

to volunteer

 

March 16- March 17

11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Campaign Office Open House

Fairbanks Field Office

516 2nd Ave #314

 

For Fairbanks events, contact: 907.378.9187

 

Juneau Events:

 

Wednesday, March 14

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Voter ID Phone Bank

NEA Office

(Corner of 2nd and Main)

Contact: mbuck@alaska.net

 

Wednesday, March 14

5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Fundraising Phone Bank

MRV Architects

Contact: mbuck@alaska.net

 

Thursday, March 15

5:30 p.m.

Juneau Organizing Meeting

Parkshore Condo Clubhouse

Contact: ctigloo@gci.net

 

Saturday, March 17

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Voter ID Phone Banking

MRV Architects

(corner of Willoughby and glacier)

Contact: mbuck@alaska.net

 

Monday, March 19

If you support fair health benefits for all Alaskans, please join me and:

Senator Kim Elton & Marylou Elton, Rep. Beth Kerttula & Jim Powell, Rep. Andrea Doll, Assemblyman Bob Doll, Liz Dodd, Barbara Belknap, Carol Anderson, Jay & Judy Crondahl, Ann Metcalfe, Rich Listowski, Kristen Bomengen, Mary Graham, Phil & Deborah Smith

 

At a chili feed. Please stop by on Monday, March 19th, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. and have some chili (veggie & meat), cornbread, beer, wine & soft drinks.

 

Where? In Juneau at 730 Gold Street (at the top of the hill, last house on the left, near Basin Road)

 

Please come and support FAIR health care for all Alaskans!!!

 

Please distribute this email widely to your email lists.

All are welcome!!

 

Kim Metcalfe

for more info call 586-2113

 

Anchorage Events:

 

- March 14 - March 15 and March 18 - March 20

6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Voter ID Phone Banking

AlaskansTogether Office

431 W. 7th Ave.

 

Sunday, March 18th

- Birthday Bash and Benefits-Ban Fundraiser ..

 

A Girl of the 60's is turning SIXTY!

Susan Niman, invites YOU, your friends, families, neighbors, political buddies to Celebrate Life, Celebrate Diversity, Celebrate Equality,  (HER BIRTHDAY) and Raise Money for Alaskans Together to help win the fight for equality and maintain the law that gives domestic partners of State Employees access to healthcare benefits.

 

Please join us on Sunday, March 18 2007, 2pm until 10pm Let's Raise Money to BEAT THE BAN against domestic and same sex partnership benefits!

(Some of Our Cohorts Worked So Hard to Pass This In the First Place)

 

Bring Garage Sale Items..your extra stuff may be someone else's prize! Potluck Food to Share, Musical Instruments for Jammin and whatever Cash you can afford. No donation is too small. Board Games, Puzzles, Music, Eating,  Toys for Kids to play with will be available. Come on in and fill my house with Joy, Energy, and Spirit for Equal Rights

 

Party Location is

1428 Valarian St. Anchorage

 (5 Blocks East of Alaska Regional Hospital), off Debarr Bring your friends, family and neighbors BEAT THE BAN Keep Benefits for Domestic Partners a Reality

Questions: Call Susan at 276-6574

 

Wednesday, March 21st

Alaska Women’s Lobby/AlaskansTogether fundraiser ...

 

FUNDraiser with the Alaska Women’s Lobby (the girl who bring you the Divas Concert) and Alaskans Together, Wednesday, March 21st, 5:30PM-7:30PM You are Invited to say NO to discrimination, vote NO on April 3rd! Mara Kimmel & Robin Bronen, with support from the Alaska Women’s Lobby and Alaskans Together invite you to a night of FUNdraising to help our friends stop discrimination in Alaska. 1957 Wildwood Lane in Anchorage.

Driving Directions-Driving south on Minnesota , exit at Hillcrest Drive, turn right on Hillcrest Drive, then right on Wildwood Lane.

 

Wednesday, March 21st

5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

House Party Fundraiser

Home of Jason Nelson & Kurt Parkan

2360 Hialeah Drive

Take Northern Lights west of Minnesota, turn right on Arlington Drive. lst right is Belmont Drive, 2nd right is Hialeah Drive. Arlington Drive also intersects with  Forest Park Drive.

Questions or directions, please call 907.646.0926

 

For Anchorage events, contact:  907.770.5705 or go to

 

http://www.alaskanstogether.com

 

2) (Anch) 4 A’s Fundraiser ...

 

Please join me for my annual baked-goods bash at Mad Myrna's Sunday, March 18 from 4pm to 6pm. If you would like to donate items, please bring your cookies, cakes, secret family recipe apple pie, or favorite dessert to Mad Myrna's at 3pm on that day. There will be silent and live auction items and door prizes to be had! Proceeds will benefit the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association. For more information, contact me at 263-2082.

Please forward this invitation to other friends that might enjoy this event!

 

Thank you!!

 

Scott Turner

 

3) (Anch) Shelly Wozniak Performance ...

 

Get your tickets for the Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts Sydney Lawrence Theatre!

March 16th – March 25th  Wed.-Sat. 8pm / Sundays 3pm

 

Think Monty Python meets Quentin Tarantino! Live, on stage!!  Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh's New hit play is the stunningly funny tale of a ruthless Irish Nationalist Liberation Army enforcer and the one thing he loves more than anything else in the whole world...his little black cat- Wee Thomas. It is wickedly hilarious and must be seen to be believed! ONCE YOU SEE IT- DON'T GIVE AWAY THE ENDING! Come on out and support local lesbian/thespian Shelly Wozniak as she wears a dress and kisses boys in this unbelievably hilarious romp! Tickets are available at http://www.centertix.net  Pay -What- You-Can Preview on March 15th.

