Several Alaskans said celebrating Pride feels especially important this year as LGBTQIA2S+ community members have been increasingly targeted in legislation and other measures pursued in the state and across the country.
, which as initially drafted would’ve required parental permission for students to change their name or pronouns in school and prohibited transgender students from using single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity.
Finding Alaska’s queer community has “very much felt like home,” Stokes said. “People say the queer community here is small, but definitely to me, it’s very large.”This Pride, Stokes said, he is celebrating the “huge amount of community care, empathy and love,” and that this month is about creating safe spaces for members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community to both grieve and celebrate.
“I definitely think that queer joy is an act of resistance and rebellion,” said Stokes, who also serves on Identity’s board.At a recent drag storytime hosted by Wasilla’s Black Birch Books, Vincent Feuilles, a founder of the nonprofit, witnessed what he described as a spike in animosity from the more than a dozen people protesting the event.
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