Welcome
to the Alaskans Together Website!
June 12 (Anchorage) - Alaskans Together, the group that led the surprisingly successful fight against the April 2007 anti-gay advisory vote (on same-sex partner benefits) is pleased to announce that it is re-forming as two new groups: Alaskans Together for Equality, Inc. is a non-profit that can lobby the Alaska Legislature for equal rights for LGBT Alaskans, and Alaskans Together Foundation, Inc. is an educational non-profit that can receive grants and educate the Alaskan public on the need for equal treatment and civil rights for LGBT Alaskans. We are proud to be working closely with the ACLU of Alaska which has been helping to lead the struggle for LGBT equality for many years. We look forward to your future membership and involvement in both organizations.
There is much work to be done here in Alaska! As one of the first projects, we support the new marriage freedoms in California. We would like Alaskan couples who plan to travel to California to get married to contact us so we can support you and work with you in our shared goal of advancing LGBT rights in Alaska. There is media interested in interviewing Alaskan couples traveling to California to get married. Also we want to discourage Alaskan couples who marry in California from suing for marriage rights once they return to Alaska. While Alaska's LGBT couples deserve full marriage rights, given the current constitutional ban on gay marriage in Alaska, a lawsuit demanding marriage rights in Alaska is likely to lose and this loss would set us back even further.
If you are planning to travel to California to get married, please contact Tiffany McClain at
tmcclain@akclu.org. If you are interested in joining and learning more about Alaskans Together, please email
alaskanstogether@gmail.com
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Upcoming Events
Pride Week 2008: OUT is IN - Alaska, June 21-29.
See the full Pride Week schedule:
http://anchoragepride.com/schedule.htm
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