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Editor in Chief Susan Horowitz

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Associate News Editor Jessica Carreras 12 17 21 33 Arts & Theater Editor Donald V. Calamia 12 Obama heckled at Contributing Writers News Life Charles Alexander, Paul Berg, fundraiser – again Wayne Besen, D.A. Blackburn, HIV, gay rights advocates cite ‘broken Dave Brousseau, Michelle E. Brown, 5 Between Ourselves 17 All Over Adam Levine John Corvino, Jack Fertig, Emily Brown promises’ at N.Y. event Maroon 5 frontman on new album, bedroom Joan Hilty, Lucy Hough, Lisa Keen, Jim Larkin, Anthony Paull, behavior and being so cool with the queers Crystal Proxmire, Bob Roehr, 6 Michigan Walks! 13 Judge orders lesbian Gregg Shapiro, Jody Valley, Detroit chapter of statewide HIV/AIDS services reinstated to Air Force D’Anne Witkowski, Imani Williams 20 Hear Me Out Rex Wockner, Dan Woog fundraisers sees 450 attendees, $28K raised Senate filibuster of DADT repeal combats with KT Tunstall roars back with “Tiger Suit.” Plus: two pro-gay court rulings Maroon 5 stays safe with latest Contributing Photographers Andrew Potter 6 44 percent of gay, bisexual Emily Locklear men with HIV don’t know it 13 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” 21 The OutField injunction now up to judge Straight talk on gay softball Webmaster & MIS Director CDC study: One in five sexual active gay or Kevin Bryant bisexual men has virus DOJ says legal filing does not detract from Obama’s stance on anti-gay military policy 22 Cool Cities: Ann Arbor ADVERTISING & SALES 7 Viewpoint TV show takes on local restaurant’s monster Director of Sales Where is the commitment to helping with HIV/ 13 Ten states file anti-gay nachos Jan Stevenson AIDS drugs? marriage brief Sales Representatives Document asserts marriage laws lie with state, 25 Curtain Calls Linda Brincat 10 Through the Kaleidoscope’s not federal courts Reviews of “Sonia Flew” and “Play It Again, Ann Cox lens Sam” National Advertising Ruth Ellis Center fundraiser celebrates 14 International News Briefs Representative voguing, LGBT youth Gays, others protest pope in London 26 Happenings Rivendell Media, 212.242.6863 Featured: LeAnn Rimes at 8 p.m. Oct. 2 in Macomb Business Office 10 LGBT History Month Diane Smith Nancy Blankenship Preview Opinions UM-Dearborn to honor gay past with series of Rear View Circulation & Distribution events Diane Smith 8 BTL Editorial Mike Cox’s last stand 28 Dear Jody CREATIVE 11 Speak Out 29 Horoscopes Using courts to end discrimination Graphic Designer 8 Viewpoint 30 Puzzle David Ano Putting the T back in LGBT rights 11 Casting call in Novi 31 Classifieds Pride Source Media Group 32 Cocktail Chatter Directors looking for broke with 9 S/he said 11920 Farmington Road personality 33 Scene Check Livonia, Michigan 48150 Bullying, GOProud and Rev. James Stoll Phone 734.293.7200 34 Deep Inside Hollywood Fax 734.293.7201 12 Florida court affirms 9 Parting Glances www.pridesource.com overturning gay adoption ban Remembering Jack (Vividly!) Our rate cards are available online Ruling marks end of last prohibition of adoptions by same-sex couples in nation 12 Creep of the Week All material appearing in Between The Lines is protected by federal copyright law and may not be reproduced in whole or part without Ann Coulter the permisssion of the publishers. Between The Lines is supported by many fine advertisers, but we cannot accept responsibility for claims made by our advertisers, nor can we accept responsibility for materials provided by advertisers or their agents. Cover story Photo: Emily Locklear Copyright 2010 Pride Source Media Group, LLC 6

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Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 3 4 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 News BETWEEN OURSELVES byBy Jessica Jessica CarrerasCarreras

Emily Brown is a facilitator and board member of Open Arms, the Ferndale-based support group for people living with HIV/AIDS. Brown helps to do marketing for the group, and also works as a community liaison. How did you get in- people are better equipped to keep volved with Open themselves healthy and prevent 1Arms? new infections than those who I saw a want ad in Michi- are isolated. gan HIV News for a volunteer On a personal level, it’s very support group facilitator. Even uplifting to know that people will though I knew a lot about the stop at nothing (including HIV) virus, I lacked the perspective to accomplish their goals. Over of someone living with HIV. the years, I’ve seen members It was an experience I felt I complete college degrees, fin- needed to have. ish athletic competitions, start To tell the truth, I was companies, get new jobs, partner scared out of my mind; I was up and/or get married and raise afraid of falling in love with children. Life always goes on; and losing people who were Life always goes on; Open Arms empowers people to ill. To the contrary, although take it by the reins. It’s amazing I did fall in love, the last five Open Arms empowers to witness, and very humbling. years have been full of hope people to take it by and laughter. Generally, the How has Open Arms been people who attend Open the reins. It’s amazing able to grow since merg- Arms are unwilling to let a to witness, and 4 ing with MAC? positive HIV diagnosis stop With the support of MAC, them from living successful very humbling. Open Arms hopes to gain new lives. Every week is a chal- members and grow our network. lenge and a testament to the We have plans to build a website healing power of friendship. that will link from MAC’s so that people seeking support can easily find us. MAC also gives us our What services does the group provide? own space in the building, a phone, a computer Open Arms is a weekly support group and other office supplies so that we can tackle 2 for people living with or affected by HIV/ logistical challenges. Helen Hicks, MAC’s CEO, AIDS. Each attendee has an opportunity to speak has helped us acquire funding for new outreach about his or her experience with HIV/AIDS or activities by writing grants. related issues, and the group responds. We feel that Open Arms and MAC have During the summer, we offer a lecture series a symbiotic relationship: MAC acquired a in which HIV/AIDS-related experts in the com- fully functioning, historically successful support munity visit and offer education and advice to group, and Open Arms acquired the opportunity our members. We also participate in AIDS Walk to help more newly diagnosed people in the Detroit and have a yearly holiday celebration community. in January. The value of support group is twofold: How do you think the community ben- participants offer dozens of perspectives on any efits from having a group like Open problem, and they remind us all that we’re not 5 Arms? alone in whatever we’re going through. Living From a public health perspective, support with HIV/AIDS without the benefit of group groups are part of a philosophy of “prevention support is difficult. There are so many choices for positives,” in which those who are infected to make – medications, doctors, lifestyle recom- learn ways to keep themselves healthy and their mendations – it’s nearly impossible to keep up partners safe from new infections. with. Our discussions lead to informed decisions On a “big picture” level, the existence of about wellness. There really isn’t much funding Open Arms sends a signal to the community: This for psychosocial support for people living with is a place where everyone belongs. A community HIV/AIDS in Michigan, and attending Open without a group like Open Arms is a community Arms is essentially free. I don’t want to live in. Strong, diverse commu- nities work to address their residents’ diverse What do you enjoy about being involved needs. HIV exists in nearly every community, with the group? and support groups are one way that we can 3 Open Arms has inspired me to under- address the epidemic and acknowledge those in stand the value of social networking in health need without excluding anyone. and wellness. People who are connected to other Learn more at www.michiganaidscoalition.org.

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Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 5 News MICHIGAN Michigan Walks! Detroit chapter of statewide HIV/AIDS services fundraisers sees 450 attendees, $28K raised

BY CORNELIUS A. FORTUNE “I’m not here as the council DETROIT – It was a cold start, but an estimated 450 people came out in support of AIDS Walk president. I am here as a member Michigan-Detroit on Sept. 25 at Palmer Park, of the community that is mostly gathering at the Gatliff Pool and walking in support of raising funds for HIV/AIDS services. affected by this virus and disease. During registration, which began at 8:30 a.m., a DJ played some upbeat music; lines This is personal to me.” formed; people danced; people Hustled in time, unified not only by an infectious beat, but an -Detroit City Council important cause. Others cradled coffee cups in Above: Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh, center, begins the Detroit chapter of AIDS Walk Michigan their chilly hands, socialized, or ate the bagels President Charles Pugh on Sept. 25 in Palmer Park. Below left: (Left to right) Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion HIV/ AIDS Program Director Andrea Roberson, AIDS Partnership Michigan Executive Director Barbara Murray, APM provided for breakfast. Despite the brisk wind, Development Director Curtis Lipscomb, Community Health Awareness Group Executive Director Cindy Calhoun most of the participants, wearing bright yellow “It’s even more important for people to and CHAG Prevention and Finance Director Barbara Jones. BTL photos by Emily Locklear Below right: East shirts donning the AIDS Walk Michigan emblem, Lansing City Councilmember Nathan Triplett, his wife Sarah and long-time LGBT ally Julie Powers pause for a walk, and for many of us, the walk is the true had smiles on their faces. pictures as the Lansing chapter of AIDS Walk Michigan steps off. Photo by Todd A. Heywood advocacy event,” he said, “where all commu- So far, AIDS Walk Michigan’s Detroit walk nity members come out, young and old; people has raised over $28,000. Funding, noted AIDS affected – infected – come out to walk and raise Partnership Michigan Development Director awareness.” Curtis Lipscomb, is always a challenge. For Mechelle Ross, a native Detroiter, 2010 “In metro Detroit and all across the nation, marked the seventh anniversary of her brother’s the economy is hurting,” Lipscomb said. “AIDS death. She has supported AIDS Walk Michigan- Walk Michigan, which is a statewide effort, Detroit ever since. raises money to combat that and to add needed “I come out here to support the cause,” revenue for those services. Revenue is shrinking Ross said. “(My reason) is kind of personal. all through government levels. This our way to Some people don’t have any insurance and it’s subsidize the cost of running our programs and hard to know (if they’re HIV-positive). They’re services. For some of the sister cities that walk, scared. Some of them don’t want to get tested. this is the primary fundraiser.” We need to be knowledgeable about how AIDS Other walks, some of which took place is transmitted. Sept. 25-26 and the last of which happens Oct. is a really good way of bringing awareness to HIV/AIDS. “They shouldn’t be treated no different than 2 in Flint, took place in Ann Arbor, Jackson, Bay something that people don’t really want to talk “I’m not here as the council president,” anybody else.” City, Lansing, Traverse City and Mount Pleas- about. It’s good to see everyone out here. Just Pugh said. “I am here as a member of the com- Sharon Gee, a volunteer helping with regis- ant. They have raised a total of over $121,600 a little bit more people would be a lot better.” munity that is mostly affected by this virus and try, has participated in other walks, but this was so far, said APM Executive Director and AIDS Detroit Deputy Mayor Saul Green spoke on disease. This is personal to me. As somebody her first in Detroit. Walk Michigan President Barbara Murray, and behalf of Mayor Dave Bing. who has lost family members and too many “I think it’s important for us to universally brought out over 2,000 walkers. “Clearly you all are as active or more ac- , this is personal. understand the impact of AIDS and what that Donations will still be accepted through tive than any organization in the United States “I am here to make sure that we send the has to do with our community and our culture,” Nov. 5, and funds will go to local HIV/AIDS in fighting this epidemic,” Green said. “It’s so message that HIV and AIDS is 100-percent Gee said. “I think uniting together for a common organizations, including the HIV/AIDS Resource important. We have to continue to be involved. preventable. It starts with us. Prevention starts cause makes the universe a little bit smaller and Center in Ann Arbor, the Lansing Area AIDS We have to pull together.” with education and education starts with a simple manageable.” Network, the Thomas Judd Care Center in Tra- Detroit City Council President Charles conversation.” Gary Heicklen, an Oak Park resident, made verse City and several others. Pugh received a huge welcome and made it sure the event was a family affair. AIDS Walk Michigan is accepting donations Lipscomb added that the importance of the clear that his own participation in the walk was “My wife works for one of the nonprofits,” through Nov. 5. For more information, visit www. walks, along with making up for declining fund- personal. Pugh is openly gay, and spoke of the Heicklen said. “I did it last year, too. I think aidswalkmichigan.org. ing, is the show community support for the cause. disproportionate number of black, gay men with people need to be aware of what’s going on. This 44 percent of gay, bisexual men with HIV don’t know it CDC study: One in five sexual active gay or bisexual men has virus BY MIKE STOBBE Overall, less than half of 1 percent of Ameri- sizing more of a government focus on men who testing to the men, interviewed them and paid cans have the AIDS virus, according to a calcula- have sex with men and others at the highest risk around $25 for their participation. ATLANTA (AP) - One in five sexually active tion by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a research of getting infected, Kates said. Black men were more likely to have HIV, gay and bisexual men has the AIDS virus, and and policy organization in Washington, D.C. The Centers for Disease Control and Pre- with 28 percent reportedly infected, compared nearly half of those don’t know they are infected, But gay and bisexual men continue to be vention recommends HIV testing at least once a to 18 percent of Hispanic men and 16 percent a federal study of 21 U.S. cities shows. infected at much higher rates, said Jennifer Kates, year for all men who have sex with men and are of white men. Experts said the findings are similar to Kaiser’s director of global health and HIV policy. sexually active, but research indicates more than Black men were also least likely to know earlier research, but the study released Sept. 23 “We don’t have a generalized epidemic half don’t get tested. they were infected – about 60 percent didn’t is the largest to look at gay and bisexual U.S. in the United States. We have a concentrated An earlier study in just five cities in 2004-05 know they had HIV – compared 46 percent of men at high risk for HIV. More than 8,000 men epidemic among certain populations,” she said. found similar results. Hispanic men and 26 percent of whites. were tested and interviewed, and 44 percent of That’s why a new national AIDS strategy, The new study, conducted in 2008, included CDC report: www.cdc.gov/mmwr those who had the virus didn’t know they had it. unveiled by the White House in July, is empha- 16 additional cities. Researchers offered free

6 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Viewpoint Where is the commitment? Not enough being done to help individuals obtain HIV/AIDS drugs

BY JEFFREY R. rooms receiving medical care at the highest medications need only request that their state LEWIS At least 14 state ADAP programs possible price. ADAP program representative contact Welvista. What’s more, for AIDS patients who need HIV/AIDS meds will be shipped directly to the America’s com- have gone so far as to institute a variety of drugs, the effort to obtain free patient or to a medical provider if so preferred. mitment to helping tens patient waiting lists. Nationally, drugs from programs run by the pharmaceuti- Program costs are covered by grants provided by of thousands of people cal manufacturers can be overwhelming, due all the participants and administered by Welvista. suffering from HIV/ more than 3,337 people living with to complicated paperwork processes, differ- This market-based solution is a national initiative AIDS obtain access to the medications they need HIV/AIDS now sit on waiting ent income-eligibility determinations by each designed to help patients in any state. to survive has failed. Instead, the White House, manufacturer, lack of a single entry point and Unfortunately, Abbott, Merck and Tibotec members of Congress, governors and state lists for essential medications. other hurdles. In other words, budget crises, are the only three pharmaceutical manufacturers legislators have created a new life-threatening combined with bureaucracy and wrapped in a that produce HIV/AIDS medications currently epidemic: functional malaise. blanket of indifference, have made this problem participating in this program. The entry of all Why is there a problem when we have boast about the passage of health care reform both severe and life threatening. the other pharmaceutical manufacturers would AIDS Drug Assistance Programs - a system of legislation, but it fails to protect thousands of To bridge this gap, the Heinz Family Phi- be greatly encouraged and welcomed, but the federally funded, state-run programs to supply Americans suffering from some of the most lanthropies, Abbott, Merck, Tibotec Therapeutics larger question is, why do the other pharmaceuti- low-income, uninsured individuals with access to serious illnesses. This is an affront to the LGBT and Welvista created a market-based approach cal manufacturers refuse to help? lifesaving HIV/AIDS medications? Many states community, and all Americans in need. that underscores how philanthropy, business and We are driven by a simple belief that the today face massive budget shortfalls and must Despite more than $800 million set aside by nonprofits can work together to create solutions forces of the marketplace can drive the kind of cut services. At least 14 state ADAP programs the federal government to help those diagnosed to vexing health problems. instrumental change that government cannot or have gone so far as to institute patient waiting with HIV/AIDS obtain crucial medication, thou- The one-stop solution created through this will not accomplish on its own. The need is great lists. Nationally, more than 3,337 people living sands of seriously ill and impoverished Ameri- partnership works quite simply: It eliminates all and the time for leadership is now! with HIV/AIDS now sit on waiting lists for es- cans still go without the drugs that could save enrollment forms, making enrollment automatic Jeffrey Lewis is the president of the Heinz Fam- sential medications. Both Ohio and Utah have their lives. The result? Skyrocketing hospital for anyone certified on an ADAP waiting list. ily Philanthropies and can be reached at jlewis@ taken people out of their programs because of costs as these patients, who are much sicker for Patients on the waiting lists who need ac- eligibility restrictions. lack of proper treatment, end up in emergency cess to no-cost Abbott, Merck or Tibotec HIV heinzoffice.org. The White House and Congress may

Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 7 Opinions Jan Stevenson, Publisher • Susan Horowitz, Publisher/Editor

Viewpoint

Putting the T back in LGBT rights

BY TONI CARETTO as we act within expected norms. While in Berkeley, National Public Radio I was called “ma’am” and addressed (with presented a story titled “Becoming Miles: The my partner) as “ladies” within 24 hours of arriv- Journey of Changing Sexes.” Here’s what some ing in Berkeley, Calif., for the Gender Spectrum of the 475 comments made by NPR listeners Family Conference, which took place Sept. 3-6. had to say about the topic: “disgusting ... sicko “Will you ladies need help with your lug- ... a mental illness ... accept God’s will ... chro- BTL Editorial gage?” we were asked. mosomes don’t lie ... I pay attention to mutilation ... be gay these things because We as a movement have failed to or lesbian.” National I am a Clinical Psy- help people understand that sex, Public Radio. Col- chologist who works lege-educated, liberal Mike Cox’s last stand with gender-variant gender, expression listeners. children and transgen- and sexual orientation are distinct What is evident Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has ders of all ages. I also to me in reading the noted these events be- aspects of who we are. We have comments is that to done it again. Out of 44 states that do not allow The passage of Proposal 2 in 2004, which cause they occurred failed to get across the essence of many Americans, bi- amended the state constitution to define marriage same-sex marriages, only 10 felt in the Bay Area, the ology is still used to as between one man and one woman, and the “Gay Mecca,” steeped the message of true acceptance frame destiny and that it necessary to take the time to in a tradition of toler- subsequent battle Cox led to make sure that said of individual differences. when one expresses law meant that same-sex couples would receive fight anti-gay Californians’ battle ance and progressive themselves in a way no rights in our state, was a years-long stab in politics. which contradicts the hearts of LGBT and allied Michiganders. In since they’re already done ruining Obviously the history of tolerance and what is the norm, it is not well tolerated. an effort to continue to pour salt on the wounds, the lives of LGBT citizens in their liberal politics in the Bay Area has not created We as a movement have failed to help Cox has taken it upon himself to tout the fact a culture that is any more gender sensitive than people understand that sex, gender, gender role that Michigan’s name is listed on the amicus own state. Michigan was one of metro Detroit. The T in LGBT isn’t really any expression and sexual orientation are distinct as- brief filed last week “defending marriage” in the them, thanks to Mike Cox. more supported, integrated or embraced in Cali- pects of who we are. We have failed to get across Proposition 8 case currently set to be heard in fornia than it is in Michigan. We have failed as a the essence of the message of true acceptance of the 9th District Court of Appeals in December. gay rights movement and our failure is showing individual differences. Said Cox in a Sept. 27 press release, “Tradi- vis a vis the trans rights issue. Our failure is perhaps clearest in pseudo- I was not in awe of the proliferation of gender- tional marriage between one man and one woman lawyer Andrew Shirvell penning a blog bashing accepting statement “be gay or lesbian,” in neutral bathrooms in the Bay Area because they is a foundational institution of our society, and the University of Michigan’s gay student body which we are taken back to a belief that sex of were not evident. Gender Spectrum had to make the federal government and judicial activists president spread like wildfire through local and partner determines who we feel ourselves to be “Unisex” signs to post on the bathrooms in the should not interfere with the states’ protection national media. Cox’s only response to his em- and what types of behaviors are then tolerable. It conference area because the facility chosen did of marriage. The recent decision to overturn ployee’s borderline harassment of the student? also assumes that to be gay or lesbian is different not have gender-neutral bathrooms. Using data California’s marriage amendment threatens mar- To call Shirvell “unprofessional.” than being . However, if the ultimate from safe2pee.org and the U.S. census verifies my riage laws in Michigan and 44 other states, and And yet, unlike many other Michiganders, reason for hate crimes against gays and lesbians perception: Though Berkeley has 27 gender neutral it should be reversed.” Shirvell still has his job. And despite a slew of is because we transgress gender norms, then bathrooms, it is twice as densely populated as Ann He went on to point out how “the demo- messages, Facebook groups and public backlash aren’t gay rights issues really trans right issues? Arbor, which has 32 gender neutral bathrooms. cratic choice to support traditional marriage” demanding that Shirvell be fired, Cox’s office Until we ourselves embrace and advocate from I was also not in awe of the ease with which should be “respected and preserved” and gave a would offer no comment on the matter, making this position, we will continue to be placated. families in attendance were able to raise gender-vari- laundry list of all the things he has done to en- his reprimand seem like little more than a wag I don’t want to called “ma’am” any more ant children. Parents were hungry for knowledge, sure that gays cannot receive any rights in their of the finger when what was deserved was a boot than I want to be asked about my husband. As full of questions and expressed frustration at the lack relationships in Michigan. out the door. Cynthia Eller explained in her book “Am I A of services and support in their communities. In the It’s just another action showing that not only So pat yourself on the back a little more, Woman?”: “I have no trouble acknowledging back of meeting rooms and during lunch, parents does Cox not support or care about Michigan’s Cox, for “defending traditional marriage” and that I have an XX chromosome configuration and were often seen sitting close, talking and sometimes LGBT citizens, but he goes out of his way to keeping bigots in work in a state with a 13.1-per- the sort of primary and secondary sex character- crying. A legacy of progressive politics did not spare label our state as one unwelcoming of “non-tra- cent unemployment rate. But just remember that istics that are classified as female. But “woman” parents on the west coast from having the same ditional” people and relationships. Out of those plenty of Michigan voters spoke up in the Aug. 3 carries a lot more baggage than that. And I’m thoughts and emotions as families in the Midwest. 44 states that do not allow same-sex marriages, primaries, too, making it overwhelmingly clear not allowed to accept the female classification The fact that even the “Gay Mecca” doesn’t only 10 felt it necessary to take the time to fight that they don’t want you anywhere near their without the baggage.” “get” trans issues shows me that we are settling anti-gay Californians’ battle since they’re already government anymore, let alone running it as the I can handle the luggage, just don’t weigh for being placated. Trans rights and gay rights done ruining the lives of LGBT citizens in their next governor. me down with baggage. are inseparable. A large percentage of gay men own state. Michigan was one of those 10, joining Between The Lines urges its readers to Dr. Toni Caretto is a licensed clinical psychologist and women were gender non-conforming during Indiana, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, continue to keep people like Cox out of our state childhood, and most hate crimes against gays and specializing in autism and gender issues. She cur- Florida, Idaho, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South government. Research your candidates and be lesbians are because of their gender expression, rently resides in Farmington Hills with her partner. Carolina, Utah and Wyoming. sure to vote on Nov. 2. This move comes after word about Cox staff not their sexual orientation. We have become To comment on this Viewpoint, e-mail editor@ more accepted by the majority culture as long pridesource.com.

8 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a Parting redress of grievances. – First Amendment, U.S. Constitution Glances Then & Now BY CHARLES ALEXANDER S/he said Remembering Bullying, GOProud and Rev. James Stoll Jack. (Vividly!) I met Jack Whitehead about 50 years ago at the Birmingham home of the publisher of “Impresario Magazine,” a popular monthly of the “All faggots must die” seven arts I was freelancing for. - A comment posted by “Jimmy” on the Joe.My.God Jack was early 20s, strikingly handsome, soft spoken, vibrationally blog entry about the failure to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t gay. (Our respective gaydar locked for milliseconds of mutual size up. Tell” policy, traced by its IP address to computers in the No centimeters of follow up occurred). Atlanta office of anti-gay Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Jack was recently out of the Army, seeking to channel his ener- http://joemygod.blogspot.com, Sept. 21. gies creatively. His presence was calming. Thoughtful. Reflective. His conversation, determined. He smiled a lot. “Focus on the Family, a right-wing “I’ve been told by a Native American service buddy that I’m gifted lobbying group that fronts as a reli- with two-spirited vision, an eye for seeing the beauty in linear and fluid gious organization, pays lip service shapes; that I’ll be involved throughout my life in capturing images. Of to the bullying issue, but wants no sharing my vision call in a lasting way. Wish me luck.” mention of in schools That initial meeting – memorable because I envied Jack and his because it might encourage kids to be so-called “sanctioning,” his “special” calling. (And his stunning looks.) gay – this, in spite of the fact that the God knows he’ll go places, I mentally noted, shook hands a little too vast majority of bullying is directed eagerly perhaps, left my now-long-forgotten story copy with “Impre- at teens who either appear to be gay sario” publisher Granville Ryan, and went my merry way. or are actually out, not those who are I never saw Jack again. But, over the years, I heard a lot about him. fat or wear glasses.” Jack made it. Big time. His good friend and long-distance buddy, artist Jim David Jon Strand, talked often – and enthusiastically – to me about Jack. “Our - Jim David, in his column titled mutual careers took off about the same time,” Jon recalls, with perhaps “How Many Teens Have to Die a bit of justified self-promotion. Before Focus on the Family Gives a Damn?,” www.huffing- “Jack almost made it in movies. He had Wild, Wild West, bronco- tonpost.com, Sept. 15. busting, cowpoke attitude. Unfortunately, in spite of wonderful camera- loving close-ups, Jack’s voice was, shall I put it kindly – and I love you, “Did any of you Log Cabin Republicans vote for Obama? Jack, wherever you are – hardly John-Wayne macho. Didn’t think so. Chances are, there are many gay Republicans “It just wasn’t a big deal for Jack. He had an easy-going attitude who voted for representatives that served their economic about life and things. (Movie fans are fickle.) But, perhaps in keeping interests and not their equality interests. Many of them likely with the predicted charm that guided him, where one camera failed to voted for Republicans who opposed Obama in his push to shape destiny, another gave him fame and fortune. repeal DADT. If you wanted Obama to be more progressive “Jack’s mental ‘soul mate,’ friend and grocer heir, former-Detroiter on gay rights, you should have helped him win more support “If the current society wants to out- Bobby LaRose, suggested that perhaps Jack’s vision quest could find in Congress and the Senate. It’s an easy equation.” outlet in taking pictures behind a camera. Jack took to Bobby’s sugges- tion with flair and, if I may pun a bit, sharp focus. - Emma Ruby-Sachs, in her column titled “DADT Win Can’t law discrimination by sex, you have “The service buddy’s prediction proved perceptive. Within five Save Log Cabin Republicans,” www.huffingtonpost.com, legislatures ... the same is true of years, Jack’s skill, aesthetic sense, intuitive timing, camera mastery Sept. 10. paid off. Soon he was getting in the neighborhood of $1,500 a shoot. discrimination against gays and les- His automotive and fashion design photography were successes, fol- “If the revolution we’re in means any- bians. Nobody thought it was directed lowed by astute real estate investments. He retired reasonably young thing, it means we have the right to in Florida,” says Jon. be ourselves, without shame or fear.” against sex discrimination. The idea LaRose, who also Florida-early-retired near Jack, adds a postscript: “For the past nine years, Jack, who was diagnosed with severe kidney - Rev. James Stoll, a Unitarian that it is constitutionally forbidden is problems, was relegated to weekly dialysis. What’s adversity for many Universalist (1936-1994), at a 1969 became a get-on-with-it challenge for him. He put his vision quest on Unitarian conference, quoted in an ar- a modern invention.” canvas. Three-hundred canvases. Each 5 feet by 6. Three-hundred! ticle titled “Haunted Man of the Cloth - Supreme Court Justice Antonin “Jack painted tranquil nature. Exuberant animal life. He painted and Pioneer of Gay Rights,” about inner moods. He painted visual and artful melodies of color, composition, Stoll’s life, one of the first openly gay Scalia, in a speech at a California law haunting textures. I’m not an artist. But Jack’s legacy is truly amazing; ministers in America, www.nytimes. and, so important, a clear demonstration that one’s gay gifts can, in the Rev. James Stoll com, Sept. 18. school, about the 14th Amendment’s long run of life’s final years of challenge and adjustment, be a saving guarantee of equal protection not grace. A benediction for others.” “What we’re seeing is that gay rights are not the wedge issues Jack Whitehead died on New Year’s Day 2009. LaRose is estate ex- they used to be. Republicans can’t use this as a wedge issue applying to sex or sexual orientation ecutor. Fifty Whitehead paintings have been donated as an all-proceeds- anymore. I think it’s much more of a permanent shift. A lot of to Affirmations LGBT community center fundraiser. Gala Invitational people think it’s a generational issue, and this is just how it’s discrimination, San Francisco Opening is Friday, Oct. 8, from 7-10 p.m. (Several paintings are also going to be from now on.” on exhibit in Ferndale stores.) As art openings go, this is a major event Chronicle www.sfgate.com, Sept. 18. of the new fall season! - Paul Guequierre, Human Rights Campaign spokesman, in (Quiet aside: Jack – it was my pleasure to meet you long ago; my an article titled “Will Obama’s Paralysis on Gay Rights Issues pleasure now to ‘see’ you again. We haven’t changed much, have we? Worsen the Enthusiasm Gap in November?,” www.alternet. Be honest.) org, Sept. 9. [email protected]. Facebook, too.

Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 9 News MICHIGAN Through the Kaleidoscope’s lens Ruth Ellis Center fundraiser celebrates voguing, LGBT youth

