Alaska

The increased security follows the Club Q shooting in Colorado, as well as months of virulent anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric aimed at drag performers.

“I kept hearing her name everywhere. It’s like this nurse, this person is like everywhere in town, doing so many different things.” That was how Daniel Stanton, a 65-year-old transgender Army vet, heard about the woman who was tirelessly working to improve the lives of thousands of LGBTQ people across Alaska and would later earn […]

“I’m not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she’s a woman and a conservative,” Sarah Palin’s mother-in-law said.

Out of touch and unpopular, the former governor is struggling to connect with voters and make it into the runoff.

Sarah Palin opposes marriage equality and says homosexuality is a choice. Now she says she deserves to be in Congress because she has “cajones.”

Christopher Constant is the first out gay candidate to run for statewide election in Alaska. And he has a shot.

The president of Liberty University appears to have said he violated tax law for 30 years in his battles with “the homosexual community,” and he’s not stopping now.

State attorney Matthias Cicotte allegedly called a drag queen a “demon” who should “be burned to death” and called for “the death penalty” for people who support trans youth.

She believes people can pray away their gay and pharmaceutical drugs are a product of witchcraft.

The state’s oil wealth fund refused to pay same-sex spouses benefits for years after marriage equality was legalized. That just ended.

The husbands said they got nothing but compliments about their BLM rainbow flag, until someone ripped it up.

The previous mayor resigned amidst sexual harassment allegations, but she’s focused on the COVID pandemic and the economy.

75 U.S. cities and 40% of U.S. states now ban conversion therapy for minors, but anti-gay forces are still calling it a form of religious speech.

Of course, there was a quarantine back in St. Olaf once. Yes, it involved a herring.

The state argued they have a right to discriminate against transgender people. A judge said no.

The state still distributes booklets that tell same-sex couples they aren’t eligible for benefits because of the state ban on marriage equality.

The city was investigating them for anti-trans discrimination. So they sued the city for religious discrimination.

Her husband is filing for divorce citing an “incompatibility of temperament.”

Of course, the girl is the one who got expelled.

Jim Matherly was a co-sponsor, but “soul searching” caused him to veto the ordinance.