Very funny to watch ASL interpretation of “shoving your prolapsed anus back into your butt.” #dansavage (I bet @KTVA won’t retweet this #

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Harriet Drummond & Elvi Gray-Jackson talking with Pride parade Grand Marshal Doug Frank on Saturday, June 25, shortly before the accidental death of James L. Crump.

James L. Crump is the man who was accidentally killed in the first minutes of the Anchorage Pride parade last Saturday morning. I didn’t know him, but I’m writing quite a lot about him: his death has been shaking the Anchorage lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans/allied community ever since.

Last night my Assembly member Elvi Gray-Jackson and another of my favorite folks on the Assembly Harriet Drummond led the Anchorage Assembly in honoring James’ memory. It was a unanimous resolution — supposedly submitted by all 11 Assembly members as well as Mayor Dan Sullivan. But it was only Elvi & Harriet who were there at the Pride parade last Saturday — carrying a banner only a little behind where James was helping to carry his… until the accident that resulted in his death.  I personally think that several of the Assembly members only signed on (and the Mayor) because James was a well-like municipal employee — a nurse with the Muni’s Department of Health & Human Services.  But for Elvi & Harriet — it was heartfelt.

Harriet read the resolution in the Assembly last night. By the end, she had tears in her voice. Elvi was back behind the public testimony podium with members of James’ family — his parents, a brother, and a sister.  His family members were joined by numerous friends, present and former coworkers, and members of the LGBTQA community. I was up all night putting together a video of the event for my post on Bent Alaska about the resolution. The post also has the resolution’s full text.

A Service of Remembrance for James will be held tonight at 7 PM at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church at Lake Otis and Tudor. People are encouraged to bring something for a light potluck after the service.

• At Anchorage Assembly chambers for resolution by Elvi Gray-Jackson to honor & remember James L. Crump who died Saturday @ Pride parade. #fb #
• @melengland haven’t been on Twitter and just saw your tweet. thank you! in reply to melengland #
• RT @melengland: Tragedy @ Alaska Pride – Our prayers and love from NY @yksin http://t.co/4PY91N2 #ny4m #lgbt #nn11lgbt #fb #
• Just spoke w/ Elvi. She was originally going to introduce resolution in a couple of weeks but learned James’ family in town. #fb #
• Just got copy of AR No 2011-183 “A resolution of the Anchorage Assembly remembering recognizing and honoring the life of James L. Crump” #fb #
• Assembly meeting has not yet begun. People entering, most of Assembly here and seated. Some other business before resolution. #fb #
• I intend to video reading and discussion of resolution and will include in Bent Alaska post later tonight. #fb #
• Resolution honors James’ work as nurse for MOA Dept of Health & Human Svcs & as loved member of Anchorage LGBT community. #fb #
• Assembly just began. All assembly members here except Dick Traini. #fb #
• I think Ossiander just said resolution wd be heard at 530…? there are family members here. #fb #
• Traini now here. #fb #
• Harriet Drummond just said she had been at parade which was traumatic for so many & she is very glad resolution is happening. #fb #
• Now kicking out of twitter to be ready to video when resolution read. #fb #

Related posts:

1. Pride Slide: Photos from Alaska Pride Fest 2011
2. This one for you, James Crump
3. Anchorage PrideFest 2010

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Good to be back.