 

If you read the preview article in Sunday’s Daily News you just know you want to go. They really praised it.

 

4) “The Naked Ptarmigan”, new GLBTA Publication ...

 

The premier issue of Alaska's newest GLBTA publication, The Naked Ptarmigan, is now out and available. Bold, Brash and Irreverent, The first issue is free on a first-come basis.

You can pick up a copy at the following locations: Salon Da Vinci, Mad Myrna's, The Raven, and Borders Books and Music.

You can also contact us at Ptarmigan-Wing@hotmail.com and we could mail you a copy while available. Subscriptions are $20 for one year (six issues). We welcome submissions and advertising inquiries as well. Coming up soon is our second issue, The Sex Issue

 

5) (Anch) MCC creates web forum ...

 

Metropolitan Community Church has created a web forum for everyone. You are welcome to use it to post and discuss topics. I would like to extend out this invite for everyone to check it out and use it as they would like. It is meant to be informative, useful, and helpful to everyone who would like to use it. I am the Admin of the Forum, and will gladly answer any questions that you have about it. There are many events, and topics that are held on it. From Young Adults Groups, to Discussion about coming out, to religion, helpful guides, and so on. I would like to post more Anchorage events on the forum as well. So if you have an event that you would like posted on the Calendar please email me and I will review it and post it.

 

I would like the forum to be a place for everyone, primarily focusing on the Alaska area, but posting about other areas is fully welcome as well. It's really good to keep people up to date with what is going on around the world and in the country as well.

The Forum URL is http://furshockstudios.furrynet.com/

 

Thank you for your time.

~Oni

onicat@gci.net

 

P.S. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

 

6) (Anch) Community Center News ...

 

Hello from the Anchorage Gay and Lesbian Community Center. In order to keep you updated about What’s Happenin’ at GLCCA, we decided to send out this update whenever we have a few items to share with you.  So, in no particular order….

 

-  While bicycles are not allowed inside GLCCA, we now have bike locks so your bikes can be secured to the light post, traffic meters, or whatever else you can find that does not move or object.  Just come inside and let the person at the desk know you need to borrow a lock.  In case the volunteer looks at you like you are crazy, feel free to offer the reminder that the locks are stored in the top left hand desk drawer.

 

-  We have a new TV with DVD and VCR!  Debbi Douglas, Kathy Allen, and Lawrence Camp we thank you lots!

 

-  We have new DVDs, VHSs, and books in our library.  Steve Gingrich donated a whole slew of DVDs to our collection. Thanks Steve!

 

-  Steve also made some beautiful 6 foot long oak shelves designed perfectly to hold and display our DVD and VHS library.  Thanks again!

 

-  New computers!  New computers! We have new computers thanks to Jeff Ridder .  GLCCA now has two PCs and two MACs!

 

-  We have beautiful new flat screen monitors courtesy of The Last Frontier Men’s Club.  Thank you very much.

 

-  GLCCA is now equipped with a door bell so those needing a little extra help getting through the doors can summon assistance.

 

-  GLCCA is having a tea party on Saturday, April 7th, from

3-5 in the afternoon.  This will be High Tea and you are all invited.  While the tea, food, and presentation will be on the formal side, the rest can be formal or foolish, fun or fancy.  Hats are encouraged!  Period, formal, or British costumes optional.  Attitudes required. Come join us! Bring a friend!

 

- Please be watching for the Graze to Raise fundraiser as we receive money from that event to run GLCCA.

 

- Sunday, March 18,  3:00 pm at the GLCCA, 336 East 5th Ave.

BiAlaskans is a talking/support/social group for bisexuals, spouses, allies and friends.

 

The group will meet the third Sunday of each month from 3 -

5 pm at the GLCCA Center AT 336 E. 5th Avenue in Anchorage.   Some of the topics we'll touch on are:

 

The unique aspects of bisexuality. The struggles of "fitting in" to a gay and/or straight world, bisexuality:

reality or myth?; straight/gay spouse issues & concerns; monogamy and polyamory. We'll tackle one or two of these topics each month.  More resources and literature will be available as the group progresses. This group is being hosted by Talyne Corlyn, former co-director of BiNet AZ - an affiliate of the BiNet USA (www.binetusa.org ) and co-host of the 1998 National Conference on Bisexuality at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.  For more

information: email - talyne@talynecorlyn.com or call 357-9656.

 

7) (Anch) Help Needed ...

 

Two members of our community are in dire need if our help.

Donna and Bryan Parsons are trying to get custody of Bryan's 5 year old son who currently lives in Detroit with his mother. His mother's boyfriend, a twice convicted child molester, is getting out of prison on April 1 and will be living with Bryan's son in his mother's rat infested house that has holes in the floor etc.

 

Bryan and Donna have been HUGE supporters of our community for years working on all events, floats, toy drives, really anything that needed to be done, they have always been there to help.  They have also helped others in need, always behind the scenes and never asking for recognition or anything in return.

 

Bryan and Donna are having to fly back and forth to Detroit to fight for custody. They need mileage to fly back and forth. If anyone has extra miles they can donate please contact Donna at 250-0349 or me at 345-3635.

 

Thank you so much,

Bruno

 

 

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