Though he finished his first Iditarod, musher Will Troshynski still feels like a rookie. Due to the pandemic, the 2021 race took a different route. While as difficult as any other course, it started and finished in Willow and missed iconic moments. 

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and gender expansive people in Alaska have some of the same mental health issues and joys as anyone anywhere. In Alaska, however, people also face high rates depression, anxiety and other health issues in the overall population, and LGBTQ+ people fa…

By Laura Carpenter

‘31 Subway Keith Haring Drawings’ offers large illustrations of his white chalk on black paper subway drawings. Works that still exist are, of course, valuable. 

Once again, Vice Chair of the Anchorage Assembly Christopher Constant was subjected to hate, which came in the form of an email sent to his Municipal email account by an Anchorage resident late Monday night.

The Anchorage Youth Advisory Commission (YAC) has worked over the years to promote the voices of youth in municipal government through collaboration, camaraderie, and candor — but according to one now former member of YAC — the commission, now under the oppressive far-right hand of the Brons…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider’s dazzling streak is over, snapped Wednesday by a Chicago librarian after 40 consecutive wins and nearly $1.4 million in prize money.

Jon Gruden had to go.

COVID’s messing with our craft beer community again and our breweries need your help. If you’re afraid that the new, more contagious Delta variant of COVID might shut down bars, breweries and events where people are gathered, you might want to consider attending the October 16, 1-4 pm Alaska…

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NEW YORK (AP) — After an off-season of some mystery involving several favorite performers, “Saturday Night Live” said it was returning for its 47th year this weekend with all but one of its incumbent cast members on board.

AK Rockstar Karaoke held its 2021 AK Rockstar Competition Sept. 12-19 at Carousel Lounge in Spenard.There were two qualifying rounds and the final round on September 19th. 64 singers, in all, tried out. The final 12 competed and the top 3 were the winners.First place received $1,000 in cash.…

In the nineties, I asked George Rogers, one of the writers of the Alaska state constitution, what happened here in Juneau in the ’60s when gay men were sent away.

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the "don't ask, don't tell" repeal, which ended the 17-year military personnel policy enforced by the Defense Department and the military services.

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado's Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected governor in 2018, has married his longtime partner and first gentleman Marlon Reis, a writer and animal welfare advocate.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.

Editor’s Note: After multiple attempts to seek comment from Holy Rosary Academy the school’s headmaster has declined to respond to questions. In emails sent to all of the Catholic Schools within Anchorage, there was one reply, that from Brian Ross, principal of Lumen Christi High School, who wrote:

TOKYO (AP) — Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard finally got to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. 

TOKYO (AP) — For Quinn, a midfielder for the Canadian women's soccer team, the opening match of the Tokyo Games carried more emotional weight than their previous Olympic appearances. 

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some bookstores in Hungary placed notices at their entrances this week telling customers that they sell "non-traditional content.” The signs went up in response to a new law that prohibits “depicting or promoting” homosexuality and gender transitions in material acce…

A Nashville Predators prospect has come out as gay, a milestone moment for the sport of hockey as the first player signed to an NHL contract to make that declaration publicly.

Soldotna-based “Narrow Roads Production” has declined to photograph the wedding of a same-sex couple who sought the company’s services to memorialize their wedding.

I just attended the nauseating wedding of my 30-year-old niece to her boyfriend of several years. Both of them seem as gay as possible but they are diehard religious fanatics. I can list fifty signs these two are gay and once you point it out to someone who isn’t a bible thumper they go, “Ye…

In classic romantic comedy fashion, Benny McCarr was set to board a plane to Hawaii when he was intercepted at the airport by Robert, a young man from Boston, whom he’d met just a day earlier.

Until recently, my journey with journalism had been limited to the music and nightlife scene, a community with which I have been deeply involved for almost two years. I have worked with friends and colleagues that I have known since I began performing, mostly musicians, bartenders and busine…

The age-old trope of a father discovering his son is gay and throwing him out onto the streets is getting older day by day. But that doesn’t mean stories like that don’t still happen in real life, and even if being gay doesn’t lead to LGBT+ youths being disowned at the rate it once did, it d…

The Pride Flag was raised over Anchorage’s City Hall Monday for the first time in the city’s history. In attendance were Alaska State Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson, Assembly members Christopher Constant, Forrest Dunbar, and Felix Rivera.

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

Every once in a blue moon I will encounter people who simply radiate love and confidence, in themselves and others. I have recently had the pleasure of meeting one of those beacons of hope, MoHagani Magnetik. MoHagani is a writer, archaeologist, public speaker, cook and practitioner of kung …

I think I’m a little more queer than I’ve been giving myself credit for. It’s not like this has been some huge discovery, after one of the literal first house parties I went to as a teenager I tried to climb into some hippie dude’s bed in Cordova. And while it was a certain kind of amusing t…

Pride Month in June honors the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) community. Pride is a time to celebrate who you are and who you love. It is time to recognize how far we’ve come and how far we have to go. It is time to hold your sweetheart’s hand without fear. It is a ti…

The spring of 2021 has been an especially proud season for the Coast Guard in Alaska. Members at Sector Anchorage hosted an historic inaugural event at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson April 16, establishing the Northern Lights Chapter of Coast Guard Spectrum, an affiliate of the Department o…

Regardless of someone’s level of independence, we all need a friend sometimes. The way human beings have evolved, biologically and socially, we simply cannot thrive on our own. Community is essential to the success and wellbeing of any person, and there are said to be five elements of commun…

A pioneer, an entrepreneur and a survivor in the fight against substance abuse, Catelyn Schnell has made her personality and her brand virtually one-and-the same.

The Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (AERC) was established in the Anchorage Charter in 1975 and is the municipal law enforcement agency charged with preventing and eliminating unlawful discrimination under Title 5 of the Anchorage Municipal Code. 

In the mid-1960s, my dad served on the school board in Cortez, in rural southern Colorado.  He recalled that at one meeting he said something a little too liberal because a fellow board member invited him to “step outside.”

When she was at Harvard Law School two decades ago, Kelly Tshibaka wrote columns that generated some controversy, including one in which she said that “Homosexuals can come out of homosexuality because their preference is not biologically mandated. Unlike race or gender, homosexuality is a choice.”

David Bronson launched his bid to become Anchorage’s next mayor last August on the back of the Save Anchorage Facebook group — a group which often makes local news when group members engage in newsworthy behavior. Bronson’s current campaign is just one more in a long chain of efforts to exer…

I know that I’m a prisoner

Identity, Inc.’s board of directors is pleased to announce that Laura Carpenter (they/them/she/her) has accepted the position of Executive Director, beginning Monday, July 6.

Veteran Tirzah Parrish LeFeber served in the US Air Force for eight years, moving anywhere from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas to Balad, Iraq. While serving one’s country can create many difficult experiences for military personnel, Parrish LeFeber had one additional hardship in the service.

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In 1988, Veteran Kevin Matier joined the United States Air Force to work as an aerospace ground equipment mechanic. During those four years he never told anyone he was gay.