At SeaTac

• @alaskacommons now at Alaska Lodge at intersection of security & route to D&N gates – with chowder & salad & a big damn glass of wine in reply to alaskacommons#
• @alaskacommons and wifi connection here sucks so I may not get anything you answer in reply to alaskacommons#
• RT @cynisright: @yksin it was lovely to meet you. Will keep in touch. // Right back at you! currently sipping wine at SeaTac #
• @ZackFord Sympathizing w/ yr airplane woes. Merlot during 4 hr layover in a SeaTac bar seems more pleasant. Strike that: it IS more pleasant in reply to ZackFord#
• I nominate this as tweet of the day RT @AMERICAblogGay Dan Choi in the Larry Craig memorial bathroom at MSP airport. http://t.co/MKGsLjDin reply to AMERICAblogGay#
• RT @ZackFord: @yksin haha, jealous. Safe travels back to Alaska! // safe flight to you too! #
• OMG. I agree w/ Todd Palin on something! Location 5830 of 6464 of Kindle version of “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin.” Prize to right answer #
• Sitting on floor indecently close to SeaTac restroom to recharge iPod. #
• RT @philcrone: @joshtpm maltese // I’m impressed. #
• @Mudflats Guy on shuttle from Hilton sd “great sticker”: Seattle PI writer @ #nn11 who has written often abt Pebble Mine. #
• RT @ZackFord: Oy, finally landed back in DC after quite a delay. Still what a great week at #nn11 #nn11lgbt! / & here I still sit @ SeaTac #
• @cynisright damn. Luggage. And still an hr to wait fory 3 hr flight to Anchorage. @uaajc better be really nice to me tomorrow. in reply to cynisright#
• @gregpalmer tatum o’nealnis Ryan O’Neal’s _daughter_. Starred w/ him as kid in “Paper Moon.” wienergate relevance? Beats me in reply to gregpalmer#
• @gregpalmer Ryan O’Neal famous actor of 1970s-1980s. Biggest movie “Love Story.” (sucked) Was Farrah Fawcett’s husband. in reply to gregpalmer#
• @cynisright Alaska Airlines. This is just price I’m paying for piggybacking earlier Portland sidetrip on #nn11 & still getting cheap fare. in reply to cynisright#
• @cynisright nope. Working tomorrow. Possibly made-up for by getting to see midseason finale of Doctor Who on DVR tomorrow night. in reply to cynisright#
• Bow ties are cool. — The Eleventh Doctor. #
• I forgot about these funny loud glug glug water fountains at SeaTac. Damn, they’re loud. #
• At my gate. Boarding in 10 mins. 2 guys sitting over there either gay or military. Or both. Shhh. No worries guys. I won’t ask. I won’t tell #
• It’s only a paper moon / floating over a cardboard sea / but it wouldn’t be make believe / if you believed in me #
• @cynisright thx in reply to cynisright#
• Bye Twitter. See you on the other side. #AlaskaFlight107#

Anchorage

• Anchorage. #fb#
• Taxi. #fb#
• Home. #fb#
• Bed. #fb#
• Cat. #fb#

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Closing keynote at Netroots Nation, and some of the over 2,500 progressives who attended it.

My more narrative account of this day — such as it is — can be found on Bent Alaska under the title “Bringing Netroots home to Alaska.”

I slept in a bit.  The day began with a look out my hotel window at the Hilton — to see attendees of the Right Online conference, a sort of pale rightwing imitation of Netroots Nation — arriving for their day’s sessions.