BY JESSICA CARRERAS DETROIT – The 103-year-old walls of the his- toric Scarab Club in Detroit vibrated with club beats and hands clapping in unison Sept. 23 as the Ruth Ellis Center brought voguing out of its drop-in building and into the public eye for their Kaleidoscope fundraiser. The event was held to raise funds for the center, which provides shelter and services to at-risk, runaway and homeless LGBTQ youth in metro Detroit. In attendance were many members of the LGBT community, as well as several local politicians and hopefuls, including Detroit City Councilwoman Saunteel Jenkins, state Sen. Buzz Thomas, Oakland County commissioner candidate Mike McGuinness and Southfield City Councilman Kenson Siver. Head of Friends School of Detroit and for- mer Ruth Ellis Center Interim Executive Director Kevin Howley also attended, making a strong case for supporting the center with monetary contribu- Top left: Diana Nucera of the Allied Media Project, left, and Ruth Ellis Center youth Rafel Moore were co-directors tions. “There are more kids that need to be served. of the voguing documentary, shown at the Sept. 23 Kaleidoscope event. Top right: A REC youth strikes a There are more nights that the center needs to be pose in a voguing demonstration at Kaleidoscope. Left: Executive Director Laura Hughes relayed all she had learned in her first year at the Ruth Ellis Center, including all about voguing. BTL photos by Jessica Carreras open,” Howley said. “Right now, they’re open two nights a week. It’d be nice to open it a couple more nights a week, but that takes money.” Proving that donations to the center go to “Kaleidoscope is a celebration and a reminder for the young people who great causes were REC youth, several of which come into our drop-in center, who call and who are on Ruth’s House’s showed off their dance moves to attendees with a voguing demonstration. Their dancing provided waiting list. This is a message that until we live in a world that fully a live supplement to the focus of Kaleidoscope, which was the unveiling of the documentary on affirms who they are, we will continue to advocate on their behalf. We will voguing created by REC youth Rafel Moore, provide a safe space. We will provide a home. We will foster a family.” employee Frank Johnson and Diana Nucera of the Allied Media Project, which teaches media skills to groups to promote community building. -Ruth Ellis Center Executive Director Laura Hughes The documentary took viewers through the el- ements of voguing, including hands, duck walk and It was a factor, admitted Executive Director “If a kaleidoscope is, indeed, a reflection of a will provide a home. We will foster a family.” drop; what voguing is all about; and what it means Laura Hughes, that she knew little about when constantly changing pattern of shapes and colors, And, added REC employee and facilitator to youth at the Ruth Ellis Center. Indeed, admitted she began running the Ruth Ellis Center just then the homeless and runaway youth we serve are of Kaleidoscope Adriel Thornton, voguing is a Moore in the video, “Sometimes I’m walking down over a year ago. a prism through which we see our society,” Hughes way that those youth persevere. “This is much the street and I can’t help but start dancing.” “When I first saw the young people voguing poetically stated. “And if young people are a prism more than just dancing for the sake of dancing,” In the process of creating the documentary, in the drop-in center, I was like, ‘So is that why for the Ruth Ellis Center kaleidoscope, then tonight he said after the documentary was shown. “This Nucera shared, they created their own commu- I always hear all this noise in my office?’” she is a celebration of the (youth) who have all been is an expression of who they are, and … this is a nity. “Not only did we become a little family in joked. “But what I really learned from it – and I residents of Ruth’s house; all of them who have way that they have found to express themselves, creating this video, we learned a lot about the think sometimes as adults, we really need to take taken tremendous steps in their own lives.” to bond, to create a family. process of investigating, asking critical questions time to listen – is that our young people have very Hughes continued, “Tonight is also a celebra- “Still to this very day, when I think about it, in order to engage people and understanding what powerful voices, and voguing is tied to houses tion and a reminder ... for the young people who makes me want to cry and really floors me, because voguing is,” Nucera said. “And we were able to and family and extended kinship networks that come into our drop-in center for their first meal of I don’t know if I’m as strong as some of these kids.” tell our story and allow people to accept the fact these young people may otherwise not have.” the day, the young people who call and the young that this is what this community does, this is how Moreover, added Hughes, Kaleidoscope people who are on Ruth’s House’s waiting list. This To see the full documentary, go to www.. (the youth) communicate with each other and served as a viewer through which center sup- is a message that until we live in a world that fully com/watch?v=BJWQRa1bibc. this is a huge part of the Ruth Ellis Center and a porters could see all the different dimensions affirms who they are, we will continue to advocate huge part of the voguing scene that keeps them of REC youth: their resilience, their uniqueness on their behalf. We will provide a safe space. We together and keeps their heads up every day.” and their . Preview: UM-Dearborn to celebrate LGBT History Month The University of Michigan-Dearborn’s career and assassination of San Francisco’s first local LGBT politics. This event will take place in at UM-Dearborn and beyond, plus more cover- Gender and Sexuality Alliance will be hosting a openly gay elected official. The screening and Kochoff Hall A, located in the University Center. age of some of the LGBT community’s greatest slew of events throughout October celebrating following discussion will take place at 4 p.m. These events are just two of the many com- heros. both LGBT History Month and National Coming Oct. 5 in room 1030 of the College of Arts, Sci- ing up from UM-Dearborn’s GSA. All events are For more information on these and other Out Day, which happens Oct. 11. ence and Letters building. free and all are welcome to attend. events put on at UM-Dearborn, contact GSA The month of events will begin with a Then, at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 7, Ferndale Mayor Check out the Oct. 7 issue of Between The President Benjamin Jenkins at bmjenkin@umd. screening of the 1984 documentary “The Times and Oakland County Commission candidate Lines for a full calendar of LGBTQ History umich.edu. of Harvey Milk,” which chronicles the political Craig Covey will be speaking about his work and Month and Day events happening

10 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 News SPEAK OUT by Eric Rader Using courts to end discrimination

n Sept. 21, a minority of senators decided that the U.S. Contact President Obama and urge him to use executive Omilitary should continue to action to end DADT: Visit www.whitehouse.gov/contact, discriminate against lesbian and gay or call the White House switchboard at 202-456-1414. soldiers. Despite overwhelming public and military support for ending the re- gressive “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Continue to pressure the Senate to end DADT: Senate Democrats failed to get enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster of Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services a military spending bill that included Committee: an end to the policy. At a time when our nation has http://levin.senate.gov/contact/ troops of all backgrounds facing danger around the world, Sen- Sen. Debbie Stabenow: ate Republicans (and two Democrats), who claim they revere the military, have actually weakened our nation and dishonored http://stabenow.senate.gov/email.cfm the service of many brave women and men. The unconscionable obstructionism of the GOP means that gay and lesbian soldiers rights leaders at a time when the political branches of the govern- who courageously defend this country can still be kicked out of ment lacked the will and courage to do the right thing. While there the military because of their sexual orientation. are some in our government today who have courage on issues of The inability of the Senate to end the DADT policy points LGBT equality, many others do not. The entire Republican caucus to the critical importance of the judiciary in protecting the rights in the Senate, along with two Democrats, demonstrated political of minorities. cowardice last week, by casting the deciding votes that blocked In the early years of the black civil rights movement, the debate on the repeal of DADT. NAACP recognized that conservative Congresses and presidents The court decisions, though critical in the struggle for equal- would not grant equality, so civil rights leaders challenged dis- ity, should not even be necessary. All of these cases involve laws criminatory laws in federal court. These so-called “test cases” that could simply be changed or eliminated by Congress or state helped to dismantle the Jim Crow system brick by brick in the legislatures. mid-20th century, culminating in the landmark Brown v. Board On DADT, it is still possible that the Senate will do the of Education desegregation decision in 1954. right thing. Several of the senators who supported the filibuster In the following years, President Lyndon Johnson and a more against the bill last week have indicated that they are waiting for progressive Congress established race and gender as protected the completion of the military’s review of the policy in December categories in federal law, confirming the wise decisions reached before they vote to end it. Some of these senators may support earlier by the courts. ending the policy at that time, though after last week’s fiasco, it’s A similar phenomenon is occurring right now in the move- not something we should count on happening. ment for LGBT equality. If the Senate won’t act, we should call on President Obama In recent weeks, federal courts have ruled in favor of gay to stop enforcing the DADT policy as commander-in-chief; he marriage in California, against the DADT policy in California and could also refuse to appeal the judicial rulings against DADT. against the Defense of Marriage Act in . Several Absent legislative or executive action, it’ll be up to the courts to days after the Senate’s failed effort to end DADT, a federal court end discrimination. Thankfully, it appears that the judicial branch in Washington State reinstated a lesbian Air Force nurse who recognizes the need to apply constitutional rights to all Americans. was discharged under the policy. Also last week, a state court in Eventually, true equality in this nation will come, no matter how Florida ruled in favor of the right of lesbians and gays to adopt hard supporters of discrimination try to block it. children. In each of these cases, judges recognized that there was Eric Rader teaches political science at Henry Ford Community Col- no legal rationale for treating people differently because of their sexual orientation. lege in Dearborn. His courses focus on American government and It is likely that some of these cases will end up being consid- state and local government. From 2003-2004, Rader served as an ered by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the struggle for equal rights in assistant policy advisor in the office of Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, the 20th century, it took action by the nation’s highest court to end focusing primarily on education and civil rights policy, including legal discrimination against people based on race or gender. The LGBT issues. He currently lives in Ferndale and is proud to be part test case strategy was the only realistic avenue available to civil of Michigan’s LGBT community. Casting call in Novi Directors looking for broke LGBTs with personality Iconic Casting, a Hollywood-based agency, and the producers show cast,” he said. “If winning this big cash prize means some- of VH1 reality series “Rock of Love” and “For the Love of Ray J” thing, show it! This is someone’s big chance to compete and pay will scope out Michigan for a new show, “Competition for Cash.” off their debt.” The open casting call for the bankrupt, in-debt or unemployed starts Larese, who’s visiting several cities across the U.S. for “Com- at 6 p.m. Oct. 8 at MBarGo in Novi’s Fountain Walk. petition for Cash,” selected his hometown for casting because “We want everyone to come out for the open casting call, no of its ties to the auto industry, and the economical downturn its matter how much debt they are in,” said RJ Larese, casting direc- undergone in recent years. tor for Iconic Casting. “Some people might have massive student “I grew up in Novi, so when it came to casting this specific loans; some people might have been apart of the auto industry and show, I immediately thought of the Detroit area,” he said. “Ev- gotten laid off; or some queen might have done some emotional eryone I grew up with was related to or had friends in the car eating and shopping at Twelve Oaks Mall after their boyfriend industry. When the auto business started going under, everyone dumped them.” was affected.” Participants must be at least 21 years old – and, Larese For more information on “Competition for Cash” casting, stresses, have personality. visit www.iconiccasting.com. “It’s very rare that someone who is dull is part of a reality

Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 11 News NATIONAL

Ann Coulter Florida court affirms BY D’ANNE WITKOWSKI overturning gay adoption ban erhaps it was Ann Coulter’s very public referral to former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as a P“faggot” that nabbed her an invitation to address a con- Ruling marks end of last prohibition of adoptions by servative gay group, or maybe it was her recent essay extolling the virtues of Ronald Reagan and his battle against “government endorsement same-sex couples in nation of homosexuality.” BY CURT ANDERSON AND and more incidents of teasing and bullying Whatever the reason, Coulter, KELLI KENNEDY suffered by children from gay households. everybody’s favorite anti-gay fag hag, The appeals panel said the state’s appeared Sept. 21 at her long-awaited MIAMI (AP) – Florida will immediately evidence did not back up those claims and Homocon gig: a fundraiser for GOProud, stop enforcing its ban on adoptions by gay that its “experts’ opinions were not valid a group of gay conservatives. Anti-gay people following a decision by a state appeals from a scientific point of view.” DCF also right-wingers were aghast that Coulter court that the three-decade-old law is uncon- now agrees, according to last Wednesday’s would speak to such a depraved group stitutional, Gov. Charlie Crist said Sept. 22. ruling, “that gay people and heterosexuals and some lamented that she’d gone over Florida was the only state to ban all make equally good parents.” to the dark side. But they needn’t have gays from adopting. DCF said in a statement released the Ann Coulter worried. Even when talking to a group Crist announced the decision after the same day as the ruling that it was analyz- of homos she has no problem not being 3rd District Court of Appeals upheld a 2008 Florida Gov. Charlie Crist: “It’s a great day for children.” ing the decision and would decide ahead very nice to homos. ruling by a Miami-Dade judge, who found of the 30-day deadline whether to appeal. “Marriage is not a civil right. You’re not black,” Coulter “no rational basis” for the ban when she ap- and is the only law of its kind in the na- The statement said the agency is trying to told the group. “Blacks must be looking at the gays saying, ‘Why proved the adoption of two young brothers tion, according to court records. Arkansas find “the balance between the value of a can’t we be oppressed like that?’” by Martin Gill and his male partner. and Utah ban any unmarried straight or final ruling from the Florida Supreme Court “I’m very pleased with the ruling on gay couples from adopting or fostering versus the impact on the Gill family.” behalf of the Gills,” Crist told reporters in children. Mississippi bans gay couples, but Gill said he’ll take the case as far as he Tallahassee. “It’s a great day for children. not single gays, from adopting. can if the state appeals. The yearlong wait Silly gays, always pretending to have problems Children deserve a loving home.” “Clearly, Florida’s law was the most for the decision has been agony, with him bigger than where their next martini is coming The appeals court decision is not the draconian in the nation until today,” said worrying “week after week that my kids final word on the law. Gill and the American Robert Rosenwald, the lead counsel on the might be taken away.” from. Oh, and also: There are no black gays. Civil Liberties Union, which represented case for the Florida ACLU. Gill has tried to shield the boys, now 6 him and his partner, want the state to take the In a 28-page opinion, a three-judge and 10, by not discussing the ramifications case to the Florida Supreme Court to obtain Ha, ha, ha. Get it? Because gays are all rich and can afford panel of the court noted that gay people of the case with them and putting blocks on a final statewide determination on the law. to hire high-profile guest speakers for their big, fat, gay parties in are permitted to become foster parents or their TV at home. If the state doesn’t appeal, “If that continues to be their desire, New York City. Silly gays, always pretending to have problems legal guardians in Florida, yet are the only Gill said he can’t wait to tell them he and we would support that, and I think given bigger than where their next martini is coming from. Oh, and group not allowed to adopt. his partner are their “forever parents” and the makeup of the current Supreme Court also: There are no black gays. LOL. WTF. “It is difficult to see any rational basis they can finally share the same last name. they would have a very good chance to get It was “one of a series of racially insensitive remarks that in utilizing homosexual persons as foster It’s been disappointing for the boys to enroll a very good ruling,” said Crist, a former pervaded her speech,” reported Talking Points Memo. This parents or guardians on a temporary or in school with different last names, he said. Republican running for the U.S. Senate as should come as no surprise since Coulter is widely perceived permanent basis, while imposing a blanket “I’m actually going to get their birth an independent. to be a racist bitch (and yes, I realize that “racist bitch” is not a prohibition on those same persons,” wrote certificates with me listed as their father. That Earlier this month, Crist’s campaign strong enough term, but I’m trying to be politically correct here). Judge Gerald Cope for the panel. “All other will be a thrilling thing for me,” Gill told issued a position paper supporting several So, wait – is Ann Coulter saying that civil rights only ap- persons are eligible to be considered case- The in a telephone call. “I gay rights issues he’d once opposed, in- ply to ? Apparently so. According to TPM, she told by-case to be adoptive parents.” think the birth certificates are going to have a cluding adoption rights. The document, “the crowd that the 14th Amendment only applies to African- The ruling came in an appeal of the prominent place in our house. That will be the however, stopped short of supporting same- Americans and that it does not, in fact, apply to women, LGBT 2008 decision by the state Department of written proof of all of this struggle.” sex marriage. Crist supported Florida’s people or other minorities.” Children and Families, which had urged Matthew Staver, an attorney with constitutional marriage ban when it was Kind of makes me wonder if she’s actually read the 14th the judges to consider evidence of what Virginia-based Liberty Counsel, which sup- enacted, and reiterated his support as re- Amendment. it said were risk factors among potential ports the ban, said adoption is a privilege, cently as last month. Keep in mind that Coulter was made part of the event to gay parents. These factors, according to not a right under Florida law. The agency The prohibition of adoption by a lighten things up with her, um, humor. attorneys for the department, included more filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting same-sex couple was first enacted in 1977 “The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of sexual activity by children of gay parents that position. politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests. Homocon is going to be our annual effort to counter the ‘no fun police’ on the left,” said GOProud Chairman of the Board Christopher Barron. “I can’t think of any conservative more fun to headline Obama heckled at fundraiser – again our inaugural party then the self-professed ‘right-wing Judy Garland,’ Ann Coulter.” HIV, gay rights advocates cite ‘broken promises’ at N.Y. event Really? You can’t think of a conservative that’s “more BY MARK S. SMITH Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. He told them to go you, will cut AIDS funding.” fun” than Ann Coulter? Maybe that means there really aren’t shout at Republicans, noting that a vote on The protest took place in the ballroom any “fun” conservatives. NEW YORK (AP) – President Barack repealing DADT failed this week in the Sen- of New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel as But what do I know? I’m a humorless member of the gay Obama got heckled at a fundraiser on Sept. ate, with Republicans united in opposition. Obama raised $1.4 million at receptions left doing my best to take all the fun out of politics, because of 22 by protesters pushing for more funding “Some of those signs should be go- and a dinner for the House and Senate how the gay left doesn’t appreciate how hilarious it is that gays for AIDS programs and quicker action to ing up at the other folks’ events, and folks Democratic campaign committees. can’t get married. And don’t forget the side-splitting debate allow gays to serve openly in the military. should be hollering at the other folks’ event. Democrats are anticipating poten- around “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” And the laffs about hate crimes Activists yelled slogans and held signs Because the choice in November could not tially heavy losses in midterm elections six legislation, or the fact that in many states it’s OK to fire someone aloft reading “Obama broken promises KILL.” be clearer,” the president said. weeks away, and Obama tried to rally them. for being gay, or deny them hospital visitation rights or a place Supporters of the president tried to drown them Addressing an activist pushing for “The last election was about the to live. Stop, my sides. No, seriously. Stop. out with shouts of “O-bam-a! O-bam-a!” more funding for global AIDS initiatives, changing of the guard,” he said. “This elec- But hey, at least we’re not black, right? Am I right? (Cricket The hecklers were so raucous Obama the president said, “We heard your point. tion is about guarding the change.” chirping) Guys? What’s the matter? Was it something I said? went off-script several times to address them, And as I said before, we increased AIDS The president was in New York to Sigh. I guess I just don’t have Ann Coulter’s silver- insisting he’s increased AIDS funding and funding. ... The people who will take over attend an annual United Nations meeting. tongued wit. is working to overturn the military’s “Don’t if we don’t focus on the election, I promise

