Tag Archives: Green-Lieght family

My story of 2009

By Mel | Published: Friday, 1 January 2010

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

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Despite distance

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Chris & Rozz & Jesse & Mel (with Jesse's dog Sweetheart) on a Kenai Peninsula hike in 2006 -- & now, all over the place. But still good friends.

Posted in Journal, NaNoWriMo | Also tagged Chris, Jesse, NaNoWriMo 2007, Ptery, Rozz, writing | Leave a comment

Diversity, unity, family

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 17 September 2009

Mayor Dan Sullivan claims, with his Mayor's Unity Dinner, to be honoring values we all share, including the importance of family. But his veto last month of the Anchorage equal rights ordinance makes it clear that he only deems some families important -- and mine's not one of them.

Posted in Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner | Also tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, crossposted, Dan Sullivan, family, lgbtq, True Diversity Dinner 2009 | 1 Comment

Tributaries (poem)

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 14 June 2009

I was offline most of — well, now I’ll say yesterday, Saturday, it now being early in the AM of Sunday the 14th. Saturday was the kick-off of this year’s PrideFest in Anchorage — the annual women’s show called Celebration of Change, & I performed in it again for the first time in 10 years. [...]

Posted in Poems | Also tagged Celebration of Change, poem, PrideFest, Ptery, Rozz | Leave a comment

We are all, or none

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 4 June 2009

Anchorage pollster Ivan Moore suggests the Anchorage Assembly remove "gender identity" and "gender expression" from coverage under the proposed equal rights ordinance -- in order to get the rigid right to agree. Sorry. I won't throw my trans sisters & brothers under the bus. And I'm not alone.

Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance, Transfolk | Also tagged Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Baptist Temple, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Andrew Halcro, gender expression, gender identity, Ivan Moore, Jerry Prevo, lgbtq, Mom, Ptery, sexual orientation, transgenderism, transsexuality | 6 Comments

Saying “I Love You” (poem)

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 31 May 2009

Saying “I Love You” Saturday I show him the video of the trip you and I took after we first met. It was almost four years ago. The tape starts with a pond along the highway to Valdez. There are swans, a beaver lodge, but of you and I there are voices only. He identifies them — “That’s you!” “That’s Rozz!” — but [...]

Posted in Marriage equality, Ordinance, Poems | Also tagged Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Czeslaw Milosz, Homer Alaska, Jesse, poem, poetry & politics, road trip, Rozz, same-sex marriage, Terrence des Pres, terza rima | 1 Comment

Divorce, financially interdependent partner style

By Mel | Published: Friday, 15 May 2009

Today is the final day of the University of Alaska system’s annual Open Enrollment period, when we have the opportunity to make changes to the various options in our benefits package. And so it came to formalize what Rozz, now Ptery, & I had come to agree to — that we’re not quite partners [...]

Posted in Journal, Marriage equality | Also tagged Ptery, Rozz, same-sex marriage, UAA | Leave a comment

Same-sex marriage: A personal history

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 9 May 2009

Good news from Maine Wednesday: its legislature passed, & its governor signed, a law making it legal for same-sex couples to marry. This makes Maine the 5th state in the U.S., after Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, & Iowa, to grant the same civil rights & responsibilities of marriage granted to heterosexual couples, to lesbian & gay [...]

Posted in Alaska politics, Itse, LGBTQ history, Marriage equality | Also tagged Alaska politics, friends, Gene Dugan, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, Jay Brause, Jesse, lgbtq, Melz history, One in 10, Out North, Ptery, Rozz, same-sex marriage | 5 Comments

Ptery’s recent Nevada travels

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Austin, NV to Silver City, NV — overnight last night just outside Fallon. Prior to Austin, he was in the Round City, NV area (per my post a few days ago), & both before & after Round City was around Tonopah, which is south of the area of this map. View Larger Map

Posted in Itse | Also tagged Google map, Nevada, Ptery, travel | Leave a comment