• Here come the rightwingers. #nn11 #inthehiltoninaroomoverlookingtheentrance #

10:30-11:45 AM. Queer Media and the Alternative Revolution

• Good morning from Netroots Nation. Starting my day at 1030 session on Queer Media & the Alternative Revolution. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• Alternative queer media for LGBT who don’t fit the one-size-fits-all version of LGBT #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• LGBT youth, people of color, “dorks” who love obscure SF references… #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• “if you don’t like porn & have a dissertation & there’s nothing in the middle” #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @wondermann5: It is good to know Gay Geeks are out there! #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @SethEKaye: “The best way to convey these experiences, is to have someone that lives them explain it for themselves.” #NN11LGBT #nn11 #
• RT @YCarrillo4: race, class & gender affect our queerness. #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
• RT @ZackFord: Lots of broad generalizations being made at the #nn11lgbt alternative queer media panel — some valid, some not. #nn11#
• RT @_floatingworld: Queer Alternative Media | Stink is referencing decades of gay artists writing straight songs. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @JoeMyGod: I reject tokenism merely as a tool to inject a “non-white male” aspect into LGBT media. #NN11LGBT #nn11 #
• Thinking what Queer Alternative media wd look like for a Inupiat Eskimo kid from Barrow, AK (which just had 1st pride event) #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @soiledhands: I came out in SF in 1977, age 20. It’s interesting how tension betw/ normals and noncorms is constant. #nn11lgbt // agree #
• RT @soiledhands: I appreciate Heidi’s emphasis on accessible language and making the message pleasurable #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
• Not just youth need alternatives. I’m a 52 it old dyke SF/F geek/dork writer loner in a low pop very red state … #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• And there’s rural, there’s isolated, there’s disabled, there’s… #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @ZackFord: I’m having trouble understanding why alt to hegemonic mainstream queer media is substanceless culture fluff pieces. #nn11lgbt#
• RT @Clarknt67: Dichotomy? Members of queer commty that..define selves as apart from mainstream & object to marginalization? #LGBT #nn11lgbt #
• RT @YCarrillo4: “The idea of post-gay is built on the assumption that we are beyond the closet.” #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
• RT @wondermann5: Is the idea of “Post Gay” an example of privilege? #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• Recognition for younger queers of elders that paved the way, but struggle not over. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @ZackFord: My questions about “post-gay” Is anybody actually saying it and does it actually mean anything? #nn11lgbt / my ? too #nn11#
• “Post gay” is irrelevant term in world where a band pulls out of a neighborhood block party b/c there’ll be “fag shit” there #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• I.e., “post gay” (as well as post racial) is theoretical bullshit. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @allisonpalmer: Wishing we cd hear more about politics/activism – fans of alternative music/culture not always activists #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @ZackFord: @cynisright @yksin Like how America is “post-racial” b/c Obama got elected? Last time I checked that was white privilege BS. #
• RT @ZackFord: I wonder if “alt” is not evolution of gay culture so much as rebellion against dense queer population in cities. #nn11lgbt#
• @ZackFord yes, this “alt queer media” really foreign to me coming from low density state. Tho maybe diff for youth.#nn11 #nn11lgbtin reply to ZackFord#
• RT @SethEKaye: I think dichotomy of alt/mainstream and culture/politics is quite unqueer. Creating separate worlds ain’t so good. #NN11LGBT#
• RT @jillmarcellus: .KCDanger: “Everything is a queer woman’s issue if you’re a queer woman” #NN11 #NN11LGBT #
• I appreciate the panelists are reaching for something, but a lot of fuzzy thinking here. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @cynisright: Not all gay media is abt building community – it’s abt building a certain TYPE of community (some still exclusive) #nn11lgbt#
• My @bentalaska perspective: 1 LGBT blog in whole state: we just need to get as wide spectrum as voices as will even write. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• We are for most part only queer media in state. We can’t afford distinctions of “mainstream” v “alternative.” #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• This is OUR prob to solve, not this panel’s. But the overall urban sense of this discussion does leave out much experience. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @cynisright: @yksin – Shouldn’t try to segregate – that is the issue with the media and lgbt media is emulating it! #nn11lgbt #nn11 #
• @cynisright Agreed. Its actually some benefit for my state we can’t afford to in first place. #nn11 #nn11lgbt in reply to cynisright#
• @cynisright OTOH unique characteristics of AK urban/rural divide lead to builtin segregations (esp white v AK Native) #nn11 #nn11lgbt in reply to cynisright#
• RT @Clarknt67: 18 yrs in Mass Media I often see ppl presume bigotry or hate in exclusion; ignorance or simple human error suffice #nn11lgbt#
• @cynisright Partly an infrastructure issue: no roads in Bush Alaska. But also cultural diffs & outright racism. #nn11 #nn11lgbt in reply to cynisright#
• @cynisright I think people have hard time dealing w difference. We get taught to be “like” other people not diff. And suspicious of diff in reply to cynisright#
• @cynisright it’s a really good question. A foundational question. in reply to cynisright#

1:30-2:45 PM. The Plan to Advance Marriage Equality, Inside and Outside of the 112th Congress

I was distracted and too tired to pay very close attention to this session, I’m afraid. But it was livestreamed, so I’m hoping to catch up with it in archived footage (and a check back through the timeline of other people’s tweets.  Some of my retweets here referred back to the earlier session on queer alternative media.