12 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Ten states file anti- Judge orders lesbian gay marriage brief Document asserts marriage laws lie reinstated to Air Force with state, not federal courts Ten U.S. states have jointly filed a gay marriage opposition Senate filibuster of DADT repeal combats with brief to a federal appeals court in California. The amicus brief sent Sept. 24 to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that the Constitution does not require two pro-gay court rulings marriage to include same-sex couples. The 39-page brief also said that states, not federal courts, have final say in whether to BY GENE JOHNSON Gay rights advocates say that if the government must justify allow same-sex marriages. each firing under DADT, it will mean a slow death for the policy – A federal judge ruled last month that that California’s TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – A federal judge ruled Sept. 24 that a even if an outright repeal isn’t endorsed by Congress or the courts. Proposition 8, a voter-passed ban on same-sex marriage, was decorated flight nurse discharged from the Air Force for being gay The 1993 law prohibits the military from asking about the unconstitutional. Judge Vaughn Walker ruled there was no should be given her job back as soon as possible in the latest legal sexual orientation of service members, but allows the discharge legitimate state interest in preventing same-sex marriages setback to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. of those who acknowledge being gay or are discovered engaging and that “moral disapproval” alone wasn’t sufficient reason The decision by U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton came in homosexual activity. to justify banning it. in a closely watched case as a tense debate has been playing out The Justice Department did not immediately comment on The case is being appealed. over the policy. Senate Republicans blocked an effort to lift the the ruling, but James Lobsenz, Witt’s attorney, said he expected The Wyoming-based Casper Star-Tribune reported that ban this week, but Leighton is now the second federal judge this an appeal. other states who joined the brief against gay marriage are month to deem the policy unconstitutional. In 2006, Leighton rejected Witt’s claims that the Air Force Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, South Maj. Margaret Witt was suspended in 2004 and subsequently violated her rights, following precedent that the military’s policy Carolina, Utah and Virginia. They argued that same-sex mar- discharged under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy after the Air on gays is constitutional. An appeals court panel overruled him riage is not a fundamental right. Force learned she had been in a long-term relationship with a two years later, holding that in light of a Supreme Court ruling “If public affirmation of anyone and everyone’s personal civilian woman. She sued to get her job back. striking down a Texas ban on sodomy, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” love and commitment is the single purpose of marriage, a limit- Leighton hailed her as a “central figure in a long-term, highly intrudes on the rights of gay service members. For the government less number of rights claims could be set up that evacuate the charged civil rights movement.” Tears streaked down Witt’s cheeks to discharge gays it must prove that their firings further military term marriage of any meaning,” the brief said. and she hugged her parents, her partner and supporters following goals, the panel said. The amicus brief was criticized by Jason Marsden, of the ruling. Leighton determined after a six-day trial that Witt’s discharge the Matthew Shepard Foundation, a Denver-based gay-rights “Today you have won a victory in that struggle, the depth and advanced no legitimate military interest. To the contrary, her organization. He told the newspaper it was “very puzzling” duration of which will be determined by other judicial officers and dismissal hurt morale in her unit and weakened the squadron’s that Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg joined given hopefully soon the political branches of government,” the judge ability to carry out its mission, he ruled. that the Wyoming legislature last year defeated a resolution to told her, choking up as he recalled Witt’s dramatic testimony “There is no evidence that wounded troops care about the ban recognition of gay marriages performed in other states. about her struggles. sexual orientation of the flight nurse or medical technician tending “I thought it’d be pretty clear that the legislative branch, The ruling was the second legal victory this month for op- to their wounds,” Leighton ruled. at least, doesn’t want to send this kind of message of lack of ponents of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and it throws the law into Leighton became emotional as he recalled Witt’s testimony acceptance to its gay and lesbian citizens,” Marsden said. “But further disarray. about the support she has received from her parents since she came the attorney general appears to have taken another direction.” Barring an appeal, Witt will now be able to serve despite out to them on the eve of filing her lawsuit. Becky Vandeberghe, of WyWatch Family Action, a Wyo- being openly gay, and a federal judge in California earlier this “The best thing to come out of all this tumult is still that love ming-based family-values group that opposes gay marriage, said month ruled the law unconstitutional and is considering whether to and support,” he said. she was “very pleased’’ to see that Wyoming joined the brief. immediately halt the ban. While such an injunction would prevent A crowd of spectators remained quiet until the judge left the WyWatch joined more than 30 other groups in submitting an openly gay service members from being discharged going forward, courtroom, when it erupted in cheers. amicus brief of their own to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last it wouldn’t do anything for those who have already been dismissed. “I’m just so thrilled I have the chance to do what I wanted to week against the California decision. Witt’s attorneys, led by the American Civil Liberties Union do all along: that’s return to my unit,” Witt said. “The California voters spoke, and that should be honored,” of Washington, say her case now provides a template for gays who She also said that she appreciated the judge’s recognition Vandeberghe said. “We don’t believe that judges should be have been previously discharged to seek reinstatement. of the many gays who continue to quietly serve in the military. overruling what the will of the people is.” ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ injunction now up to judge DOJ says legal filing does not detract from Obama’s stance on anti-gay military policy BY JULIE WATSON Congress must act to end this misguided policy,” istration would file such a document days after globe,” federal attorneys said in their objection. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said it urged Congress to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t The policy was also overruled Sept. 24 in a SAN DIEGO (AP) – U.S. government lawyers in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. Tell,’” Woods said. federal court in Tacoma, Wash., where a lawyer are trying to stop a federal judge from issuing an Phillips declared the military’s “Don’t Ask, In their court filing last Thursday, U.S. De- for a decorated flight nurse discharged for being injunction that would immediately do what Presi- Don’t Tell” policy unconstitutional in her ruling partment of Justice attorneys argued the possible gay was ordered to be reinstated to the Air Force dent Obama has yet to accomplish so far in his first Sept. 9 following a three-week, non-jury trial move would be “untenable” and that Phillips Reserve by U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton. term: Halt the military’s ban on openly gay troops. and said she would issue a nationwide order to would be overstepping her bounds by halting a The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy pro- Now it is up to U.S. District Court Judge Vir- stop the ban. She asked both sides for input first. policy under debate in Congress. hibits the military from asking about the sexual ginia Phillips to decide if she is willing to do that. The Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights Instead, she should limit any injunction to orientation of service members. Under the 1993 The White House says the legal filing Sept. organization that filed the lawsuit to stop the ban’s the 19,000 members of the Log Cabin Republi- policy, service men and women who acknowl- 23 by the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys in enforcement, wants her to issue an order that cans, which includes current and former military edge being gay or are discovered engaging in a federal court in Riverside follows government would stop the policy from being used to discharge personnel, the lawyers said. homosexual activity, even in the privacy of their procedure by defending an act of Congress that any U.S. military personnel anywhere in the world. “A court should not compel the executive own homes off base, are subject to discharge. is being challenged, but it does not detract from Their attorney, Dan Woods, called the De- to implement an immediate cessation of the In her ruling, Phillips said the policy doesn’t the president’s efforts to get “Don’t Ask, Don’t partment of Justice’s objections to the possible 17-year-old policy without regard for any ef- help military readiness and instead has a “direct Tell” repealed. injunction hypocritical. He said the administra- fect such an abrupt change might have on the and deleterious effect” on the armed services by “This filing in no way diminishes the presi- tion should be seizing the opportunity to let a military’s operations, particularly at a time when hurting recruiting during wartime and requiring dent’s firm commitment to achieve a legislative judge do what politics has not been able to do. the military is engaged in combat operations and the discharge of service members with critical repeal of DADT – indeed, it clearly shows why “It’s sad and disappointing that the admin- other demanding military activities around the skills and training.

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stand in the way of basic human rights.” Ban’s message was delivered in Geneva by U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay. In her own remarks, Pillay said there is nowhere in the world where LGBT people live entirely free from discrimination or the threat of harassment or attack. “But in 78 countries, individuals still face criminal sanctions on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” she told the event, which was held on the sidelines of the 15th regu- lar session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. “If we are all entitled to the full range of human rights and to equal protection of the law, then I believe it can never be acceptable to deprive certain individuals of their rights, indeed to impose criminal sanctions on those individuals not because they have inflicted harm on others or pose a threat to the well-being of others but simply for being who they are, for being born with a particular sexual orientation or gender identity,” Pillay said. Activists push for ‘third sex’ ID

20,000 people protested Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit to Britain on Sept. 18 in London. The demo was organized by gay leader Peter Tatchell. cards for Nepalese Photo by Andrew West/British Humanist Association

Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. He said they contract for use of its facilities at the last minute. The Global Forum on MSM & HIV has drove him to a police station two hours away, The union’s head reportedly told festival called on Nepal’s Home Ministry to issue “third Gays, others mocked and insulted him, called him “faggot” organizers that the city’s Committee of Culture sex” citizenship cards to transgender people in and “pederast,” probably drugged him via a glass had urged that the events be canceled because accord with a 2007 Supreme Court decision. of water and eventually presented him with a they promoted “propaganda of homosexuality.” protest pope in “The legal verdict, which was the outcome paper to sign that said an agreement had been The 10 days of activities included work- of a lawsuit filed by the Blue Diamond Society, reached to drop his lawsuits at the European shops, discussions and events with poets, pho- obligated the government to issue citizenship Court of Human Rights over Luzhkov’s repeated tographers, musicians, actors and dancers. London cards to transgender people ... recognizing their As many as 20,000 LGBT people and oth- bans of gay Pride parades. gender as a ‘third sex,” the forum, known as ers protested Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit to Alekseev said he didn’t sign it, “despite MSMGF, said Sept. 19. “Despite lobbying by Britain on Sept. 18 in London. persistent ‘advice’ not to enter into conflict with activists to move the Home Ministry to deliver “We got 10 times more people than we the authorities.” German foreign on this ruling, transgender and meti individu- expected at the protest,” said British gay leader During the ordeal, someone used Alekseev’s als in Nepal today still do not have citizenship Peter Tatchell, who organized the demonstration. mobile phone to text false information to the cards reflecting legal recognition of their gender “This is awesome for a small campaign with no media, saying that Alekseev was in Belarus, had minister gets identity.” office, paid staff or proper funding.” sought political asylum there and was dropping MSMGF and openly gay Nepalese MP Tatchell called the “Nope Pope” march and his European court cases. hitched Sunil Babu Pant say that without the cards, rally “the world’s biggest protest against any Alekseev was set free on the outskirts of German Foreign Minister Guido Wester- transgender people are denied access to educa- pope for many, many years.” the city of Tula early the morning of Sept. 18, welle entered into an official same-sex partner- tion, jobs, health care, inheritances, passports It filled an area stretching from Hyde Park made his way to the city center and took a bus ship with Michael Mronz on Sept. 17 in Bonn. and foreign travel. Corner to Piccadilly Circus. to Moscow, he said. Mayor Jürgen Nimptsch conducted the small, LGBT people staged a protest over the mat- Tatchell said the goal was to “expose the He’s planning to sue the airport, its security private ceremony. ter in Kathmandu on Sept. 14, resulting in some pope’s sexist, homophobic and reactionary agents and Swiss International Air Lines because In July, Westerwelle, who also is vice chan- 60 arrests, apparently because the demonstration dogmas.” he was in an “international” part of the airport cellor, presided over the opening ceremonies of occurred too close to government buildings. when he was seized and “illegally” forced back Gay Games VIII in Cologne. Activists later had a meeting with Prime into Russian territory. Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, and Pant wrote on Facebook, “He said he would solve the Citi- Gays arrested at zenship ID problem soon, but we need to keep St. Petersburg UN officials the pressure.” Moscow demo “Governments that deny fundamental rights Fresh from his reported two-and-a-half day call for to their citizens – in this instance, communities kidnapping by unidentified government officials, queer festival that are already marginalized – actively exclude Moscow gay leader Nikolai Alekseev, along with 10 these individuals from civic participation as other activists, was arrested in Moscow Sept. 21 for decriminalization equal members of society,” MSMGF said. “This staging an unauthorized demonstration at City Hall happens despite sends a strong message to the people of Nepal against Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s strident homophobia. and the broader global community that prejudice The demo, dubbed “Luzhkov Faggot,” took of gay sex supersedes social justice and human dignity.” roadblocks Top United Nations officials called Sept. Founded at the 2006 International AIDS place on Luzhkov’s 74th birthday and played off The Festival of Queer Culture in St. Pe- 17 for the decriminalization of gay sex and Conference, MSMGF is the only global HIV ad- a recent court case in which gays unsuccessfully tersburg, Russia, kicked off Sept. 16 despite transgender identity worldwide. vocacy network specifically devoted to the needs sued him for defamation for having called gays apparent pressure from the government to block “No doubt deeply rooted cultural sensitivi- of men who have sex with men. It is governed “faggots” (“gomiki”) on television. the events. ties can be aroused when we talk about sexual by a 20-member committee of internationally The protesters were cited and released. Organizers had to find a new venue for orientation,” said Secretary-General Ban Ki- recognized advocates and HIV professionals Alekseev has reported that he was abducted the opening and a photo exhibition after the St. by unidentified government agents Sept. 15 at moon. “Social attitudes run deep and take time representing each major region of the world. Petersburg Union of Artists reportedly broke a to change. But cultural considerations should not

14 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 15 16 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 All Over Adam Levine Maroon 5 frontman on new album, bedroom behavior and being so cool with the queers BY CHRIS AZZOPARDI dam Levine knows a little teasing goes a long way. That’s why the Maroon 5 superstud – who’s fronted the funky pop-rock band since Aits Grammy-winning debut, “Songs About Jane,” dropped eight years ago – is up for talking gay porn and solving problems in bed. Sex, though, is customary for the group – after all, they named their recently released third album “Hands All Over.” And put a bare-naked babe on the cover. That’s just the line Levine, 31, likes to cross, as he tells us. The gay- friendly guy also discussed his hotness eclipsing the band’s music, being domineering, his new fashion venture and freaking out uptight Americans.

Your first gay interview was with The Advocate, right? Yes. Was that a gay interview? It’s so funny – a “gay interview.”

Before that, did you know you had a big gay following? If you have a big following, a certain percentage of your big following must be gay – which, of course, I embrace with open arms.

What’s the significance of the title, “Hands All Over”? An album title is almost meaningless – the ring of what you’re saying and the combination of words is what really matters. Naming an album is a very weird process; it doesn’t exactly have to mean anything. It just has to feel good.

This one definitely leaves room for interpretation. It could be sexual, or it could simply mean that you have your hands in every musical genre – rock, country, pop, soul. There’s even a disco sound on some of the songs. Is that what you were going for? Yeah, there’s definitely a sound that is ours, and there’s definitely a little bit of ’70s in what we do sometimes. You could say funk, maybe chic.

“Never Gonna Leave This Bed” left me wondering: Do you solve all your problems in bed? (Laughs) That is certainly not a bad place to solve your problems! I also liked the double meaning there, because “Never Gonna Leave This Bed” could sound like you’re really depressed and you just want to sit and eat Ho Hos and be a slob and also, a place you can escape to with someone you care about.

In the “Misery” video, you seem to be enjoying those beatings a little too much. Is aggression a turn-on for you? Not really, actually. I mean, aggressive, yes. I like to be in control. I don’t want to be dominated or anything like that – definitely not to the extent in the video. Getting the shit beaten out of me is not my thing.

Not even in bed? In bed? No, no, no. I don’t like any kind of real pain in bed. Maybe the il- lusion of pain.

