Written by Thursday, October 27, 2011: 9:00 PM – Diversity Kick-Off featuring Miranda Ray. Henri’s Just One More – 19 1⁄2 Spring Street Friday, October 28, 2011: 3:00 PM – Maia Archote. Among a swarm of benefits, house concerts, festivals, and bar gigs, Maia has opened for the likes of: Marcia Ball and Badfinger. Eureka Live Underground [...]
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Events schedule for Eureka Springs Equality Weekend, Sept. 16-18
Locals and tourists will find plenty to do during Equality Weekend thanks to community-minded individuals and business and civic groups that have (without any organizational sponsorship and no money whatsoever) created a one-of-a-kind festival built around–of all unlikely themes–civil rights. Only in Eureka Springs . . . September 12-18: Equality in Print: Carnegie Library, 194 [...]
READ MORE »Arrival of ‘Equality Bus’ leads to Equality Weekend in Eureka Springs
Eureka Springs, AR has been added to the list of cities to be visited by the Human Rights Campaign’s “equality bus” which over the course of 12 weeks will stop in 17 cities in 11 states and the District of Columbia. The purpose of the tour is to promote equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and [...]
READ MORE »Governor Beebe and the Stonewall Democrats
Written by I missed the initial reports on Governor Beebe’s meeting with the Arkansas Stonewall Democrats. Ironically, I was vacationing in New York and the District of Columbia–both places where the question of whether I deserve to have the same rights as any other American citizen is settled (and where the answer is, “yes I do”)–while the [...]
READ MORE »Eureka Springs first in state to offer health insurance coverage to domestic partners of city workers
(EUREKA SPRINGS, AR) — The only city in Arkansas with a Domestic Partnership Registry today became the first city in the state to provide health care coverage for the domestic partners of municipal workers. The city’s insurance provider, the Arkansas Municipal League, notified the city that beginning January 1, 2011 both same- and opposite-sex partners [...]
READ MORE »Soulorce.org returns to Arkansas for it’s “Catholic Action”
Written by The background of this campaign: For the first time at the United Nations in December 2008, a statement was heard on the support of equal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. French Minister of Human Rights and Foreign Affairs Rama Yade began the effort in early 2008 to create U.N.-backed protections for LGBT [...]
READ MORE »ALL Families Matter in Arkansas – Or Do They?
Written by ALL Families Matter Randi M. Romo As November approaches, many in Arkansas are lining up on different sides of the fence regarding Initiated Act 1 and its attempt to ban unmarried heterosexual, lesbian and gay couples from providing foster care or adopting. Sadly, the most vulnerable, children in need of good homes are [...]
READ MORE »Another thumbs-down review for AFA gay-bashing video
Written by Fayetteville writer and cable talk-show host Richard Drake gives a no-star rating to the American Family Association’s hate-based travelogue about Eureka Springs on his Arkansas Times blog. “They’re Coming to Your Town” tells the story of this small Christian oriented community that was invaded – invaded, I say! – by hordes of godless folk in [...]
READ MORE »Gay & Gray and Invisible
Nursing homes unprepared to nurture lesbian and gay elders Thanks to radio journalist Jacqueline Froelich, KAUF National Public Radio has been the only mainstream media outlet in Arkansas to report on the American Family Association’s anti-gay video about Eureka Springs, “They’re Coming to Your Town.” Here’s a link to her KUAF podcast on the subject: [...]
READ MORE »Queerly, It’s like getting an Academy award….
Wow. All we can say is WOW ! First, we’d like to thank the Academy..whoops, wrong organization. We’d like to thank the Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce, the Eureka Springs City Advertising and Promotion Commission (CAPC), the tourism CO-OP headed up by the guru general manager of Eureka’s Historic Hotels, Rev Phillip aka Flip Wilson, [...]
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