• Arriving late to marriage equality panel after lunch w/ longtime online friend, first F2F meeting. (Hi Laurel!!) #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @szumwalt: My takeaway from @JoeSudbay marriage panel: the poster ppl of gay rights movement should be our straight allies. #nn11lgbt#
• RT @RyanNewYork: RT @IEquality: Nadler: “No one under 35 understands the controversy” on changing social norms. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @Clarknt67: @Pam_Spaulding appeals to Blue State #LGBTs to not forsake our brothers & sisters elsewhere. #nn11lgbt #nn11 / THX Pam! #
• Re queer alt media panel @cynisright said @rodmccullom They didn’t know how to answer how to integrate lgbt media more when asked. #nn11lgbt#
• RT @interstateq: #NN11LGBT Broad criticism will do nothing to solve gaps in #LGBT #media #diversityhttp://t.co/XtOy9o7 #nn11#
• “You cant really evolve if you don’t discuss how you’re evolving & why you’re evolving.” – @Pam_Spaulding‎ on Obama’s #SSM stance #nn11lgbt#
• RT @Clarknt67: Great mixer of panelists on #nn11 marriage; DC & NC blogger, voter organizer, legal expert, Congressman #nn11lgbt #LGBT #
• I’m not tracking well – very tired. But marriage equality/DOMA session being livestreamed at #nn11 website #nn11lgbt#

Part of my distraction at the marriage equality session was discovering comments awaiting moderation at Bent Alaska.

• RT: @bentalaska: On our blog > A Big Wild Lesbian at Netroots Nation (by @yksin) http://goo.gl/fb/6fi45 #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• Lost track of marriage equality/DOMA panel at #nn11 due to personal attack at my last @bentalaska post at http://goo.gl/fb/6fi45 #nn11lgbt#
• Please feel to weigh in (with civility, please) of your own opinion of at http://goo.gl/fb/6fi45 #nn11 #nn11lgbt #

I discovered that Sarah Posner of one of my important news sources, Religion Dispatches, was at the conference, and decided I wanted to meet her.

• RT: @sarahposner: “White people have to talk to white people about white privilege.” – @joseiswriting #nn11#
• @sarahposner Just saw you’re at #nn11 – I’m a big fan of your work writing for Alaska LGBTQ blog @bentalaska – greetings #

3:oo-4:15 PM. How to Make Blogging Sustainable

• Now at “How to make blogging sustainable” session at #nn11 but so tired I’m having a hard time tracking. #
• @hellorobster Wow, thank you. Where did we meet? … I think the attacker may be a local Anchorage homophobe who also attacked a week ago. in reply to hellorobster#

4:15-5:00 PM. Bourbon and Bacon Tasting Happy Hour

• @SierraClubMN darn, sorry I missed picking up my underwear! Good luck w/ the campaign. in reply to SierraClubMN#
• @sarahposner wd very much like to talk! I’m here in a very orange hoodie. in reply to sarahposner#
• @SierraClubMN thank you I’ll do that! in reply to SierraClubMN#
• @hellorobster thank you, this means a lot. in reply to hellorobster#
• @sarahposner I’m looking in reply to sarahposner#
• Almost to end of #nn11 – just closing keynote to go. Then I’m going to my hotel to sleep. #fb#
• And – no more wine or beer for me at this conference. Best antidote to my exhaustion & stress now: rest. #nn11 #fb m #

5:00-6:30 PM. Closing Keynote — Freedom from Fear: First Person Voices from the Movement