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is one of the last remaining acceptable prejudices. ® Levine Like, it’s still acceptable to a certain extent for people Continued from p. 17 to be homophobic. And it’s really disgusting, because being homophobic is no different than being racist or sexist. For some reason, people still think it’s OK Do you feel like your looks overshadow to call people a faggot, and it really pisses me off. your music? I do press with gay and straight magazines; I definitely think it overshadows our music. It doesn’t it doesn’t make a difference. People need to get bother me, but one really doesn’t have anything to do real and realize that this needs to stop. But I’m with the other. And that’s all I can really say. happy about (the overturning of) Prop. 8. That’s As flattering as it is to be considered attractive amazing. I hope it sticks. by anybody – which it is, it really is – it doesn’t really make me feel good when people judge what You’ve also said that the U.S. is too up- we do based on that. It’s just really silly because tight about sex. If it weren’t, how would our music became successful on its own merit. you take advantage of that? I would probably be the same. I’m always inspired Is the band ever envious of you being to go too far, so I’ll probably do that with this … you? album – make some video or something. I enjoy No, I don’t think so. They’re not the types who making uptight Americans feel uncomfortable. It’s want it. sex! Who cares? People are more obsessed with censoring sex than censoring violence. That makes I’ve heard that after this album you might no sense to me. Same reason I don’t understand disband? And then what? Do gay porn? why marijuana is not legal and cigarettes are. I’d have to be in a real low place to do that because, unfortunately, as much as I love the Do you smoke pot? gays, I am not one of them (laughs). But if we I write songs – of course I smoke pot! stop selling records, who knows? What were we talking about, other than gay porn? How will your fashion line, 222, be dif- ferent from other lines? Will the band still be around after this The difference is that I’m designing a lot of album? the stuff, and it’s going to be good. I’m really I don’t think that the band’s going anywhere. I just passionate about this. This is going to be really say that to fuck with people. And I’m sure that they special. We have the best cuts, best fabrics, best have no desire to go solo. I may do things on my everything. And it’s really simple. We’re trying own and experiment with different people and try to make this as clean and flawless as possible. different things with different artists. I’ll always do collaborations, but I don’t want to be a solo artist. Were you this fashionable when you were If I were ever going to do something, maybe a teenager? I’d start another band. But I’m not interested No, I was into wearing the dorkiest things I could in it just being me – “Hey, look! It’s me, Adam find. I loved vintage shopping. I was definitely a Levine! And here’s my album!” It’s super uncool. bit of a rebel at the time because I went to school I’d much rather be in a band. And I think I’m with a bunch of people that were eventually going going to be in this one for a long time. to become doctors and lawyers, and I wanted to be a musician. That was a rebellious move in my Why are you more comfortable around gay sheltered private-school world. men than most straight guys seem to be? Because there’s a lot of homophobic straight guys. On the MTV show “When I Was 17” you Listen, I think the more secure you are with your said you were gross when you were that sexuality, the more it doesn’t matter. I have straight age. What would you tell your 17-year-old friends and gay friends. I was raised in a place self now? where we were a little ahead of our time with be- I wouldn’t change a thing. Part of being a kid is ing accepting and tolerant of everybody. L.A.’s a not knowing what the hell you’re doing, and the different place to grow up; there’s obviously a huge journey of figuring it all out is part of life. And I gay community there. It was never weird or taboo. wouldn’t tell myself anything, because I wouldn’t It’s actually really astonishing that homosexuality want to wind up in any other place.

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Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 19 Life HEAR ME OUT by Chris Azzopardi KT Tunstall roars back with ‘Tiger Suit.’ Plus: Maroon 5 stays safe on latest album

“Never Gonna Leave This Bed” is the only one that doesn’t send you to slumber – how’s that for ironic? Grade: C+ Also Out

Nellie McKay, ‘Home Sweet Mobile Home’ The singing cha- meleon sheds an- other layer of skin on her fifth album, going cross-cul- ture and beelining for Jamaica. Both “Caribbean Time” and “Unknown Reggae” get their island-vibe on, with McKay revisiting the playfulness that defined her debut. She’s also plaintive on the gorgeous “The Portal,” political on “No Equality,” and packing swagger on the jazzy feel-good “Dispossessed.” “I’m feel- ing like a cool cat with a cabaret hat,” she sings. Because, well, she is one.

Brandon Flowers, ‘Flamingo’ KT Tunstall, ‘Tiger Suit’ Maroon 5, Imagine Bruce Springsteen and Suddenly KT Tunstall sees who she wants ‘Hands All Over’ the Killers, which to be – and it isn’t the folk-pop musician Being as hot as Flowers heads, circa 2006, when she made a big, gay splash frontman Adam making a baby – with the girl-power galvanizer “Suddenly Levine can only in other words, I See.” After 2007’s “Drastic Fantastic” get you so far this solo project. sent her back into oblivion, the Scottish – it can’t hone Western flourishes and vague religious soulstress roars back with feisty flavor a hook or write themes can’t free him enough from his and an eagerness to ditch the oversaturated a pile of potential radio smashes. But as quartet’s glam-rock essence, even when “singer-songwriter” genre. Linda Perry, the a band, Maroon 5 can, as they repeatedly he’s pitching changeups like “Only the superproducer who also helped Pink shift have on pop hits so catchy they’re like big Young” and “Hard Enough,” a duet with from R&B pin-up to pop-rock badass, aids wads of bubblegum that your subconscious Jenny Lewis. The rest isn’t half bad either, Tunstall’s transit into what she calls “nature stepped in. That’s how “Misery,” the quin- but Flowers is so invested in selling him- techno.” The sound switch is evident from tet’s first single from their third album, self, he gets away with more than he should. the first track, “Uummannaq Song,” with is made, too; with its beyond-infectious its African tribal beat and chanting chorus chorus and a glossier sheen, it eases them that picks up like a swooping wind blowing into a dancier direction that goes full-on John Legend and through the desert. Her throaty rasp is wise- funky town with its follow-up, “Give a the Roots, ‘Wake ly framed to fit organic, danceable grooves, Little More.” Bursting with pep and ooz- Up!’ especially on “Come On, Get In,” which ing sexiness from Levine’s elastic pipes Give the neo-soul borrows DNA from her biggest hit, “Black (the line “you make it so hard” could go so crooner credit for Horse and the Cherry Tree.” Throughout many ways), it’s as retro gay as the Scissor wanting to change this (de)tour de force, she sounds more Sisters. The song’s also insanely catchy, but the world – and natural than she ever did doing the whole catchy doesn’t mean creative – and “Hands even more for ballad thing, and she mostly dodges them All Over,” even with producer Robert John dedicating an en- on “Tiger Suit.” Songs that could’ve played “Mutt” Lange (the man behind Shania tire album to it. By adapting Legend’s as folk waltzes are given a whipping verve Twain’s hit trove), makes only simple milky voice to civil rights-era songs, and here – either striking harder with crunchy strides to move Maroon 5 past their brand especially by way of the Roots’ hip-hop guitars (“Difficulty”) or sweeping with a of procedural funky pop. Their most valiant treatment, the socially conscious sentiments momentum-building melody, like with the attempt comes during a shameless cross- are zapped with new life. The singer clocks stunning “Lost,” where Tunstall sounds as over collaboration with country music’s some of his best vocal work, especially on crisp as Stevie Nicks. Just like the legend Lady Antebellum on “Out of Goodbyes,” a the brooding 11-minute opus “I Can’t Write she aspires to, Tunstall finally proves she’s snoozer that falls right in line with the other Left-Handed,” and kills with a Nina Simone ready to be one herself. Grade: B+ forgettable, cliché-riddled love songs on the cover. Moving stuff, for sure. easy-to-dismiss last half, like “How” and “Just a Feeling.” In fact, of all the ballads, Reach Chris Azzopardi at [email protected].

20 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Life THE OUTFIELD by Dan Woog Straight talk on gay softball

As a youth, Henry Belanger didn’t play on father was the last to know.) But it didn’t take “They can really hit the ball. And they’ve got many teams. But in his 20s he realized he loved long to get over the fear that they’d think he crisp infields.” softball – the camaraderie, the competition, the was actually gay. They saw how much fun he (There is also, he notes, “a lot more grab- intricacies of the game. was having. (And when he got married, that ass and crotch-adjustment in straight softball.”) Now – after six years in Boston’s Beantown settled that.) Some players were a bit too competitive Softball, the largest gay softball league in New Besides, he was adding to his roster of bud- for his taste – one team is coached by “a chain- England – it is an integral part of his life. “I wish dies. His teammates became good friends – and smoking lesbian who takes gay softball really we could practice three times a week,” he says. because, each season, some players left for new seriously (and) runs a tight…profanity-laced It’s a typical gay-man-and-gay-sports story. teams while new ones arrived, within a few years ship” – but overall, Belanger revels in what he Except Belanger is straight. Belanger knew nearly everyone in the league. sees as the league’s proper balance between play- His day jobs are associate editor of the The three diamonds behind Harvard Stadium ing to win and playing to have fun. Good Men Project and owner of a contracting became like another Boston sports institution: Most teams “aren’t out to prove their tough- company. His path there included an all-boys Sam Malone’s Cheers bar. ness or to pretend like they’re playing major Belanger Catholic high school (where he “never heard of Belanger grew to appreciate gay softball league baseball,” he wrote in a story for the anyone being out”), and New College of Florida, so much that in 2006 he decided his contract- Good Men Project. “When someone bounces “Nonetheless, next weekend I will get to- a small, liberal institution that was “as opposite to ing company should sponsor his team. When into a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded, or gether with a few dozen gay men for a few hours my high school as possible.” Belanger lived with the squad split in two (some players wanted to runs into an out, they don’t give the guy dirty of hot, sweaty action. It will probably be in the a gay housemate and had plenty of gay friends. move to a higher division), he sponsored both. looks. And they don’t relegate the guy to the 90s, but we’ll all be wearing leather. But until 2004, when a friend asked if he (One team vetoed his suggestion for a carpentry- end of the bench.” “When I get home at the end of the day, wanted to play softball, Belanger had no expo- related name: The Hammerin’ Homos.) Belanger calls that “a healthier attitude” I’ll be filthy and so exhausted I’ll be unable to sure to gay sports. Belanger’s firm specializes in high-end than he’s seen in straight softball leagues. “When perform for my wife. I might even phone a buddy The friend later mentioned it was a gay finishes. The stereotype of gay men flocking to you get all these ex-college players together, it or two and brag about my exploits. team. That was fine; the key for Belanger was remodel their homes did not hold – but he made can be really intimidating,” he says. “I am a straight man. A straight man who that tryouts were not required. In college he’d enough through the couple of jobs his sponsor- Belanger describes gay softball as “one of loves gay softball.” played on a recreational squad “behind my ship brought in to break even on the cost. the most rewarding experiences of my life. I’ve And wants the entire world to know all 60-something philosophy professor,” so the But making money off gay men was not the gotten together with good people – and had fun.” about his love. chance to be on a team – at his favorite spot, first reason Belanger sprung for jerseys. He genuinely Still, he is not above casting a straight man’s Dan Woog is a journalist, educator, soccer coach, base, no less – trumped the fact that he’d be in liked the sport, the league and the team. And the eye on his gay sport. a minority, sexuality-wise. (League rules permit competition. “I loathe Broadway musicals, and theater gay activist, and author of the “Jocks” series of three straight players per team.) “The better teams in the gay league would generally, and my wardrobe consists almost books on gay male athletes. Visit his website at At first, Belanger was reluctant to tell his absolutely wipe the floor with the straight teams exclusively of jeans and T-shirts,” he wrote on www.danwoog.com. He can be reached care of straight friends that he played gay softball. (His I’ve played on and against,” Belanger says. the Good Men Project website. this publication or at [email protected].

Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 21 Cool Cities Ann Arbor TV show takes on local restaurant’s monster nachos Travel Channel’s ‘Man v. Food’ to feature Ann Arbor’s Tios BY SAMANTHA WHITE they were surprised at how long it took to shoot the episode. Still, they enjoyed the Tackling colossal cuisine is the premise taping when Richman and crew visited the for one of the Travel Channel’s most suc- restaurant a couple of weeks ago. According cessful programs, “Man v. Food.” Every to the Seavers, he’s everything you see on week, the show’s host, Adam Richman, TV: “He’s a really nice guy – completely treks to a different restaurant around the unpretentious and really excited.” country to see if he’s up for the challenge of Tim Seaver has been in the restaurant eating whichever oversized food item that business since 1967. He began Tios in 1985 restaurant offers. because he says all Mexican restaurants’ One of his next conquests will be right food tasted the same and he wanted to make here in Michigan, as Richman takes on the a restaurant that was different. “Mt. Nacheesmo” at Tios Southwestern “When you taste our food, you know Café, owned by eclectic restaurateurs Tim it’s Tios,” he says. and Harriet Seaver, at 401 E. Liberty St. in His commitment to creating a unique Ann Arbor. The episode airs Oct. 20 as the dining experience has also translated to the show’s season finale. ambience of the restaurant, which exudes a “Adam said his favorite food in the comfortable, family-like feel – and, well, world are nachos, and he wanted to do a for good reason: Two of their children also nacho challenge and he found us,” Tim says. work with them. The massive five-pound nacho dish is “Tios is our home,” Harriet says. “When not on the restaurant’s official menu, but is you own a business, you are here a lot – and available for those who can handle it. Tios we try to make it feel like home.” has a wall that serves as a Hall of Fame – or “Man v. Food” isn’t the first time Tios a Hall of Shame – for anyone who’s success- Southwestern Café has received recognition fully finished the mountain of nachos, or just for its food. Tim and Harriet won the “Read- couldn’t conquer it. er’s Pick” award from Current magazine six The Seavers are veterans in the res- times and the Ann Arbor News’ “Reader’s taurant business but new to television, and Choice” award five years in a row. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD YOUR MARKET Pinpoint your ad dollars3 where they’ll do the most good . . . ADVERTISE IN THE NEXT TO PLACE GET AN AD Cool RESULTS CALL Cities 734.293.7200 ANN ARBOR•ANN ARBOR

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24 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Life CURTAIN CALLS For the latest professional theater news, log on to www.EncoreMichigan.com! Powerful season opener at the Network BY DONALD V. CALAMIA REVIEW Who we are today is the cumulative result of all of our prior life experiences ‘Sonia Flew’ - the good, the tragic and the mundane. Performance Network Theatre, 120 E. Huron While much of our past is easily discussed St., Ann Arbor. Thursday-Sunday through Oct. with friends and loved ones, each of us 17. $22-$41. 734-663-0681. has a painful episode we bury deep inside www.performancenetwork.org and never share. But what happens when current-day events and hurtful memories but when her son, Zak, informs his mother collide, and the emotional result threatens that he’s decided to quit college and join to shatter your family? the Marines to help defend his country. Such is the situation a Cuban-Amer- Sonia’s subsequent refusal to participate in Milica Govich and Sarab Kamoo in “Sonia ican immigrant, wife and mother faces in Flew” at Performance Network Theatre. Photo: the dinner and her vitriolic anger towards Jude Walton the excellent “Sonia Flew” at Performance Zak’s announcement stun the family. And Network Theatre in Ann Arbor. her continued - and unexplained - resis- know that Sonia’s seemingly unreasonable In the months following the tragedy tance eventually drives everyone out of the position has its roots in Cuba 40 years of 9/11, Sonia is preparing a traditional house. “I don’t know you anymore,” her earlier in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s Shabbos dinner to celebrate the arrival of confused husband, Daniel, tells her as he’s takeover of that country. her Jewish father-in-law for the Hanukah about to leave with the rest of the family. and Christmas holidays. What should have And thanks to a past his wife has kept been a happy, festive occasion is anything mostly secret, there’s no way he could ‘Play It Again, Sam’ – again! BY JOHN QUINN REVIEW As the days trickle down to these treasured few, and patrons of Detroit’s ‘Play It Again, Sam’ entertainment district still have to share Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company at 1515 parking with die-hard baseball fans, it’s Broadway, 1515 Broadway St., Detroit. Friday- easy to slip into nostalgia. Hey! Remember Sunday through Oct. 17. $18. 313-408-7269. the World Series in ’68? No? Oh. So it’s www.magentagiraffe.com fitting that the Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company launches a blast from the comic from Allen’s previous introspection toward past as a “period” piece. Woody Allen’s a more mature understanding of romance. Jackie Strez, Brian Papandrea and Tommy 1969 Broadway comedy, “Play It Again, Woody Allen owns the anxiety- Simon in Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company’s Sam,” has not aged well, so this production ridden Nebbish like Chaplin owned The “Play It Again, Sam.” Photo: Charles Nowak is a suitably retro romp. Little Hobo. Here, Allan Felix (Tommy help from his married friends, Linda and This play represented a turning point Simon) is Allen’s hapless alter ego. A film Dick, who set him up with likely matches in Allen’s work. He was still creating a critic obsessed with the on-screen persona and are there to comfort him in his serial forum for his stand-up routines and “Play of Humphrey Bogart, Allan is back in the failures. Allan finds himself falling in love It Again, Sam” subjects the audience to a dating game after his wife walks out. Un- with Linda and the dissonance between relentless barrage of one-liners – some of happy he doesn’t measure up to his cinema dream and reality is both funny and sad. them even on topic. However, while past idol, Allan daydreams, summoning the works merely scratch the surface of inter- shade of “noir” Bogart to advise him on actions, “Sam” marks the turning point romantic strategy. He gets more realistic Blackbird wrestles with love and marriage BY DONALD V. CALAMIA REVIEW Unlike the characters in the Blackbird Theatre’s current production of “Women ‘Women in Love’ in Love” who beat around the bush and Blackbird Theatre, 325 Braun Ct., Ann Arbor. often don’t say what they really mean, I Thursday through Sunday through Oct. 16. won’t keep you wondering what I honestly Contains nudity. $15-$25. 734-332-3848. think about the company’s season-opening www.blackbirdtheatre.org drama: I love the production, but much of the story doesn’t interest me in the least. ponder weighty issues in a way they never Listening to overly verbose and unhappy considered before. (Recent productions men and women kvetch and talk in circles of “Doubt,” “Copenhagen,” “Proof,” “A about love, relationships and social tradi- Picasso” and “Take Me Out” are perfect tions - and take two hours to get to the examples of this.) But more importantly, Jamie Weeder and Steven O’Brien in “Women point - is not how I prefer to spend an the protagonist must be someone you can in Love” at the Blackbird Theatre. Photo: evening. identify with - or at the very least, some- Barton Bund But to leave it at that does this how empathize with or root for. Plus, too much talk; too little action.) But thoughtful, finely staged and extremely Frankly, most of the characters in well-acted production a terrible disservice. most of the problems I have with the script “Women in Love” - adapted by Barton are, I believe, gender-related. Personally, I like dramas with meat Bund from the novel by D.H. Lawrence on their bones. That means I prefer stories - are people I avoid like the plague at cock- that challenge theatergoers to examine tail parties and other social gatherings. their own core beliefs about something, or (Too many platitudes; too little substance.

