06 Dec 2012
Posted by Shane Castle December will likely produce an answer as to whether the proposed non-discrimination ordinance will pass in Helena. We do not know exactly what the final language will be, of course, but this paper supports the basic precepts of the ordinance as drafted so far, and its spirit. The most substantive...
Read more → 01 Nov 2012
Posted by Shane Castle 
The city of Helena is poised to start the public-hearing process for a local anti-discrimination ordinance. That simple sentence was 10 months in the making, but for some interested parties, it’s been more like decades. The ordinance would make it illegal for people to discriminate against lesbian,...
Read more → 02 Aug 2012
Posted by Shane Castle 
A petition supporting an ordinance intended to protect LGBT people from discrimination in Helena has received more than 3,000 signatures since the ordinance first made news in November, but, as the number of supporters grows, so does the relatively small number of incidents in which opponents act uncivilly...
Read more → 05 Apr 2012
Posted by Shane Castle By the beginning of April, the city commission hadn’t yet seen a draft of a proposed non-discrimination ordinance intended to protect LGBT people, but two groups of citizens with opposing viewpoints had already come forward at meetings to offer commissioners advice about how, or how not, to move forward. The...
Read more → 03 Nov 2011
Posted by Shane Castle A locally based human-rights group has begun preliminary outreach efforts aimed at amending Helena’s city ordinances so they will do what state law does not: explicitly protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination. Montana Human Rights Network successfully lobbied...
Read more → 21 Sep 2011
Posted by Shane Castle 
Tuesday's repeal of the U.S. military's controversial Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy may have seemed like distant news for many Helenans, but it was cause for the local LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community and friends to celebrate. The celebration event, held at the Rialto,...
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