Stefan Warner Credit: Mark Hancock Before dawn on Feb. 11 in the Seminole County town of Schoolton, Stefan Warner, youth pastor at Church of the Open Arms in Oklahoma City, suspended himself high above the ground to construction machinery used to build the Keystone XL pipeline. “I ascended a side boom and attached a platform […]
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Loan rangers
OU campus Credit: Mark Hancock A big chunk of that, not surprisingly, is the tab for college loans. Since 2008, the study found that student loan debt has “increased by $303 billion, while other forms of debt fell a combined $1.6 trillion.” In the aftermath of the worst recession since the Great Depression, young college […]
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An evolution of pride
OKC gay pride 2010 Maria Atkinson The day before the parade, however, OKC Pride comes downtown for the first time, moving its annual Pride Festival from Memorial Park to the Film Exchange District for a full day of live music, exhibitions, art and food. The move downtown is not without significance for Oklahoma City and […]
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From closet to community: part two
The night that Oklahoma City police officers raided a gay club on the corner of N.W. 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, local businessman Robert Tim Gravel sat inside the popular establishment. Within seconds of entering Angles, the police arrested Gravel for his alleged public intoxication, removed him from the club, and took him away in […]
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From closet to community: part two
The night that Oklahoma City police officers raided a gay club on the corner of N.W. 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, local businessman Robert Tim Gravel sat inside the popular establishment. Within seconds of entering Angles, the police arrested Gravel for his alleged public intoxication, removed him from the club, and took him away in […]
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From closet to community: part two
The night that Oklahoma City police officers raided a gay club on the corner of N.W. 39th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, local businessman Robert Tim Gravel sat inside the popular establishment. Within seconds of entering Angles, the police arrested Gravel for his alleged public intoxication, removed him from the club, and took him away in […]
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From closet to community
A local, non-emergency transport service refused to take the 17-year-old Oklahoman to his hospital visits, insisting that medical officials first explain precisely how AIDS moved from person to person. After each hospital trip, they sterilized their van from top to bottom; medical technicians wore hazardous material suits to avoid touching him and used a telephone […]
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The funny thing about OKC
Asked in a recent poll to cite the most pressing problems facing the state, Okla-homans named the state’s economy and unemployment as their greatest concerns. At 23 percent and 22 percent, respectively, the state’s economic and unemployment woes weigh heaviest on the minds of Oklahomans struggling to make their way through the worst economic […]