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hospital, honoring former Detroit Lions MSU College of Music “Guest Artist Macomb Center for the Performing head coach Rick Forzano. Dinner and Recital” A performance by the Atlantic Arts “Leann Rimes” A plugged-in Calling all LGBT 20-somethings! Get dessert included. Townsend Hotel, 100 Ensemble Chamber Group. Tickets: $10 acoustic evening, with songs from her Townsend, Birmingham. 6 p.m. Oct. 7. adults, $8 seniors, free for students. newest album, “Lady and Gentlemen.” EDITOR’S PICK ready for a Young and Fabulous Night www.sjmercyhealth.org Music Building Auditorium, Michigan Tickets: $45-60. Macomb Center for the Out, from 7-9 p.m. Oct. 7 at Rosie State University, East Lansing. 3 p.m. Oct. Performing Arts Gallery, 44757 Garfield Urban Institute for Contemporary Art O’Grady’s in Ferndale. 10. 517-353-5340. www.music.msu.edu Road, Clinton Township. 8 p.m. Oct. 2. “Brunch & Banter” A brunch with ArtPrize 586-286-2222. www.macombcenter.com artists where guests can learn about MSU College of Music “Wind Young adults ages 21 and older will be the contemporary art. Urban Institute for Symphony” Tickets: $10 adults, $8 Olympia Entertainment “The Men meeting in the restaurant and bar’s Em- Contemporary Art, 41 Sheldon Blvd., Grand seniors, free for students. Wharton of Soul” With Jeffrey Osborne, Peabo erald Room for drink specials, free pizza Rapids. 1 p.m. Oct. 3. www.uica.org Center, Michigan State University, East Bryson, Freddie Jackson and Howard Lansing. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30. 517-353- Hewett. Tickets: $29.75-75.75. Fox and a chance to network and meet some Young Professional Leadership Council 9958. www.music.msu.edu Theatre, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 8 new LGBT and allied friends. Then, “Detroit Harmonie” A networking event p.m. Oct. 1. www.ticketmaster.com for young professionals. Tickets: $30. Plymouth Canton Symphony Orchestra stick around at Rosie’s new location for Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center, 7700 “Flute Fantastique” With flutist Eric Lamb. The Jazz Network “Billie Holiday Revue” drink specials, music and fun all night Second Ave., Detroit. 8 p.m. Oct. 9. 248- Tickets: $25 adults, $20 seniors, $10 The 10th annual tribute to the legendary long and start the weekend early. 752-2542. www.detharmonie.com students. Village Theater, 50400 Cherry jazz singer, with vocalist Sky Covington. Hill Road, Canton. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9. 734- Tickets: $15. Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts RSVPs are requested for this event, but 451-2112. www.plymouthsymphony.org Center, 331 E. Grand River, Detroit. 7 p.m. Oct. 3. www.artsleague.com not required, and all LGBT and allied CLASSICAL people are welcome to attend. Admis- Arab American National Museum The Magic Bag “Bettie Serveert” A sion is free. “Riad Abdel-Gawad” A performance CONCERTS performance by the Vancouver-based rock by the composer and violinist. Tickets: Detroit Institute of Arts “Friday Night band. Tickets: $12. The Magic Bag, 22920 To learn more, or to learn about other $10, or $9 for museum members. Live” Music by electronic duo ADULT, as Woodward Ave., Ferndale. 8 p.m. Sep. 30. upcoming Young and Fabulous Night Arab American National Museum, a soundtrack to their horror films. Detroit 248-544-1991. www.themagicbag.com Out events, call Affirmations at 248-398- 13624 Michigan Ave., Dearborn. 5:30 Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., The Magic Bag “Savoy Brown” Featuring p.m. Oct. 7. 313-582-2266. Detroit. 7 p.m. Oct. 1. 313-833-7900. Kim Simmonds, with special guest Paz 7105, or visit www.goaffirmations.org. www.arabamericanmuseum.org www.dia.org Man’s Supersession. Tickets: $20. The Flint Symphony Orchestra “From Detroit Symphony Orchestra “Michel Magic Bag, 22920 Woodward Ave., the Eternal City” Performing works by Camilo’s Big Band Caribe” A performance Ferndale. 8 p.m. Oct. 1. 248-544-1991. Rossini, Paganini and Respighi. Tickets: with the jazz and Latin pianist and www.themagicbag.com $8-55. The Whiting, 1241 E. Kearsley, composer. Tickets: $19-71. Orchestra University Musical Society “La Capella p.m. A 10-week course for men only to Flint. 8:30 p.m. Oct. 2. 810-238-1350. Hall, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit. Reial de Catalunya” A concert of classic learn about anger and their relationship www.thefim.org 8 p.m. Oct. 1. 313-576-5111. Mexican and Latin music, with Hesperion www.detroitsymphony.com with it. Cost: $15 per session. Hosted by Lansing Symphony Orchestra XXI and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, OUTINGS Lansing Association for Human Rights. MUSIC & “Tchaikovsky & Sibelius” Part of the Kerrytown Concert House “A Toast to directed by Jordi Savall. Tickets start at Women’s Center of Greater Lansing, 1712 MasterWorks series. Tickets: $12-45. Nat King Cole” A concert with the Paul $35. St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Thursday, Sept. 30 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. 517-410- Wharton Center, Michigan State University, Keller Trio. Tickets: $15-30. Kerrytown 2250 E. Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Gateway Open House, 6 p.m. A chance 9494. www.lahronline.org East Lansing. 8 p.m. Oct. 1. 517-487- Concert House, 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Sep. 30. www.ums.org to get to know more about programs at MORE 5001. www.lansingsymphony.org Arbor. 8 p.m. Oct. 8. 734-769-2999. University Musical Society “Jordi Gateway Community Services and how Thursday, Oct. 7 BENEFITS/SOCIAL EVENTS www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com Svaal” With Mexico’s Tembembe they help local youth. Kevin Moody Youth MSU College of Music “Guest Artist Discussion with Craig Covey, 6:30 AIDS Walk Michigan “Flint AIDS Walk” Recital” A performance on piano by Kerrytown Concert House “William Ensamble Continuo. Tickets start at $35. Home, South Waverly Road, Lansing. 517- p.m. A talk with the mayor of Ferndale St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 351-4000. www.gatewayservices.org One of eight walks to raise funds to help Sarkis Baltaian. Tickets: $10 adults, $8 Bolcom and Joan Morris” A performance and long-time openly gay politician. fight HIV/AIDS. UM-Flint University seniors, free for students. Music Building by the internationally renowned husband 2250 E. Stadium Blvd., Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Supreme Court Forum, 6 p.m. A Hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Center, Flint. 12 p.m. Oct. 2. Auditorium, Michigan State University, and wife pianist-soprano duo. Tickets: Sep. 30. www.ums.org discussion with attorney Jay Kaplan about Alliance. College of Arts, Science and www.aidswalkmichigan.org East Lansing. 8 p.m. Oct. 1. 517-353- $10-35. Kerrytown Concert House, 415 the importance of the Michigan Supreme Letters, University of Michigan-Dearborn. 9958. www.music.msu.edu N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor. 7 p.m. Oct. 9, [email protected]. http://gsa. Bert’s Warehouse “Detroit Erotica Court elections. ACLU of Michigan, 2966 9 p.m. Oct. 9. 734-769-2999. DANCE Woodward Ave., Detroit. www.aclumich.org umd.umich.edu Ball” Performances, dancing, art, body MSU College of Music “MSU-China www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com painting, food and more. Tickets: $10 in V Faculty Concert” An evening of vocal Detroit Opera House “Paul Taylor Dance Financial and Estate Planning Workshop, Young and Fabulous Night Out, 7 p.m. advance, $15 at the door with costume, performance by faculty from MSU and Kerrytown Concert House “All About Company” Presented in collaboration 6:30 p.m. Discussing such topics as life A night of fun with other LGBT young $20 without costume. Bert’s Warehouse, China. Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors, the Trio” Jazz with the Ellen Rowe Trio. with the University Musical Society. insurance, estate planning, investments and adults. Rosie O’Grady’s, 279 W. Nine Mile Eastern Market, Detroit. 9 p.m. Oct. 9. free for students. Music Building Tickets: $5-25. Kerrytown Concert Tickets: $18-46. Power Center, 121 more for LGBT people. Free. Affirmations, Road, Ferndale. www.goaffirmations.org 586-321-2273. www.detroiteroticaball. Auditorium, Michigan State University, House, 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor. Fletcher, Ann Arbor. 8 p.m. Oct. 7, 8 p.m. 290 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale. 248-398- com East Lansing. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6. 517-353- 2 p.m. Oct. 10. 734-769-2999. Oct. 8, 8 p.m. Oct. 9. www.motopera.org 7105. www.goaffirmations.org Friday, Oct. 8 5340. www.music.msu.edu www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com Edward Jones Financial Services Jack Whitehead Exhibition, 7 p.m. “Golf Fore Breast Cancer” A golf outing MSU College of Music “MSU-China Lansing Symphony Orchestra “Lansing Friday, Oct. 1 Selected works by the famous artist, benefiting The Pink Fund. Tanglewood V Student Concert” An evening of Symphony Big Band” Performing hits by Cole FESTIVALS Womyn’s Film Night, 7 p.m. “Fun in Girls’ with all proceeds benefiting Golf Course, 53503 W. 10 Mile Road, arias, duets, and student ensemble Porter, Count Basie, George Gershwin and Affirmations. Affirmations, 290 W. Nine Handcrafters Shows “Fall Fair” A fair Shorts” An eclectic anthology from LGBT South Lyon. 9 a.m. Oct. 9. 734-254-0114. performances by students from MSU more. Tickets: $15 adults, $10 students. Dart with over 75 artists and craftspeople film festival Frameline with six of their Mile Road, Ferndale. 248-398-7105. www.edwardjones.com and China. Tickets: $10 adults, $8 Auditorium, Lansing Community College, www.goaffirmations.org from around the country. Admission: $3. best lesbian-themed shorts. Affirmations, seniors, free for students. Music Building Lansing. 3 p.m. Oct. 10. 517-487-5001. Senior Community Center, 303 W. Main, 290 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale. 248- Michigan Humane Society “Mega Auditorium, Michigan State University, www.lansingsymphony.org Womyn’s Film Night, 7 p.m. “Girls March for Animals” A walk to help raise Northville. 9 a.m. Oct. 8, 9 a.m. Oct. 9, 398-7105. www.goaffirmations.org Kissing” A fast-paced documentary East Lansing. 8 p.m. Oct. 8. 517-353- 11 a.m. Oct. 10. 734-459-0050. funds for MHS. Pre-registration not 5340. www.music.msu.edu For the Bible Tells Me So, 7:30 p.m. Part exploring lesbianism from a variety of required. Hart Plaza, Detroit. 9 a.m. www.handcraftersunlimited.com of the group’s 2010-11 film series. Free. angles, including how pop culture is Oct. 3. www.michiganhumane.org Hosted by Holland is Ready. Park Theater, changing society’s outlook on the subject. 248 S. River Ave., Holland. 616-990-5669. Affirmations, 290 W. Nine Mile Road, MSU Museum “Dinosaur Dash” A 5K Ferndale. 248-398-7105. road race to raise funds for the museum’s www.goaffirmations.org educational programs, plus Museum Mile Saturday, Oct. 2 for youth. MSU Museum, Michigan State Anger Management Group Workshop, Carnival Weekend, 9 p.m. The annual University, East Lansing. 10 a.m. Oct. 3. 9 a.m. A 5-week workshop for men only fetish weekend with ICON Detroit. www.museum.msu.edu to learn about anger and their relationship Opening night held at Menjo’s with fetish Country music sweetheart LeAnn Rimes with it. Cost: $30 per session. Hosted by demos. Main event with performances, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit EDITOR’S PICK will return to Michigan to perform songs Lansing Association for Human Rights. auctions, raffles and more. Menjo’s “Home Slice” A benefit for MOCAD with Women’s Center of Greater Lansing, 1712 Complex, 928 W. McNichols, Detroit. strolling supper, silent auction, live DJ from her newest album, “Lady and E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. 517-410-9494. www.icondetroit.net and more. Tickets: $85. Eastern Market Gentlemen,” along with old favorites, at www.lahronline.org Shed 3, Detroit. 7 p.m. Oct. 8. 313-832- the Macomb Center for the Performing Saturday, Oct. 9 6622. www.mocadetroit.com Aerial Fitness Program, 11:30 a.m. A Arts in Clinton Township at 8 p.m. Oct. 2. six-week course that will cover stretching, Anger Management Group Workshop, Northville Chamber of Commerce trapeze, aerial hoop, circus rings and more. 9 a.m. A 5-week workshop for men “Ghoultide Gathering” A juried show At 13 years old, Rimes took the music Cost: $85. Affirmations, 290 W. Nine Mile only to learn about anger and their featuring Halloween art. Admission: $5. Mill world by storm in 1996 with her debut Road, Ferndale. www.goaffirmations.org relationship with it. Cost: $30 per session. Race Village, 215 Griswold, Northville. 9 Lansing Association for Human Rights, a.m. Oct. 2. www.downtownnorthville.com album “Blue,” and has since amassed 1712 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing. 517- two Grammy Awards, three Academy of Tuesday, Oct. 5 Northville Historical Society “Cemetery 410-9494. www.lahronline.org Country Music honors and 12 Billboard The Times of Harvey Milk, 4 p.m. Walk” A guided tour around the city’s oldest Documentary screening and discussion, Aerial Fitness Program, 11:30 a.m. cemetery with talks by volunteers dressed Awards – all before the age of 25. as part of LGBTQ History Month. Hosted by A six-week course that will cover as historical community members. Oakwood the Gender and Sexuality Alliance. College stretching, trapeze, aerial hoop, circus Cemetery, Northville. 4 p.m. Oct. 3. 248-348- Her newest album features reinterpreta- of Arts, Science and Letters, University rings and more. Cost: $85. Affirmations, 1845. www.downtownnorthville.com tions of classic country songs by the likes of Michigan-Dearborn. bmjenkin@umd. 290 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale. www.goaffirmations.org Riverside Arts Center “Oktoberfest of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson umich.edu. http://gsa.umd.umich.edu Fundraiser” A fundraiser for the arts and Vince Gill. All the songs, noted Euchre Tournament, 7 p.m. Euchre Carnival Weekend, 9 p.m. The annual center, with food, beer and live country Rimes, were originally performed by tournament fundraiser to benefit Out Loud fetish weekend with ICON Detroit. music. Tickets: $65. Corner Brewery, 720 Chorus, Washtenaw county’s original GLBT Opening night held at Menjo’s with fetish Norris Street, Ypsilanti. 4 p.m. Oct. 3. men and will be renewed with a woman’s chorus. $10 entry, cash prizes. Sh\aut\ demos. Main event with performances, 734-480-2787. www.riversidearts.org perspective on her latest album. Cabaret and Gallery, 325 Braun Court, Ann auctions, raffles and more. Hayloft Saloon, 8070 Greenfield, Detroit. St. Joseph Mercy Oakland “Fall Tickets to see LeAnn Rimes are $45-60 Arbor. 734-973-6084. outloudchorus@ Spectacular” A fundraiser for the gmail.com. www.olconline.org www.icondetroit.net and can be purchased at the Macomb Cen- ter box office, by calling 586-286-2222, Wednesday, Oct. 6 or online at www.macombcenter.com. Anger Management Group Workshop, 3

