ALASKA GAY COALITION v. SULLIVAN

No. 3083.

578 P.2d 951 (1978)

The ALASKA GAY COALITION, a Nonprofit Organization, Appellant, v. George M. SULLIVAN, Bruce Staser and Municipality of Anchorage, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Kulik, Sue Ellen Tatter, Anchorage, for appellant.

Peter C. Ginder, Asst. Municipal Atty., Richard Garnett, III, Municipal Atty., Anchorage, for appellees.

Craig M. Cornish, James S. Crane, Robert Krase and Robert E. Mintz, Anchorage, for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

In this appeal we are called upon to determine whether the Municipality of Anchorage's exclusion of the Alaska Gay Coalition from the 1976-77 Anchorage Blue Book, a government publication, denied that organization its constitutional rights to freedom of speech and association and equal protection of the law. The superior court ruled that the Municipality's action did not violate the Gay Coalition's constitutional rights. We...

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