Written by We’re not utterly mannerless savages here at Gay News, s0 we think it’s only proper to pause, reflect, and share a moment of silent gratitude for Pastor Phillip Wilson–the best little jingle writer in the gay promotion business. Sure, we’d like to take credit for gems like, “Eureka Springs is a gay Mecca,” or “Eureka [...]
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City officials continue to dodge the fiery pit of eternal Hell. The AFA wants to know why
Those cards, letters and now–computer viruses–keep pouring in from the American Family Association (AFA.) A brief lull was reported on Sunday, while AFA supporters enjoyed fire, brimstone and a hearty dinner of fried chicken and Parker House rolls. By late afternoon on Monday, Eureka Springs city officials reported that the AFA’s messages of Christian love, [...]
READ MORE »What’s that splattering sound? Did something just hit the fan?
Gay News Bureau’s tipster hotline has been sizzling like a hunka hunka burning love this weekend. It seems that every city official with a pulse, and an email address, has been buried with e-bombs from the American Family Association. Yes, that’s right. The folks who seized their most recent 15 minutes of fame by blaming [...]
READ MORE »Eureka Springs Domestic Partnership Registry Opens Today
(Eureka Springs, AR) — One hundred seventy three days after four ordinary civilians armed with laptop computers hunkered down in a Eureka Springs living room to Google the subject, the first Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas became a reality today. Even before the doors of Eureka City hall opened this morning, eleven couples–10 gay or [...]
READ MORE »Eureka Springs Says Yes to Love with First Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas Beginning June 22
(Eureka Springs, AR) For the second time in two days, an anti-gay minister’s eleventh-hour attempt to halt enactment of the state’s first Domestic Partnership Registry failed Thursday. As a result, the Eureka Springs Registry will go into effect as scheduled today (June 22). Fundamentalist preacher Philip “Flip” Wilson yesterday submitted a fundamentally flawed petition seeking [...]
READ MORE »It’s on. It’s off. It’s on again.
When you last heard from us about the Eureka Springs Domestic Partnership Registry, we thought the registry had been blocked by a successful referendum petition. Turns out, that’s not so. The petition was declared to be “insufficient” today by MJ Sell, City Clerk/Treasurer of Eureka Springs. Yes, opponent Rev. Phillip Wilson and his merry band [...]
READ MORE »Fishing in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
OMC – Which these days stands for “Oh My Cod!” Seems the fundies are still fishing for signatures for a referendum petition to put the Domestic Partnership Registry on hold. Again. Last week, they turned in their names to the Eureka Springs City Clerk for certification. The next step of the process would have been [...]
READ MORE »Citizen group organizes to defeat the referendum vote
Citizen activists in Eureka Springs, AR have announced the formation of a new project, “Com3,” which is dedicated to ensuring a win for civil rights in the upcoming referendum vote on Eureka Springs Ordinance 2052, the Domestic Partnership Registry. Organizers Marie Howard, Trella Laughlin and Barbara Lightner plan voter registration and education activities, plus an [...]
READ MORE »First Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas on hold
Blockage of the state’s first Domestic Partnership Registry–scheduled to take effect June 22–has left advocates more determined than ever to see the measure implemented later this summer.
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