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Kerrytown Concert House “Edgefest” SHOWS The American Clock $8 - $12. The annual festival, with a focus on brass MotorCity Casino “Paul Rodriguez” A Michigan State University at Auditorium performances. Tickets: $135 Edgepass, performance by the stand-up comedian. Arena Theatre, 113 Auditorium, East Have you ever been caught between $15-25 individual concerts. Kerrytown Tickets: $35-37. Sound Board Theater, Lansing. Through Oct. 3. 517-355-3351. two worlds? Isabelle “Izzy” Gross- www.theatre.msu.edu EDITOR’S PICK Concert House, 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit. 8 p.m. man has. In the Players Guild of Arbor. Sep. 29 - Oct. 2. 734-769-2999. Oct. 1. www.motorcitycasino.com www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com Dearborn’s production of Susan MotorCity Casino “Nephew Tommy” A Sandler’s “Crossing Delancey,” Izzy Northville Chamber of Commerce stand-up performance by the comedian PROFESSIONAL THEATER “Car Tunes Festival” A classic car show, and regular on the “Steve Harvey Morning A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline $25- tries to find love and success her way, live entertainment, food and an outdoor Show.” Tickets: $30-37. Sound Board $29. Farmers Alley Theatre, 221 Farmers while still holding on to the values movie. Downtown, Northville. 12 p.m. Theater, 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit. 8 Alley, Kalamazoo. Through Oct. 10. 269- and ideals of a past generation. Oct. 2. www.downtownnorthville.com p.m. Oct. 8. www.motorcitycasino.com 343-2727. www.farmersalleytheatre.com Among Friends $25. Stormfield Theatre, Izzy works hard at her West Side 201 Morgan Ln., Lansing. Oct. 7 - 31. 517- bookstore – to catch the eye of a FILM & VIDEO 372-0945. www.stormfieldtheatre.org self-absorbed novelist, Tyler Moss. Ann Arbor District Library “Believe In An Evening with Jeff Daniels $12-$35. Her situation will be familiar to Me” A film showing and discussion about The Whiting, 1241 E. Kearsley St., Flint. mental health awareness. Mallets Creek those who have experienced unre- 8 p.m. Oct. 8. 810-237-7333. Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower Parkway, www.TheWhiting.com quited love and will beg the ques- Ann Arbor. 2 p.m. Oct. 2. 734-327-4200. THEATER tion: Can she catch his eye? An Evening with Jeff Daniels $20-$50. Detroit Waldorf School “Detroit Waldorf CIVIC/COMMUNITY THEATER The Macomb Center for the Performing School Film Festival” A film festival with 84 Charing Cross Road $12. SRO Performances are at 8 p.m. Oct. 1-2 Arts, 44575 Garfield Rd., Clinton the theme of making a difference in the life Productions at SRO Theater, 26060 Berg and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 3. Tickets are $15 Township. 8 p.m. Oct. 9. 586-286-2222. of a child, a family or a community. Films Rd., Southfield. Oct. 1 - 17. 248-796- for adults and $13 for students. For 4645. www.srotheater.org www.macombcenter.com include “Grown in Detroit, “Play it Again,” reservations or more information, “Garbage!” and others. Tickets: $10-15 per Beyond Therapy $20. The Acorn A Midsummer Night’s Dream $16-$18. call the ticket line at 313-561-TKTS. day. Detroit Waldorf School, 2555 Burns Stagecrafters, 415 S. Lafayette Ave., Theater, 107 Generations Dr., Three Ave., Detroit. 6 p.m. Oct. 8, 10 a.m. Oct. 9. Royal Oak. Through Oct. 3. 248-541- Oaks. Through Oct. 2. 269-756-3879. The Players Guild of Dearborn is 313-822-0300. www.detroitwaldorf.org 6430. www.stagecrafters.org www.acorntheater.com located at 21730 Madison, Dearborn. Friends of the Penn “Dracula” Part of Crossing Delancey $15. The Players Blue Door $15-$24. Williamston the Shocktober Thursday Classics series. Guild of Dearborn, 21730 Madison St., Theatre, 122 S. Putnam Rd., Williamston. Tickets: $3. Penn Theatre, 760 Penniman Dearborn. Through Oct. 3. 313-561-TKTS. Through Oct. 17. 517-655-7469. The God of Isaac Previews Oct. 6, 7 & Detroit Institute of Arts “In Your Kerrytown Concert House “Cycles” Ave., Plymouth. 7 p.m. Oct. 7. 734-453- www.playersguildofdearborn.org www.williamstontheatre.org 9 $32-$41, discounts for seniors and Dreams” 500 years of imaginary prints An exhibition of works by multi-media 0870. www.penntheatre.com students. Jewish Ensemble Theatre, from Europe and America. Museum artist McCabe Ash. Opening reception Doubt $15, plus $1 surcharge. Center boom $15-$20. Breathe Art Theatre Michigan Theater “Suspiria” The Italian Project at The Furniture Factory, 4126 Aaron DeRoy Theatre, 6600 West Maple admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 held 5-7 p.m. Oct. 13. Kerrytown Concert Stage Jackson at Ruth Day Theatre Rd., West Bloomfield. Oct. 6 - 31. 248- youth. Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 House, 415 N. Fourth Ave., Ann Arbor. by Dario Argento. Tickets: $9 at Potter Center, Jackson Community Third St., Detroit. Oct. 1 - 17. 248-982- adults, $7 students, seniors and veterans. 4121. www.breathearttheatre.com 788-2900. www.jettheatre.org Woodward Ave., Detroit. Sept. 8 - Jan. 2. Sept. 27 - Oct. 25. 734-769-2999. College, 2111 Emmons Rd., Jackson. 313-833-7900. www.dia.org www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. Through Oct. 3. 517-796-8600. The Great Game Show Fiasco $19; $36 10 p.m. Oct. 2. www.michtheater.org Come Dance With Me $36. The Croswell www.centerstagejackson.org Opera House, 129 E. Maumee, Adrian. Oct. for Oct. 23 performance (includes buffet Downriver Council for the Arts “Creative Kresge Art Museum “2010 Faculty dinner served at 6:30 p.m.). Van Buren Bead Attitude” An exhibition of beadwork by Biennial Exhibition” Featuring works by Michigan Theater “Answer This!” A Fortinbras $12. Riverwalk Theatre, 228 1 - 3. 517-264-7469. www.croswell.org sneak preview of the Michigan-made Street Theatre, 701 N Van Buren St., Bay members of the Great Lakes Beadworkers MSU faculty. Kresge Art Museum, Michigan Museum Drive, Lansing. Oct. 1 - 10. 517- Criminal Hearts $20. Planet Ant Theatre, City. Through Oct. 30. 989-893-9399. Guild. Costick Center, 28600 W. 11 Mile State University, East Lansing. Sept. 10 - movie. Tickets: $10, or $8 for Michigan 482-5700. www.riverwalktheatre.com Theater members. Michigan Theater, 603 2357 Caniff Ave., Hamtramck. Through www.vanburenstreettheatre.com Road, Farmington Hills. Sept. 13 - Oct. 15. Oct. 10. www.artmuseum.msu.edu Oct. 2. 313-365-4948. www.planetant.com 586-945-4620. www.downriverarts.org E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8. Godspell $24. Grosse Pointe Theatre The Judy Show $15. The Acorn Theater, Kresge Art Museum “Luces en Alba” www.michtheater.org at Grosse Pointe War Memorial, 32 Damn Yankees $28. The Encore Musical 107 Generations Dr., Three Oaks. 8 p.m. Oct. Downriver Council for the Arts “The Dawning Lights in Mexican Photography. Lake Shore Road, Grosse Pointe Farms. Theatre, 3126 Broad St., Dexter. Oct. 7 - 24. 7. 269-756-3879. www.acorntheater.com Soul of New Orleans” Photographs Held in the Perspectives Gallery. Kresge Michigan Theater “Chitty Chitty Bang Through Oct. 2. 313-881-4004. Bang” Part of the Family-Friendly Film 734-268-6200. http://theencoretheatre.org of music and life by Joe Crachiola. Art Museum, Michigan State University, www.gpt.org The Last Great British Sex Farce Wyandotte Arts Center, 81 Chestnut, East Lansing. Sept. 7 - Oct. 4. Series. Tickets: $9 adults, free for kids Dracula: A Rock Opera Previews Oct. 6-8 Ever! $14-$16. Broadway Onstage Live Wyandotte. Sept. 17 - Oct. 8. www.artmuseum.msu.edu 12 and under. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Godspell $10-$22. Kalamazoo Civic ($24). $30-$39. Meadow Brook Theatre, Theatre, 21517 Kelly Rd., Eastpointe. www.downriverarts.org Liberty, Ann Arbor. 1:30 p.m. Oct. 3. Theatre at Civic Auditorium, 329 South 220 N. Squirrel Rd., Rochester. Oct. 6 - 31. Through Oct. 9. 586-771-6333. Lawrence Street Gallery “Glenn www.michtheater.org Park St., Kalamazoo. Sep. 24 - Oct. 10. 248-377-3300. www.mbtheatre.com www.broadwayonstage.com Flint Institute of Arts “Unbroken Ties” “Fuzz” Corey and Gary Van Gorp” An 269-343-1313. www.kazoocivic.com Dialogues in Cuban Art, presenting works exhibition of new works by the resident Evil Dead: The Musical $30 general The Merchants of $25-$65. of artists who have remained in Cuba artists, including drawings and paintings. Leaving Iowa $13-$15. The Farmington admission; $35 reserved “splatter” Music Hall Center for the Performing alongside works by those who have left Opening reception held 6-9 p.m. Oct. OTHER Players at The Farmington Players Barn, seats. Who Wants Cake Theatre at the Arts, 350 Madison St., Detroit. Oct. 7 - 9. the country. Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. 1. Lawrence Street Gallery, 22620 Ann Arbor District Library “Making 32332 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills. City Theatre, 2301 Woodward Ave, 1-800-745-3000. www.musichall.org Kearsley, Flint. Sept. 9 - Dec. 7. 810-234- Woodward Ave., Ferndale. a Floral Art Quilt” A demonstration and Oct. 1 - 17. 248-553-2955. Detroit. Oct. 8 - 31. 1-800-745-3000. 1695. www.flintarts.org Sept. 29 - Oct. 30. 248-544-0394. lecture with quilting expert E. Brooks www.farmingtonplayers.org www.whowantscaketheatre.com Thursdays at Go Comedy! $10 for the www.lawrencestreetgallery.com Hinerman. Downtown Library, 343 evening. Go Comedy! Improv Theater, 261 Gallery Project “Politics of Fear” A Mindgame $16. Barefoot Productions, Fiddler on the Roof $30.50-$60.50. S. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor. 7 p.m. Oct. 5. E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale. 248-327- multimedia exhibit of works by 35 artists Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Barefoot Productions Theatre, 240 North Fox Theater, 2211 Woodward Ave., 734-327-4555. 0575. www.gocomedy.net visualizing fear in American society. The Museum “Artists Portray Artists” Main St., Plymouth. Oct. 8 - 24. 734-560- Detroit. Oct. 6 - 7. 313-471-6611. Gallery Project, 215 S. Fourth Ave., Ann An exhibition of 35 portraits and Ann Arbor District Library “Wildlife and 1493. www.justgobarefoot.com www.olympiaentertainment.com Wednesdays at Go Comedy! $5 for the evening. Go Comedy! Improv Theater, Arbor. Sept. 8 - Oct. 17. t734-997-7012. self-portraits. Marshall M. Fredericks Travel Lecture” A discussion about Kenya ‘night, Mother $16. PTD Productions at and Tanzania and the Great Serengeti Fridays and Saturdays at Go Comedy! 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale. 248-327- www.thegalleryproject.com Sculpture Museum, 7400 Bay Road, Riverside Arts Center, 76 N. Huron St., $15; “Dark Matter” is free. Go Comedy! Saginaw. Oct. 1 - Jan. 29. 989-964- Migration. Downtown Library, 343 0575. www.gocomedy.net Gallery U “Beyond Design” A mixed Ypsilanti. Through - Oct. 2. 734-483- Improv Theater, 261 E. Nine Mile Rd., 7096. www.marshallfredericks.org S. Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor. 7 p.m. Oct. 7. media group show. Gallery U, 310 Fourth 7345 . www.ptdproductions.com Ferndale. 248-327-0575. West Side Story $39-$89 (includes 734-327-4555. Street, Royal Oak. 5 p.m. Sept. 30. 248- River’s Edge Gallery “Menopause - The www.gocomedy.net parking and facility fees). Fisher Theatre, Starry Night $33 with dinner; show-only: 399-7322. http://gallery-u.blogspot.com Art Show” A reception for an exhibition Ann Arbor District Library “Health and 3011 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit. Sep. 30 - $18. Starlight Theatre at Waverly East Hay Fever Plays in rotating repertory. of artworks representing women going Wellness Lecture” A discussion about Oct. 16. 1-800-982-2787. Holocaust Memorial Center Cafetorium, 3131 W. Michigan, Lansing. Tickets $20-$30. Hilberry Theatre, 4743 through menopause. River’s Edge Gallery, childbirth choices. Free. Pittsfield Branch, www.broadwayindetroit.com “Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Oct. 1 - 9. Dinner served at 6:30 p.m.; Cass Ave., Detroit. Oct. 1 - Dec. 4. 313- 3024 Biddle, Wyandotte. 6 p.m. Oct. 2. 2359 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor. 7 p.m. Reconstruction” Computer aided design reservations required. 517-243-6040. 577-2972. www.wsushows.com Women in Love $15-$25. Blackbird www.artattheedge.com Oct. 6. 734-327-4200. www.starlightdinnertheatre.com Theatre, 325 Braun Ct., Ann Arbor. reconstructions of 14 synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht. Holocaust “On the Wild Side National Kidney Foundation “Personal Keely & Du $18. UDM Theatre Company Through Oct. 16. 734-332-3848. Riverside Arts Center Tartuffe $18-$22. Kalamazoo Civic at Marygrove College Theatre, 8425 W. www.blackbirdtheatre.org Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake - Art of Nature” Presenting the artwork Action Toward Health Class” A free Theatre at Parish Theatre, 426 S. Park class to help individuals learn how to McNichols Rd., Detroit. Oct. 1 - 10. 313- Road, Farmington Hills. Aug. 29 - Nov. 29. of Lisa Ramlow, Marie Rust and Lori St., Kalamazoo. Oct. 8 - 23. 269-343- 993-3270. www.theatre.udmercy.edu 248-553-2400. www.holocaustcenter.org Taylor. Opening reception held 5-7 p.m. manage long-term health conditions. Pre- 1313. www.kazoocivic.com registration required. Royal Oak Township Oct. 2. Riverside Arts Center, 76 N. Huron, Last of the Red Hot Lovers $28-$30. AUDITIONS Jewish Community Center of Metro Ypsilanti. Sept. 30 - Oct. 30. 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Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 27 Rear View DEAR JODY

