The Blue Alaskan

Sign in Subscribe

LGBTQ

The radical anti-LGBTQ views of mayoral candidate Dave Bronson

The radical anti-LGBTQ views of mayoral candidate Dave Bronson

David Bronson launched his bid to become Anchorage's next mayor last August on the back of the Save Anchorage Facebook group. It's a group that often makes local news when its members engage in unbecoming behavior. Bronson's current campaign is just one in a

Suggestive Comments Consume The Watchman in Rivera Article

Suggestive Comments Consume The Watchman in Rivera Article

If you can stomach it, there's a vile display of homophobia, suggestive threats, and dog-whistling happening over on the Facebook page of the Alaska Watchman. Facebook comments related to an "article" written by Alaska Watchman about Anchorage Assembly Chair Felix Rivera and his "leftist agenda&

Anchorage Says, 'No Thanks,' To Conversion Therapy

Anchorage Says, 'No Thanks,' To Conversion Therapy

In a 9-2 vote, the Anchorage Assembly passed an ordinance banning conversion therapy. Conversion therapy, or reparative therapy, is junk science aimed at changing an individual's sexual orientation or identity. The American Psychiatric Association struck homosexuality off its mental illness list back in 1973. Forty-seven years later, a