You know, Anchorage has always been a very tolerant and giving City. There is certainly not a reason in the world for anyone to worry about people that ID themselves as "gay". In my eyes, I am much more suspicious of people that ID as "progressive". 
Somewhat paradoxically, the Anchorage government is going Left while the country and the State are still to the Right. It sort of makes sense because government jobs are the natural domain of the Left. And I have seen little energy from the Right lately in ANC. As long as we enforce the tax cap - things pretty much stay under control. And of course, the D's always try to thwart the cap. It's the front line in the battle between socialism and free enterprise.