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Life if full of “what ifs,” and if you engage in Parents blame me for A:all those “what ifs” – especially when things go wrong – it feels crazy and horrible, as it’s mak- brother’s death ing you right now. All of us are setting off chains of My brother “Adam” was murdered five years events that always lead somewhere: to good things, Q:ago. He was killed in the South, not here in bad things and things that are pretty inconsequential Michigan; a year after his death I left and came here. – or at least they appear that way. We may know how My brother was two years older than I, and we were some of them end, but not all. That is the way our very close. Still, to this day, my parents blame me lives work, and we can’t know how things are going for Adam’s death. to work out at any particular time. The reason they blame me is because my You need to stop beating yourself up about brother was asked – by my parents – to go and get this. Would your brother want you to suffer like me at a party. I was drunk, so I called home; that was this and be unforgiving of yourself? I would guess a promise I made with my parents – if I were ever not. I’m sorry your parents have placed the blame drunk, I wouldn’t drive. I had never before needed on you. Seems to me if they needed to place blame a ride home – or at least didn’t call – but this one somewhere, it would be directed at the drunk per- Saturday I got really smashed and I called for a ride son – the person who hit your brother’s car. Maybe home. That was my fault; no one forced all that booze your parents feel guilty for sending your brother out down my throat. I take complete responsibility for instead of going to pick you up themselves, as they myself in this. had originally agreed; but they can’t handle the guilty On the way to get me, my brother was killed feelings, so they transfer them onto you. by an on-coming vehicle crossing over into Adam’s In any case, you got drunk and did the right lane. That driver was drunk. Adam didn’t die im- thing by calling your parents – as your parent wished. mediately, but three days later he died in the hospital. Your brother ended up in the wrong place at the Since my brother’s death, I’ve been treated wrong time. That could have happened at any other like a killer by my parents; that’s why I left the area time and at any other place. It’s just life and how it and came to Michigan. (I had a friend here, so it works. As the bumper sticker states: “Shit happens.” seemed as good a place as any.) I feel like I not only I strongly recommend getting some counsel- lost my brother, but I lost my parents as well. It has ing for your tremendous loss and your guilt issues. been horribly hard to keep going, but thanks to my Good luck. I care. friends here I’m hanging on. I’m not sure how the rest of my family sees this, but I do have one aunt, Note from Jody: Recently I developed a “Dear at least, who is supportive of me, but she lives by Jody Valley” page on Facebook. I’d love to hear my parents. So it is not like she lives near me, but I from you. Visit Facebook/Dear Jody Valley. I have do get phone calls from her. “Discussion” groups going and am looking forward The biggest problem I have around all this is to adding others (feel free to add one yourself), so that I can’t forgive myself. I agree with my parents: make sure and check out the discussion topics. I’m I am responsible. If I hadn’t gotten drunk, if I hadn’t also in the process of writing a gay novel and will called my parents, if my brother hadn’t come for me, have a discussion group for other writers interested Adam would be alive today. I set the events in mo- in connecting. Looking forward to seeing you on tion. Now I wish I had never called, drove home on Facebook! my own; and if anyone were to get killed, it should Jody Valley spent 12 years as a clinical social have been me. worker. She worked with the LGBT community both I don’t have any questions for you, Jody, but I as a counselor and a workshop leader in the areas did want to warn others about drinking – and what of coming out, self-esteem and relationship issues. it could lead to. And, I guess, I wanted to just get The “Dear Jody” column appears weekly. Reach this off my chest. Jody at [email protected]. Letters may Tossed Out be edited for clarity and length.

28 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Rear View HOROSCOPES by Jack Fertig Reconsider your ambitions, Taurus!

Mercury in Virgo opposing Jupiter and Pisces helps to Bring In Terrific Critically Helpful Insights Needing Grounding. Check that acronym and monitor “your own” attitude. Mars is aggravating the situation, and Neptune offers little help. Double-check your motives and think ahead before speaking!

ARIES (March 20 – April Rather than worry over money, 19): Using sex or credit cards focus on what’s important. A as a release valve for anxiety playful, creative approach will and stress does nothing about point to new solutions. the causes, only staving off and building up the problem. SCORPIO (October 23 – Confide in a good friend or a November 21): Watch out for counselor to get to the root of the line between confidence and your problems. arrogance. If you don’t see it, your friends will be quick to tell TAURUS (April 20 – May you. Thank them for it! Look 20): Efforts to amuse your at how dreams and ideals from partner are likely to backfire. your childhood still influence Focus your wit on analyzing your view of the future. problems, not necessarily solving them. Also, reconsider SAGITTARIUS (November your ambitions. You won’t like 22 – December 20): Whatever your friends’ suggestions, but you hate about your career or use them as a springboard to your boss will get out, so spill it entirely new ideas. to a friend you can trust. Finding inspiration and freedom at home GEMINI (May 21- June 20): can strengthen your ambitions. Little satisfaction at home means Poetry and music can help. lots of room for improvement. Do what you can as a step CAPRICORN (December toward further amelioration 21 – January 19): Although later. New opportunities at work your critical acuity is razor are there but well hidden. Trust sharp, people will accept your your intuition to help find them. insights more if they are phrased gently. What good is being CANCER (June 21- July right if it only alienates people? 22): Your mouth may be There’s more than one way to getting ahead of you, and be right. Pay attention to others’ well-intentioned jest can come opinions. off pretty hard and mean. Be careful! There’s a time and AQUARIUS (January 20 place for talking nasty and – February 18): Financial rough. Find it and you can be changes can be rough, but don’t very popular! get swept up in the drama! Mediation can hone your LEO (July 23 – August 22): instincts, bringing out your Face problems in domestic best. Move quickly if you must, finances, but don’t push for but take at least enough time to solutions now. A loan is not the look ahead. answer. Pooling resources with your partner or a close friend PISCES (February 19 – may be, but approach that very March 19): Grand issues of slowly and carefully. politics, religion or philosophy can antagonize your partnership. VIRGO (August 23 – How much of that really September 22): Virgos are matters? Make a quiet escape supposed to be shy and sensible. together and focus on more Well, maybe next week. personal issues, or help out Remember to think before together at a charity event. speaking. Be careful not to reveal confidences or otherwise Jack Fertig, a professional humiliate yourself and your astrologer since 1977, is friends. Look for quiet ways to be helpful. Just being quiet may available for personal and be enough. business consultations in person in San Francisco, or online LIBRA (September 23 – everywhere. He can be reached October 22): Mental stress at 415-864-8302, through his can make you physically ill, website at www.starjack.com, but if that happens take it as a and by e-mail at QScopes@ warning, a blessing in disguise. qsyndicate.com.

Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 29 Rear View ETCETERA

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Across 40 Cut Down 29 Main idea 41 Catch sight of 30 “Days of Our ___ “ 1 Christmas threesome 1 “The Wizard of Oz” studio 42 More of the ad 31 Belief summary 5 Opening for guys that 2 Chicken-king link 45 Hacienda room 35 Direction away from NNE cruise 3 Autobiographer of Alice 47 Anka’s “___ Beso” 36 Bi plus one 10 Nemesis of Tinkerbell 4 Measure of manhood 48 Brief moments of love- 39 Letting 14 One side of Ed Wood 5 Long-eared leapers making? 41 Green stones 15 Honolulu hello 6 Position at sea 51 Hard-hitting Giant of leg- 43 Solemn vow 16 Gallup specialty 7 Lovers that you can’t get end 44 Objectifies, sexually 17 “Hairspray” composer 53 Put bubbles in over Shaiman 45 Frida Kahlo’s woman 55 End of the ad 8 Rupert Everett’s fellow 18 Give in kind 46 Astronaut Buzz 59 “Trick”’s Spelling 9 “Frida” star Salma 19 The 411 49 Flashy wheels 60 Like Diana 10 “Kiss of the ___ Woman” 20 Start of a Jacuzzi ad 50 Ogler in a gay bar, perhaps 61 Ass attachment? 11 McKellen movie “Gods 23 Sees eye to eye and ___ “ 51 Significant others 62 ’ Brockovich 25 TV host Steve 12 Subordinate Claus 52 “The Velvet Fog” 63 Edwin of Reagan’s Cabinet 28 “The Cat in the Hat” author 13 “Can’t Get It Out of My 53 One who graced the TV 64 De Matteo of “Desperate screen? 29 Pampering, briefly Head” band Housewives” 54 Come as far as 32 Where fruits hang around 21 Silence for Saint-Saens 65 Performed like Rufus 56 French Christmas 33 Abe Lincoln’s boy Wainwright 22 Experts in CPR 57 Watched intently 34 Summer tops 66 Kind of statesman 23 Hammett hound 58 Make less difficult to bear 37 “Breakfast on Pluto” actor 67 Put into piles 24 First, second or reverse Stephen 26 Hold onto 38 General vicinity 27 Key opening

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Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 31 Life COCKTAIL CHATTER by Ed Sikov Look, darling! A cocktail just for us! The puppies were in residence that and not-even-stifled laughs of skinny, gig- with outrage. “Robbie’s hot,” Sammy ob- weekend, which meant the rest of us gorged gling twinkies who didn’t have a quarter served. Jack threw a pillow at him. on calorie-free eye candy, since the boys of Craig’s wit. He dismissed them Bugs “Eureka!” Craig declared. “I have were untouchable. The best we could do Bunny-style as “maroons.” just invented a cocktail to celebrate the was smell them. We were all in the living room late on revelation that Robbie is an agent of Satan. Robbie had a distinct personal funk Saturday afternoon when Craig, as though I always thought there was something sus- that shifted a little from day to day: top by instinct, launched into one of his rou- picious about that flaming red hair. Gents? notes of salt water with middle notes of tines: a frightfully accurate imitation of a Who would like a Bitter Queen?” two rank men – Robbie and the previous certain glamorous 1950s song belter. He “What goes into a bitter queen?” Kyle night’s trick. Kyle, on the other hand, ran through bits from “It’s Always Fair asked innocently. always smelled faintly of Dr. Bronner’s Weather” and “Kismet,” and even the song “Nothing! That’s the problem!” Craig peppermint soap, which blended with his she sings (uncredited) in Bette Davis’s “Mr. batted back. naturally sweet disposition to create aro- Skeffington.” I was, as usual, enthralled Here’s Craig’s incredibly simple and matically the ideal playmate, soulmate, best and applauded at the end; Dan grinned with quite delicious recipe. We collectively add- friend, husband and ultimately survivor, joy. Craig’s Dolores Gray was phenomenal. ed the descriptive details during a slightly weeping over the grave even as he inherits He even claims to have coached Lypsinka. sodden dinner: the fortune. I had a major crush on him. Jack and Sammy were polite but clue- CNN’s prepster-geek reporter Jack less. Kyle said, with wide-eyed wonder, Fogg showed up, too, along with his glori- “Wow! You’re really good! Who was that? The Bitter Queen ous boyfriend, Sammy. Dan came straight She’s amazing!” Take last night’s martini glass with from the airport (conference in Cleveland) At which point Robbie stood up, the dregs still in it, and toss the dregs in the in a stressed, must-be-medicated state. And stretched dramatically to show off his chili- sink. Don’t rinse out the glass. Add a bit too with the angel of cocktail creation smiling red treasure trail, and announced, “Why do much Jameson Irish Whiskey and three or upon us, it was Craig’s weekend as well. bitter queens love clownish women from four dashes of Angostura Bitters. Plunk a If you found yourself in a Tarantino- old movies nobody else cares about? I’m single, pathetic ice cube into the glass. For designed slaughterhouse with a large too young for this. I won’t be back for din- the full effect, drink it alone. enough beam balance, you could hang ner.” And out the door he strolled. Variation: “The Bitter Old Queen”: Craig on one hook and the rest of us on the “Asshole,” said Kyle. Dan seethed. use Jameson 12-year Special Reserve. opposite end, and Craig would still remain Jack and Sammy kept their mouths shut; on the ground. Not really, but in the Pines, they probably agreed with Robbie but were Ed Sikov is the author of “Dark Victory: The Craig felt like (and frankly looked like) a too polite to say it. I was offended across Life of Bette Davis” and other books about mastodon. But he adored the beach and the board – for Craig, for old movies, for films and filmmakers. loved our house, so he braved the stares the late Dolores Gray – and was paralyzed

32 Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 Rear View Remembering Dennis Ashby This month, longtime Gold Coast employee Dennis Ashby, known to many as “Rita,” passed away. The exact date and 1 cause of death is unknown, but co-worker Eric Licht, who worked with Ashby for over 11 years at the Detroit club, told us: “Let’s just say that his body and soul were ‘out of alignment’ and his heart just couldn’t take it any longer.” Between The Lines interviewed Ashby, a Utica native, in mid-2008 about doing drag, making the best Long Island and his dedica- tion to working in gay bars, which he did for over 40 years. “I’ll keep working as long as I possibly can,” he told us. “It keeps me in touch with the community and keeps me in a younger frame of mind. After all, it beats being a greeter at Meijer.”

1. Dennis Ashby at Gold Coast (Photo: An- drew Potter) 2. Dennis (center) with Gold Coast staff 3. Dennis and Nickki (Photos: Danielle) 2 3

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Between The Lines • September 30, 2010 33 Rear View DEEP INSIDE HOLLYWOOD by Romeo San Vicente Schumacher reteams with Cage and Kidman for ‘Trespass’ Gay director Joel Schumacher didn’t exactly set the world on fire with his rich- kids-on-drugs melodrama “Twelve” this year – even if it did get him his first invitation to Sundance. But the filmmaker is back on familiar ground in his next project, working Hilary Swank. Photo: Fox Searchlight with big stars on what sounds like a standard- issue thriller (hey, you’re good at what you’re plays the inheritor of a spacious New York of 2011’s most hotly anticipated imports. good at). Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman apartment who, by the terms of the will, are set to star in Schumacher’s “Trespass” as has to lock himself in for 12 days. But is he a married couple who gets taken hostage and alone in there? And does it really matter that Hilary Swank faces life who discover that the situation reveals hidden it’s a piece of primo Manhattan real estate if cracks in their relationship. It’s a reunion, of he has to share it with a demon or psychotic after wartime sorts; Schumacher previously directed Cage person? Also starring Jamie Harrold (“Erin Hard-working lesbian producer Chris- in “8MM” and Kidman in “Batman Forever.” Brockovich”), “Occupant” could move into tine Vachon (“I’m Not There,” “Boys Don’t With shooting under way in Louisiana – the theaters as early as this winter. Cry”) always keeps a full dance card, and it cast also features “Twilight” heartthrob looks like one of the more notable projects Cam Gigandet, and breakout indie guy Ben coming from her is “Dreams of a Dying Mendelsohn from “Animal Kingdom” – French titans Deneuve Heart,” the directorial debut of writer “Trespass” is set to break and enter into Shawn Lawrence Otto (“House of Sand theaters next year. and Depardieu clash in and Fog”). This suspenseful drama stars Hilary Swank as an Iraq war veteran who Ozon’s ‘Potiche’ returns home to her husband (Josh Brolin) vacates François Ozon is one of the most ex- and daughter with her body in one piece citing younger directors working in France but her mind shaken by the experience. daytime for ‘Occupant’ today. And while he is gay and not hesitant to- Almost as soon as she arrives at the airport, The recent cancellation of “As the ward homo subject matter in movies like the she starts having visions of a ghostly boy World Turns” has meant the loss of one twisted “Criminal Lovers,” the tragic “Time in blue. Soon, she’s waking up screaming of daytime TV’s most incident-prone gay to Leave,” or the lush mystery-musical “8 and covered in blood, pictures of her are characters, Luke Synder, played by actor Van Women,” he’s an amazingly eclectic auteur. missing from the wall, and there’s a strange Hansis. He survived “ex-gay” therapy, the With “Potiche,” which recently premiered at Middle Eastern man in her house – who loss of a boyfriend in a train accident, expul- the Venice Film Festival, he makes his very seems to have designs on her daughter. sion from school for trying to rig a student first full-on comedy, and he does it with a cast Sounds chilling – and Swank is always at election and several dozen other moments of of French screen legends. Catherine Deneuve her best in a short haircut. Shooting starts soapy intrigue, all the while becoming half of stars as a bourgeois housewife who becomes in October, with “Dreams” set to haunt the a with Noah Mayer (played by a corporate executive, bringing her into far- big screen in 2012. Jake Silbermann, part of the pair collectively cical conflict with union organizer Gerard Romeo San Vicente likes to think of known as “Nuke” by hardcore fans). But with Depardieu. With supporting performances himself as a one-man USO tour. He can “ATWT” just a memory, Hansis is moving by Jérémie Renier (“Summer Hours”) and on to other challenges, namely the starring the darkly handsome Sergi Lopez (“Pan’s be reached care of this publication or at role in a new indie film, “Occupant.” He Labyrinth”), “Potiche” promises to be one [email protected].

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