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Right-Wing Gender-Obsessed Activists Launch Petition Seeking to Censor Anchorage Public Library Book

Right-Wing Gender-Obsessed Activists Launch Petition Seeking to Censor Anchorage Public Library Book

A petition posted to a Facebook group belonging to the far-right anti-LGBTQ hate organization Alaska Parents’ Rights in Education seeks the relocation of an LGBTQ themed book in the Anchorage Public Library. Once again in the crosshairs of right-wing activists is the children's book Jack (Not Jackie) (2018)

Testimony Opposing ‘Grotesque’ Anti-trans Youth Sports Bill SB 140 Sought (Again)

Testimony Opposing ‘Grotesque’ Anti-trans Youth Sports Bill SB 140 Sought (Again)

Last Thursday, on the day of the hearing for State Senator Shelly Hughes’ discriminatory and transphobic anti-trans youth sports bill SB 140, Senator Roger Holland, Chair of the Education Committee, canceled testimony members of the public were prepared to give on the bill. The committee did, however, permit out-of-state “friendlies”

Legislating Discrimination: Emailed Testimony About ‘Grotesque’ Anti-trans Youth Sports Bill Redacted as Public Opposition Silenced

Legislating Discrimination: Emailed Testimony About ‘Grotesque’ Anti-trans Youth Sports Bill Redacted as Public Opposition Silenced

Trump's 2016 presidential campaign energized far-right groups as he harshly attacked immigrants, Muslims, and progressives. He embraced "white grievance" politics, attracting large numbers of white voters, most frequently men, who believed that they had been the victims of racial discrimination — a fact that should come as

Identity Calls for Testimony Opposing Grotesque Anti-Trans Youth Sports Bill

Identity Calls for Testimony Opposing Grotesque Anti-Trans Youth Sports Bill

SB 140, a blatantly discriminatory bill designed to exclude transgender girls and deny them the ability to participate fully in sports and the school community, has a hearing this week.

Demboski Decimated System: Power-Hungry City Manager Takes Control of Library, Longtime Employee Resigns

Demboski Decimated System: Power-Hungry City Manager Takes Control of Library, Longtime Employee Resigns

Municipal Manager Amy Demboski has once again shown her power-hungry nature, wresting control of the Anchorage Public Library (APL) and shutting down communications between employees of the library and the Anchorage Assembly. On September 24, 2021, Demboski issued a memo directing all communications from the administration to the Assembly, Assembly

Constant Hate: Assemblyman targeted again with vile, homophobic email

Constant Hate: Assemblyman targeted again with vile, homophobic email

Once again, Vice Chair of the Anchorage Assembly Christopher Constant was subjected to hate, which came in the form of an email sent to his Municipal email account by an Anchorage resident late Monday night. Constant captioned the email he shared to his Twitter account: "Literally, the level of

Identify, Report, Segregate: The Straight Agenda

Identify, Report, Segregate: The Straight Agenda

Last September, Annie Massey, then an administrator of the far-right sex-focused anti-LGBT Alaska Parents' Rights in Education (APRE) Facebook group, uploaded a list of books she said contained sexual content, including illustrations of sexual positions, masturbation guides, and pedophilic grooming. Parents' Rights in Education believes that LGBTQ+ advocates