• @alaskacommons is there a John Aronno in the house? (at #nn11 closing keynote) #
• RT @theuptake: MSNBC host Cenk Uygur giving closing keynote, Freedom from Fear. http://theuptake.org #NN11#
• RT @deciminyan: “Our founding fathers were liberals” Cenk Uygur at #NN11#
• RT @deciminyan: Corporations are not human beings, they are soulless machines. – Cenk Uygur at #NN11#
• RT @alaskacommons: @yksin Yeppers! Whereabouts? I’m in my signature orange near ebtrance #
• RT @yksin: RT @alaskacommons: @yksin Yeppers! Whereabouts? I’m in my signature orange near ebtrance — ah, that shd say entrance #
• Providence, Rhode Island will be site of Netroots Nation in 2012. Okay – I now officially want to go, gods help me. #NN11 #fb #
• RT @kgosztola: Hotel workers at Westin in Providence led #NN11 to boycott, hold conference in Minneapolis -Sen. Whitehouse #
• RT @alaskacommons: Netroots 2012 will be in Rhode Island. Guess I break out the penny jar tomorrow! #NN11 #NN12 #
• RT @alaskacommons: @yksin We’re down in the center front. // looking #
• #nn11 is biggest Netroots conf ever. Pay it forward to make next year’s even bigger/better. #
• As a scholarship attendee (via LGBT Netroots Connect) thank you Netroots for helping me & others attend #nn11 (& #nn11lgbt#
• RT @pandagon: #nn11 should wait until #ro11 announces a location for their 2012 conference & then announce that we’re actually in Portland. #
• RT @wiremedia: Dear Netroots Nation, this is my first time attending. It’s fantastic and we’ll be back! Thanks! #nn11#
• RT @kgosztola: Outernational band at #nn11 rocks with music that’s like CSNY & Rage Against the Machine deftly blended #
• RT @deciminyan: Jennifer Fernandez Ancona is introducing the Freedom from Fear Award. She worked on the Dean campaign. #NN11#
• too tired to do much but take pics & retweet. Thx #NN11 peeps for writing great tweets for me to pass on. #
• RT @Ada_Vodkar: RT @kgosztola: Time for deep patriots to stand up to cheap patriots @VanJones68 #nn11#
• RT @drdigipol: This is the biggest Netroots conference ever. 2500+. Can our copycats at #ro11 even come close? Hardly. #nn11#
• RT @fiorentina5: #Cenk at #nn11 called out bigot @RepPeteKing#
• RT @zackfarley: Before heading out the door, thank the staffers who made #nn11 happen. A job well done. #
• RT @ZackFord: At ZFb: #NN11 Dispatch: Building Trust, Building Coalitions – http://bit.ly/lFPS3i #NN11LGBT #LGBT #
• RT @IEquality: First #FFFAward winner Immigrant Youth Justice League. #nn11 #nn11lgbt #
• RT @JoshRosenau: Jill Sobule sings original song: “When they say we want our America back, what the fuck does it mean?” Awesomesauce. #nn11#
• RT @shannynmoore: We have a new theme song, #nn11#
• hanging out w/ several other Alaskans at #nn11 closing keynote #
• Jeanne Devon of @Mudflats @shannynmoore John Aronno of @alaskacommons Dave Turnbull & me of @bentalaska — AK in Netroots Nation #nn11#
• RT @exileinflyville: “We’re not afraid of some fictional Sharia law that they wanna invent.” @KeithEllison #nn11#
• RT @YCarrillo4: “When we can walk w/the president then lets but, when we can’t, let’s get ahead of him.” – @keithellison #nn11#
• RT @_LaTania: Last song dedicated to #FFFA & #undocumented youth in deportation proceedings #nn11 Take Action here http://j.mp/k9ihIl#
• Heading for the Hilton for sleep. I plan to avoid rightwingers. #nn11#
• Just touched base w/ home to remind the boy (as I still call him) that I’ll be home tom. night. Feels good to know that’s what I go home to. #
• RT @Clarknt67: What he said. RT @melengland: thx @Netroots_Nation & #nn11lgbt for an AMAZING weekend! Big special thx to @MichaelRogersDC!! #

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